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Research Team

The project draws together expertise from a range of institutions and organisations in South Asia, the UK and Australia.

It is led by Prof. Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS, UK/ Melbourne, Aus).

The Co-Investigators are Dr. Vagisha Gunasekera (CEPA, Sri Lanka), Dr. Pratyoush Onta and Dr. Bhaskar Gautam (Martin Chautari, Nepal), and Dr. Oliver Walton (Bath, UK).

Markus Mayer (Programme Manager – South and South East Asia, International Alert) will lead the project’s engagement with policymakers and practitioners.

Dr. Patrick Meehan (SOAS) and Dr. Sharri Plonski (SOAS) are post-doctoral research associates working on the project.

 


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Project Summary


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Recent Post

  • Local elections in Nepal and Sri Lanka: empowering or undermining the margins?
    By Oliver Walton  
  • Pre-election vibrations in the Tarai
    Rajbiraj saw high security presence due to its image as a political hot spot  
  • Using literary comics to understand the role of borderland brokers in post-war transitions
  • The Centrality of the Margins: Brokering Borders and Borderlands in the age of Trump and Brexit
  • Systems in flux: constitution-making, patronage and post-war politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka
  • Borderlands, Brokers and War to Peace Transitions in Nepal and Sri Lanka

About Project

The project is carried out collaboratively by researchers and practitioners from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK), University of Bath (UK), Centre for Poverty Analysis (Sri Lanka), Martin Chautari (Nepal) and International Alert.

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