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The recordings and presentations below represent a cross-section of talks from OxFID 2010.  Speakers are listed in the order in which they spoke.

Saturday 6th February

Carolyn Miller
Haiti: Constructing a Future from Crisis
Saturday 10.15 am

Download Carolyn's presentation here.  Listen to Carolyn's presentation here:

Jawahir Adam
Somalia: A New Development Approach Needed
Saturday 11.15 am

Somalia has been in crisis for the last 20 years due to internal conflicts, external interventions, and growing Islamic fundamentalism coupled with Piracy, that are all a serious threat not only to Somalia but to the entire Horn of Africa.  There is a desperate need for a new thinking and approach from within and outside to rescue this failed State.

Listen to Jawahir's presentation here:

The Somali Documentary Project (Doug Rutledge and Abdi Roble)
American Diasporic Communities and the Somali need to Flee Violence
Saturday 12.15 pm

The Somali Documentary Project examined the way in which Fortress Europe creates troubled diasporic communities at European borders and compare this with the thriving community of Minneapolis.  The Somali Documentary Project looked at the refugee camp in Dadaab, as well as struggling Somali communities in Greece and Malta.  It also considered the thriving Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  SDP then examined the educational system in Dadaab refugee camp and compare that with a series of East African charter schools, serving a total of 1300 students.

Listen to Doug's presentation here:

Anna Matveeva
Central Asia: Development as conflict prevention strategy?
Saturday 12.15 pm / 3.30 pm

Since independence in 1991, Central Asia survived a civil war in Tajikstan, violent power change in Kyrgyzstan and an anti-regime uprising in Uzbekistan.  Stability was restored and became the cornerstone of the current president's rule.  However, the way stability is ensured can turn into a conflict-generating factor, provoking further unrest and increasing an appeal of radical Islamist movements.  What response can the international community provide that would mitigate tensions?  Can development work as a conflict prevention strategy?

Listen to Anna's presentation here:

Nicholas Van Hear
Diaspora in conflict settings: from war-mongering to recovery and development?
Saturday 3.30 pm

'Engaging the diaspora' has become a mantra in the development field over the last ten years, increasingly taken up by states as well as international development agencies.  Most countries with sizeable diasporas now have such outreach policies.  However there are tensions between the priorities of states - which often wish to engage the diaspora for state-building or re-building - and diaspora members themselves, whose priorities are usually privately oriented, concerned with the survival and coping of their kin and community at home, and who may well distrust the state (often for good reasons).  This presentation looked at some of these dynamics of diaspora engagement in societies and communities embroiled in or emerging from conflict.

Download Nicholas' presentation here.  Listen to Nicholas' presentation here:

International Migration Policy
Kathleen Newland, Robin Cohen, Tim Finch and Nicholas Van Hear
Saturday 4.30 pm

Download Kathleen Newland's presentation here.  Download Robin Cohen's presentation here.  Listen to Saturday's panel discussion here:

Sunday 7th February

Inocencia Mata
Africa: The ethical challenge of recognising difference
Sunday 10.00 am / 11.00 am

Although reckoned by some academics, favouring the idea of developmental pragmatism, as likely to incite social conflict, Inocencia believes that linguistic and cultural diversity may be extremely important for promoting development.  In order to achieve a 'culture of peace', there is a need to come to grips with the ethical challenge of difference and diversity when drawing up social and cultural policies.  What, then is the African challenge?  How may countries take up the challenge of diversity with social peace in mind in promoting a 'culture of peace'?

Download Inocencia's presentation here.  Listen to Inocencia's presentation here:

Mary-Anne Ikoku
Anti-Corruption Reform in Nigeria: The role of the NEITI
Sunday 11.00 am

Corruption continues to be a challenge in all countries.  However, in Nigeria, this phenomenon has assumed frightening dimensions, with multiple manifestations and consequences for the socialeconomic and political well-being of its people.  While the whole country suffers the penalty for bad governance and corrupt leadership, the insurgency in the oil-rich Niger Delta region remains the best example of the cost of corruption in Nigeria, access to oil revenue being the key trigger.  Nigeria has an array of anti-corruption agencies and programmes, is signatory to several international conventions, and has embarked on several legislative agenda to bridge the gaps in the implementation of its anti-corruption reforms.  This presentation looks at the role of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in the anti-corruption fight in Nigeria.

Download Mary-Anne's presentation here.

Jane Chanaa
Getting into International Development
Sunday 11.00 am

What do you need to get into international development?  This session explored what kinds of experience, qualifications and motivations working in international development requires.  A short presentation followed by questions and discussion.

Download Jane's presentation here.

Zoe Marriage
Development in Crisis - A psychology of the conflict
Sunday 11.00 am / 3.15 pm

Development is in crisis: the goals of mainstream development are incompatible with the goals of many developing countries.  There has always been an element of conflict between the interests of donors and recipients of development aid, yet development - as an ideology, a policy and a host of projects and programmes - continues in familiar ways.  This talk draws attention to the psychological aspect of this situation, exploring how it is that this conflict is accommodated within the development industry and how the industry is - through this accommodation - implicated in exacerbating particular forms of insecurity in the global south.

Download Zoe's presentation here.  Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, we were only able to record half of Zoe's talk.  Please accept our apologies for the incovenience caused.  Listen to Zoe's presentation here:

Anke Hoeffler
The Economics of Post-Conflict States
Sunday 3.15 pm

'The Economics of Post-Conflict States' will provide an overview of the current situation and discuss the two main challenges post-conflict societies face: reconstruction and risk reduction.  Based on Anke's work with Paul Collier and Mans Soderbom, she argues that there is a peace dividend and that the international community can improve the chances of lasting peace by providing aid and peace keeping operations.

Download Anke's presentation here.