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Political Ecologies of Loss Human-Elephant Conflict Amidst (Counter-) Insurgency, Famine and Climate Change in Karamoja

Global Diasporic Healthscapes in the Post-Covid World Learning from UK Ugandan Diaspora

Misaligned public policy? Understanding the disconnect between popular demands and policy-makers in Post-revolutionary Sudan

Uganda's Resistance Councils Researching the origins of local, democratic governance

The Family Land Project, Acholiland The governance processes of clans and families in northern Uganda

Ordinary life in an emergency Beyond global health

Contested Lands The production of political authority, territory and citizenship in Eastern DRC

Safety of Strangers Understanding the Realities of Humanitarian Protection

Legislative policymaking Unpacking the public authority spaces for strengthening legislative policymaking capacities in Kenya

Grassroots organising and protection in Kenya and Uganda The complex relationships in the chain of protection

Unwanted Strangers Ethnographies of bordering, deservingness and resilience among Ukrainian Roma refugees in Poland

Navigating the public space Armed groups as public authorities in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Stigma in a post-Covid-19 world Ethnographies of health among Roma communities in the United Kingdom

Preparedness and responses to health threats Assessing the manifestation of power structures of an authoritarian regime in Uganda

Complex political economy of diaspora return and investment in post-war states State (dis)assembly and development politics

Hunger and human dignity The politics of hunger courts in South Sudan

Family politics as public authority Familial authority and governance in post-Ebola Sierra Leone

Public authority, resilience and mobility South Sudanese in a Uganda refugee settlement

Understanding legitimacy in post-revolutionary Sudan Western donors, class interests and moral populism

Militarising humanitarian assistance during epidemic outbreaks Post-conflict settings in Sierra Leone

Justice in transition? Justice and accountability in northern Uganda

Public authority and nature-society relations The politics of nature conservation in eastern DRC

With or against the flow Water governance in Goma, DRC

Arbitrary governance and modern authoritarianism Public authority in Uganda

Vernacular approaches to land holding Research in Acholi, Northern Uganda

Expertise: LSE researchers working on Africa

Blog: Research on public authority and international development

Trajectories of Displacement Social repair after mass displacement in Northern Uganda

Ebola: Understanding recent outbreaks

CPAID: Key questions in public authority