Devon Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devon Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devon |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7580-8555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Memoirs of women-in-conflict
The limitations of conventional accounts of security and peacebuilding drawing upon the ‘expert’ knowledge of military elites, policymakers and civil society representatives have been widely recognized. This has led security and peacebuilding policymakers, including through the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda, to search for alternative forms of knowledge, such as memoirs, photographs or oral histories, that better reflect lived ex…
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi
The widespread enthusiasm for internationally-supported liberal statebuilding since the 1990s has become much more tempered, due in part to the mixed record of postwar liberal statebuilding. Over time, many postwar countries have adopted more authoritarian statebuilding trajectories, despite the fact that negotiated peace agreements tend to reflect liberal principles. This is often attributed to 'liberal' international actors encountering resista…
Transforming State Visions
How do the visions of the state articulated by armed movements during conflict change when they become political parties after war? We show that ideas about the state are often central to the strategies and direction of these new parties, but there is variation in the extent to which these ideas have changed. The first part of this article shows why a focus on former rebel parties provides valuable insights into the role of ideas in post-war poli…
The Limits of Resistance Ideologies? The CNDD-FDD and the Legacies of Governance in Burundi
Why is it that ruling parties with origins as rebel movements fighting against perceived injustices and exclusion often abandon the ideas and visions of state transformation that they had articulated when they were fighting? Using the case of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie–Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) in Burundi, this article shows that rather than experiencing an abrupt ideological change when the CND…
What Is Our Research For? Responsibility, Humility and the Production of Knowledge about Burundi
Political space in Burundi underwent a remarkable opening during the Burundian peace process and its immediate aftermath, which led to a rise in social science scholarship in Burundi. This space has increasingly narrowed, particularly since the crisis in 2015, presenting important challenges for social science scholars of Burundi. This changing political environment has consequences for the production of knowledge on Burundi. It is therefore time…
Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet, although Rwanda and Burundi share several important characteristics, their post-conflict social, political and economic trajectories have been different. This article argues that the nature of the ruling parties in Rwanda and Burundi is key…
China and the Insecurity of Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
This article analyses China's contemporary engagement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as an example of Chinese involvement in a resource-rich, conflict-affected country. Following a large ‘minerals for infrastructure’ agreement signed in 2008, China's activities in the DRC are often presented as an example of a departure from Western-led liberal peacebuilding and development, by providing ‘corrupt’ Congolese national elites with new…
The limits to statebuilding for peace in Africa
Much of the scholarship on peacebuilding in Africa assumes that building – or reconstructing – the state is a critical task. Competition over state resources was often an element fuelling hostilities and typically countries emerging from conflict have a weak or fractured state apparatus. It is therefore not surprising that peacebuilding programmes and initiatives have focused on state reconstruction and governance. The peacebuilding as statebuild…
Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key …
Broadcasting Peace
This paper explores the possibilities and challenges of local media to contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding. Many donors are involved in local media post-conflict peace building projects, but there has been relatively little attempt to situate these activities into an overall peacebuilding framework, or to systematically evaluate their success. This paper looks at some of the literature on local media and development to uncover the possibili…
Transforming State Visions
How do the visions of the state articulated by armed movements during conflict change when they become political parties after war? We show that ideas about the state are often central to the strategies and direction of these new parties, but there is variation in the extent to which these ideas have changed. The first part of this article shows why a focus on former rebel parties provides valuable insights into the role of ideas in post-war poli…
The Limits of Resistance Ideologies? The CNDD-FDD and the Legacies of Governance in Burundi
Why is it that ruling parties with origins as rebel movements fighting against perceived injustices and exclusion often abandon the ideas and visions of state transformation that they had articulated when they were fighting? Using the case of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie–Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) in Burundi, this article shows that rather than experiencing an abrupt ideological change when the CND…
What Is Our Research For? Responsibility, Humility and the Production of Knowledge about Burundi
Political space in Burundi underwent a remarkable opening during the Burundian peace process and its immediate aftermath, which led to a rise in social science scholarship in Burundi. This space has increasingly narrowed, particularly since the crisis in 2015, presenting important challenges for social science scholars of Burundi. This changing political environment has consequences for the production of knowledge on Burundi. It is therefore time…
China and the Insecurity of Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
This article analyses China's contemporary engagement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as an example of Chinese involvement in a resource-rich, conflict-affected country. Following a large ‘minerals for infrastructure’ agreement signed in 2008, China's activities in the DRC are often presented as an example of a departure from Western-led liberal peacebuilding and development, by providing ‘corrupt’ Congolese national elites with new…
Memoirs of women-in-conflict
The limitations of conventional accounts of security and peacebuilding drawing upon the ‘expert’ knowledge of military elites, policymakers and civil society representatives have been widely recognized. This has led security and peacebuilding policymakers, including through the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda, to search for alternative forms of knowledge, such as memoirs, photographs or oral histories, that better reflect lived ex…
Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet, although Rwanda and Burundi share several important characteristics, their post-conflict social, political and economic trajectories have been different. This article argues that the nature of the ruling parties in Rwanda and Burundi is key…
The limits to statebuilding for peace in Africa
Much of the scholarship on peacebuilding in Africa assumes that building – or reconstructing – the state is a critical task. Competition over state resources was often an element fuelling hostilities and typically countries emerging from conflict have a weak or fractured state apparatus. It is therefore not surprising that peacebuilding programmes and initiatives have focused on state reconstruction and governance. The peacebuilding as statebuild…
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi
The widespread enthusiasm for internationally-supported liberal statebuilding since the 1990s has become much more tempered, due in part to the mixed record of postwar liberal statebuilding. Over time, many postwar countries have adopted more authoritarian statebuilding trajectories, despite the fact that negotiated peace agreements tend to reflect liberal principles. This is often attributed to 'liberal' international actors encountering resista…
Broadcasting Peace
This paper explores the possibilities and challenges of local media to contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding. Many donors are involved in local media post-conflict peace building projects, but there has been relatively little attempt to situate these activities into an overall peacebuilding framework, or to systematically evaluate their success. This paper looks at some of the literature on local media and development to uncover the possibili…
Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key …
China and the Insecurity of Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
This article analyses China's contemporary engagement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as an example of Chinese involvement in a resource-rich, conflict-affected country. Following a large ‘minerals for infrastructure’ agreement signed in 2008, China's activities in the DRC are often presented as an example of a departure from Western-led liberal peacebuilding and development, by providing ‘corrupt’ Congolese national elites with new…
The limits to statebuilding for peace in Africa
Much of the scholarship on peacebuilding in Africa assumes that building – or reconstructing – the state is a critical task. Competition over state resources was often an element fuelling hostilities and typically countries emerging from conflict have a weak or fractured state apparatus. It is therefore not surprising that peacebuilding programmes and initiatives have focused on state reconstruction and governance. The peacebuilding as statebuild…
Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet, although Rwanda and Burundi share several important characteristics, their post-conflict social, political and economic trajectories have been different. This article argues that the nature of the ruling parties in Rwanda and Burundi is key…
Transforming State Visions
How do the visions of the state articulated by armed movements during conflict change when they become political parties after war? We show that ideas about the state are often central to the strategies and direction of these new parties, but there is variation in the extent to which these ideas have changed. The first part of this article shows why a focus on former rebel parties provides valuable insights into the role of ideas in post-war poli…
The Limits of Resistance Ideologies? The CNDD-FDD and the Legacies of Governance in Burundi
Why is it that ruling parties with origins as rebel movements fighting against perceived injustices and exclusion often abandon the ideas and visions of state transformation that they had articulated when they were fighting? Using the case of the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie–Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) in Burundi, this article shows that rather than experiencing an abrupt ideological change when the CND…
What Is Our Research For? Responsibility, Humility and the Production of Knowledge about Burundi
Political space in Burundi underwent a remarkable opening during the Burundian peace process and its immediate aftermath, which led to a rise in social science scholarship in Burundi. This space has increasingly narrowed, particularly since the crisis in 2015, presenting important challenges for social science scholars of Burundi. This changing political environment has consequences for the production of knowledge on Burundi. It is therefore time…
Postwar statebuilding in Burundi
The widespread enthusiasm for internationally-supported liberal statebuilding since the 1990s has become much more tempered, due in part to the mixed record of postwar liberal statebuilding. Over time, many postwar countries have adopted more authoritarian statebuilding trajectories, despite the fact that negotiated peace agreements tend to reflect liberal principles. This is often attributed to 'liberal' international actors encountering resista…
Memoirs of women-in-conflict
The limitations of conventional accounts of security and peacebuilding drawing upon the ‘expert’ knowledge of military elites, policymakers and civil society representatives have been widely recognized. This has led security and peacebuilding policymakers, including through the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda, to search for alternative forms of knowledge, such as memoirs, photographs or oral histories, that better reflect lived ex…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (7 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Peacebuilding (4 works)