Publications

War and Peace in Ukraine and in Gaza: A Comparative Analysis

This book interrogates the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza and asks whether meaningful distinctions can be made between just and unjust wars. The author analyses the global roots of both wars, including unresolved clashes of contending imperialisms, rooted in different variants of capitalism....

Robin Luckham

Co-production and Transformative Change: Lessons and Challenges

This article takes the case of the TAPESTRY project to look at how transformative change can be co-produced between local communities, researchers, community-based organisations and other actors. We lay out the process, challenges and tensions of doing co-produced research with marginalised...

Lyla Mehta & 7 others

Humanitarian and Social Protection Approaches to Inclusion

BASIC Research Working Paper 16

This paper explores how and how far considerations of inclusion are found in the policy and programming space described as the ‘humanitarian-social protection nexus’.

Executive Summary: Rapid Scoping Review: Anti-Rollback Actors and Strategies

Rapid Scoping Review Report

This report presents the findings of a rapid scoping review of queer and feminist organisations and social movements countering roll back in 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Türkiye)

Tessa Lewin & 3 others

Rapid Scoping Review: Anti-Rollback Actors and Strategies

Rapid Scoping Review Report

This report presents the findings of a rapid scoping review of queer and feminist organisations and social movements countering roll back in 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Türkiye)

Tessa Lewin & 3 others

Climate, Peace and Security: Cascading Risks and Conflict Prevention Tools

This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review is the second of two literature reviews scoping issues of state fragility, climate change, peacebuilding and security. The review draws on a mix of academic and grey literature. Where the first review (Rapid Evidence Review 229) explored definitions of fragility,...

Kathryn Cheeseman

The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Financial Crisis

BASIC Research Working Paper 42

This paper examines the structural causes of the financial collapse, the subsequent impact on Lebanon’s social protection systems, and the limitations of shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) frameworks in such a context.

Philip Proudfoot

Mining Legitimacy: Governing the Politics of Resource-Based Green Industrial Policy

IDS Working Paper 623

Green transitions are not only technological but deeply political. They rely on resources – land, minerals, water – mostly located in low- and middle-income countries, where extraction is increasingly contested. Drawing on evidence from Argentina and Chile, this paper examines how...

Anabel Marín

Santiago Cunial

Building Trust and Engagement: Vital to Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Community engagement is a crucial part of preparedness and response to health emergencies. It can enable more effective and equitable approaches by listening and responding to people’s needs, aspirations and priorities as much as communicating information to people and seeking to guide their...

Santiago Ripoll & 7 others

Community Engagement for Public Health in Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Community engagement, in public health practice, includes a wide range of activities to work with community members to promote well-being and achieve more equitable health outcomes. This kind of work was critical to pandemic preparedness and response during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cleveland has a...

Megan Schmidt-Sane & 2 others

Community Engagement for Public Health in Cleveland, Ohio, United States

This short report describes findings from the Cleveland, Ohio site of the ‘Community Engagement in Pandemic Preparedness (CEPP)’ project. The aim of this study was to yield practical and operationally relevant lessons from COVID-19 and ongoing work to improve community engagement (CE) and...

Megan Schmidt-Sane & 2 others

Strengthening Community and Community Engagement Infrastructure for Better Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level

This evidence brief draws on anthropological research in Ealing, a borough in Northwest London, to demonstrate how investing in community engagement infrastructure is fundamental to pandemic preparedness. While traditional preparedness often focuses on plans and protocols, the Ealing experience...

Tabitha Hrynick & 2 others