Conflict Zone from the LSE Podcast
1) S3 Ep5: Ukraine and Russia: who is winning on the economic front?
In this special episode, Dr Luke Cooper, the director of our Ukraine research programme sits down with the host to unpack how the war in Ukraine is transofrming state capacity, fuelling economic stren...Show More
2) S3 Ep5: Ukraine in 2025 - what now?
With the return of Donald Trump in the White House – and his insistence that Kyiv and Moscow strike a peace deal “in 24 hours – huge uncertainty now hangs over the future of Ukraine’s democracy and fr...Show More
3) S3 Ep4: Fragmentation of fragile peace: Political Marketplace in Ethiopia
The outlook on lasting peace in Ethiopia has been grim since the cessation of active hostilities in November of last year. A peace agreement between the Tigray’s People Liberation Front, or the TPLF, ...Show More
4) S3 Ep3: State Collapse and the Shrinking of Civic Space under the Taliban: The Politics of Knowledge in Afghanistan
In the aftermath of the Republic’s collapse, a lack of shared understanding of policy priorities and effective civic interventions is impeding development of pathways toward stability for Afghanistan....Show More
5) S3 Ep2: From the Revolution of Dignity to Full-Scale War: Civic Resistance in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is an ‘axial event’ in twenty-first century history, in which the agency of Ukrainians will have, one way or another, a tremendous impact on the future of global security. From Ukra...Show More
6) S3 Ep1: Where are Our Mangoes? Local-driven Contestation of Predatory Practices in South Sudan’s Resource Extraction
In slightly more than a decade of independence, South Sudan has endured civil war and a shaky peace agreement that leaves over 11 million South Sudanese yearning for the a less violent future. Devasta...Show More
7) S2 Ep5: The logics of conflict in the DRC: from the mineral to the checkpoint economy
An investigation into a changing political economy
8) S2 Ep4: Decolonising conflict research in the Global South: reflections and dialogues
Lessons from the Silent Voices Bukavu project
9) S2 Ep3: What happens when the oil runs out? Traumatic decarbonisation in South Sudan
South Sudan in the face of the global crisis and transition
S2 Ep3: What happens when the oil runs out? Traumatic decarbonisation in South Sudan
41:17 | Mar 17th, 2021
10) S2 Ep2: Investigating the oil rush in Somalia
Dangers and opportunities for development