Allen, Tim


Professor Tim Allen  

Department

Position held

Justice and Security Research Programme

Research Director

Department of International Development

Professor in Development Anthropology, and Head of Department

Experience keywords:

justice and security in fragile and conflict-affected regions; ethnic conflict; neglected tropical diseases (especially Schistosomiasis and Lymphatic Filariasis); complex emergencies; the International Criminal Court; ethics of aid; role of the media in fragile and conflict-affected regions; the Lord's Resistance Army; forced migration; development aid and agencies; local conceptions of health and healing

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Professor Tim Allen has expertise in the fields of complex emergencies, ethnic conflict, forced migration, local conception of health and healing, East Africa (especially Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), development aid and agencies and ethics of aid.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Healthcare

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Uganda; Sudan; East Africa; Kenya; Africa

Languages:

Acholi (Uganda) [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; Ma'di [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6844

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Allen, Tim (2013) The Lord’s Resistance Army and the inner logic of violence. Zeitschrift für ethnologie, ISSN 0044-2666

2012

Allen, Tim and Parker, Melissa (2012) Conflicts and compromises?: experiences of doing anthropology at the interface of public policy. In: Fardon, Richard, (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. SAGE Publications published with the Association of Social Anthropology, pp. 184-195. ISBN 9781847875471

Allen, Tim and Storm, Laura (2012) Quests for therapy in northern Uganda: healing at Laropi revisited. Journal of Eastern African studies, 6 (1). pp. 22-46. ISSN 1753-1055

Allen, Tim and Parker, Melissa (2012) Will increased funding for neglected tropical diseases really make poverty history? The lancet, 379 (9821). pp. 1097-1098. ISSN 0140-6736

Schomerus, Mareike and Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen (2012) KONY 2012 and the prospects for change. Council on Foreign Relations

Allen, Tim (2012) The burning issue: parasites - enemy of the poor. The London School of Economics and Political Science

Parker, Melissa and Allen, Tim (2012) Will mass drug administration eliminate lymphatic filariasis? Evidence from Northern Coastal Tanzania. Journal of biosocial science, online pp. 1-29. ISSN 0021-9320

Parker, Melissa and Allen, Tim and Pearson, Georgina and Peach, Nichola and Flynn, Rachel and Rees, Nicholas (2012) Border parasites: schistosomiasis control among Uganda's fisherfolk. Journal of Eastern African studies, 6 (1). pp. 98-123. ISSN 1753-1055

2011

Schomerus, Mareike and Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen (2011) Obama takes on the LRA: why Washington sent troops to Central Africa. Council on Foreign Relations

Allen, Tim (2011) Is 'genocide' such a good idea? British journal of sociology, 62 (1). pp. 26-36. ISSN 0007-1315

Allen, Tim and Parker, Melissa (2011) The 'other diseases' of the millennium development goals: rhetoric and reality of free drug distribution to cure the poor's parasites. Third World quarterly, 32 (1). pp. 91-117. ISSN 0143-6597

2010

Allen, Tim (2010) Blood with roots. TSL Education Ltd

Allen, Tim and Laker, F. and Schomerus, Mareike and Porter, H. (2010) Postscript: the Lord's Resistance Army. In: Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen, (eds.) The Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781848135635

Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen (2010) Introduction: the Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality. In: Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen, (eds.) The Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781848135635

Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen, (eds.) (2010) The Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781848135635

Schomerus, Mareike and Allen, Tim (2010) Southern Sudan at odds with itself: dynamics of conflict and predicaments of peace. Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Allen, Tim (2010) Bitter Roots: the 'intervention' of Acholi traditional justice. In: Allen, Tim and Vlassenroot, Koen, (eds.) The Lord's Resistance Army: myth and reality. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781848135635

2008

Allen, Tim (2008) Ouganda: la justice traditionnelle est-elle une alternative viable à la Cour pénale internationale? Mouvements, 53 (1). pp. 118-124. ISSN 1776-2995

Parker, Melissa and Allen, Tim and Hastings, Julie (2008) Resisting control of neglected tropical diseases: dilemmas in the mass treatment of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in north-west Uganda. Journal of biosocial science, 40 (02). pp. 161-181. ISSN 0021-9320

2007

Allen, Tim (2007) Defending the ICC. Prospect Publishing Ltd.

Allen, Tim (2007) The international criminal court and the invention of traditional justice in northern Uganda. Politique Africaine, 107 pp. 147-166. ISSN 0244-7827

Allen, Tim (2007) Witchcraft, sexuality and HIV/AIDS among the Azande of Sudan. Journal of Eastern African studies, 1 (3). pp. 359-396. ISSN 1753-1055

2006

Schomerus, Mareike and Allen, Tim (2006) A hard homecoming: lessons learned from the reception center process in northern Uganda: an independent study. United States Agency for International Development / United Nations Children’s Fund, Washington, USA

Allen, Tim (2006) Trial justice: the international criminal court and the Lord’s resistance army. Zed Books, London. ISBN 1842777378

Allen, Tim (2006) AIDS and evidence: interrogating some Ugandan myths. Journal of biosocial science, 38 (1). pp. 7-28. ISSN 1469-7599

2005

Allen, Tim and Stremlau, Nicole (2005) Media policy, peace and state reconstruction. Crisis States Research Centre discussion papers, 8. Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Allen, Tim and Stremlau, N. (2005) Media policy, peace and state reconstruction. In: Hemer, Oscar and Tufte, Thomas, (eds.) Media and glocal change: rethinking communication for development. CLACSO/Nordicom, Göteborg, Sweden. ISBN 9789871183265

2004

Allen, Tim (2004) HIV/AIDS (policy issues). In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, pp. 316-319. ISBN 9780415253420

Allen, Tim (2004) UNICEF. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, pp. 712-713. ISBN 9780415253420

Allen, Tim (2004) UNHCR. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, pp. 716-717. ISBN 9780415253420

Allen, Tim (2004) UNDP. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, pp. 718-719. ISBN 9780415253420

Allen, Tim (2004) Red cross and red crescent. In: Forsyth, Tim, (ed.) Encyclopaedia of international development. Routledge, pp. 580-582. ISBN 9780415253420

Allen, Tim (2004) Introduction: why don't HIV/AIDS policies work? Journal of international development, 16 (8). pp. 1123-1127. ISSN 1099-1328

Allen, Tim and Heald, Suzette (2004) HIV/AIDS policy in Africa: what has worked in Uganda and what has failed in Botswana? Journal of international development, 16 (8). pp. 1141-1154. ISSN 0954-1748

2003

Allen, Tim (2003) Developed countries: policies and practices for development effectiveness. In: Development effectiveness report 2003: partnerships for results. UNDP, New York, USA, pp. 36-50.

2002

Allen, Tim and Ó Gráda, Cormac, (eds.) (2002) Famine demography: perspectives from past and present. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199251919

2000

Allen, Tim and Weinhold, Diana (2000) Dropping the debt for the new millenium: is it such a good idea? Journal of international development, 12 (6). pp. 857-875. ISSN 0954-1748

Thomas, Alan and Allen, Tim (2000) Introduction: re-framing development for the 21st century. Journal of international development, 12 (6). pp. 769-772. ISSN 0954-1748

Allen, Tim and Styan, David (2000) A right to interfere?: Bernard Kouchner and the new humanitarianism. Journal of international development, 12 (6). pp. 825-842. ISSN 0954-1748

Allen, Tim (2000) Understanding health: biomedicine and local knowledge in northern Uganda. In: Edmondson, Ricca and Kelleher, Cecily, (eds.) Health promotion: multi-discipline or new discipline. Irish Academic Press, Ireland, pp. 149-175. ISBN 9780716526575

Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan (2000) Preface: poverty and development into the 21st century. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198776260

Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan (2000) The new politics of identity. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 485-508. ISBN 9780198776260

Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan (2000) Taking culture seriously. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 443-468. ISBN 9780198776260

Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan (2000) A world at war. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 163-188. ISBN 9780198776260

Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan (2000) Agencies of development. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 189-218. ISBN 9780198776260

Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) (2000) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198776260

Allen, Tim and Chataway, Joanna (2000) Industrialization and development. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan, (eds.) Poverty and development into the 21st century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 509-532. ISBN 9780198776260

1999

Allen, Tim (1999) Perceptions of contemporary war. In: Allen, Tim and Seaton, Jean, (eds.) The media of conflict: war reporting and representations of ethnic violence. Zed Books, London, pp. 11-42. ISBN 9781856495707

Allen, Tim and Skelton, T, (eds.) (1999) Culture and global change. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415139168

Allen, Tim and Eade, John (1999) Understanding ethnicity. In: Allen, Tim and Eade, John, (eds.) Divided Europeans: understanding ethnicities in conflict. Kluwer, Leiden, pp. 11-40. ISBN 9789041112132

Allen, Tim and Eade, John (1999) Ethnicity. In: Culture and global change. Routledge, London, pp. 145-156. ISBN 9780415139175

Allen, Tim and Eade, John, (eds.) (1999) Divided europeans: understanding ethnicities in conflict. Martinus Nijhoff Publishing. ISBN 9789041112132

Allen, Tim and Seaton, J, (eds.) (1999) The media of conflict: war reporting and representations of ethnic violence. Zed Books. ISBN 9781856495707

1996

Allen, Tim (1996) International interventions in war zones. Contemporary politics, 2 (1). pp. 7-22. ISSN 1469-3631

Allen, Tim War, genocide, and aid: the genocide in Rwanda. In: Sociologus, special edition. , pp. 177-201. ISBN 9783428099573

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