1. Institute

University of Sussex – Institute of Development Sussex (IDS)

2. Programme

MA in Poverty and Development

3. Course

Poverty, Violence and Conflict (2013-2014)

4. Reading List

Session 1: Causes and Triggers of violent conflict

• Collier, Paul and Hoeffler, Anke. 2004. Greed and Grievance in Civil War.

Session 2: The Impact of Violent Conflicts on Household Welfare and Human Capital

• Justino, Patricia. 2010. War and violence.
• Justino, Patricia. 2009. Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare.
• Wood, Elisabeth J. 2006. The Ethical Challenges of Field Research in Conflict Zones.

Session 3: Household-Level Coping Strategies During and After Violent Conflicts

• Justino, Patricia. 2009. Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare.
• Humphreys, Macartan & Jeremy Weinstein. 2008. Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War.

Session 4:  Local Institutional Change and Household Welfare During Violent Conflict

• Mampilly, Z. 2011. Introduction: Governing Rebels. in Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life During War.
• Justino, Patricia. 2013. Research and Policy Implications from a Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence and Development. in A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence and Development.

Session 5: Livelihoods and Conflict

• Collinson, Sarah. 2003. Power, Livelihoods and Conflict.
• Scoones, Ian. 2009. Livelihoods perspectives and rural development.
• De Waal, A. 2009. Do IDPs have an urban future?
• Lind, J. et al. 2012. Programming for secure livelihoods amid uncertainty: trends and directions in livelihoods, nutrition and food security in Darfur.
• UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan. 2010. Beyond emergency relief: longer-term trends and priorities for UN agencies in Darfur.

Session 6: Urban Violence

• Muggah, Robert. 2012. Researching the Urban Dilemma: Urbanization, Poverty and Violence.
• Gupte, Jaideep. 2012. What’s civil about intergroup violence? Five inadequacies of communal and ethnic constructs of urban riots.
• Gupte, Jaideep. 2012. The agency and governance of urban battlefields: How riots alter our understanding of adequate urban living.
• Gupte, Jaideep. 2012. Extralegal security and policing for the urban dispossessed in Mumbai. in Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities.

5. General Readings

Justino, Patricia. 2010. War and Poverty.

Blattman, C., and Miguel, E. 2010. Civil war.

6. Reference

Reading Lists Online – Institute of Development Studies (IDS)