Fragile States Research Network (FSRN)

Overview

• The University of Ottawa has a critical mass of researchers across departments and faculties who are working on the contested subject of “fragile states.” Faculty from various units are addressing issues such as the challenges of justice in war-affected societies like Rwanda; the tensions between statutory and private security in other African states; and the dilemmas facing Canada in Afghanistan, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• The Fragile States Research Network, sponsored by CIPS, provides a platform for exchange and collaboration among University of Ottawa researchers, colleagues in other institutions, and policy officials, who are working on issues of state fragility.

Network Coordinators

• Stephen Baranyi, School of International Development and Global Studies
• Stephen Brown, School of Political Studies
• Christoph Zürcher, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

activities

Upcoming

• Susanna Campbell, Instituting Failure: Why Deviance Explains Peacebuilding Success, March 28, 2012

Past

• Mehmet Gurses, State Building and the Kurdish Issue in Postwar Iraq and Beyond, March 7, 2012
• Elections in Dangerous Places, Feb. 6, 2012
• Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Contradictions and Gaps, Oct. 12, 2011
• World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development, June 1, 2011
• The Security Development Nexus, May 2, 2011
• Urban violence in the Americas: Spaces and dilemmas for civil society, April 11, 2011
• Enjeux de l’État de droit et de la démocratie en RDC, April 7, 2011