• Funmi Olonisakin, Director
• Dylan Hendrickson, Senior Research Fellow
• Abiodun Alao, Senior Research Fellow
• Ekaette Ikpe, Research Associate
• Penda Diallo, Research Assistant
• Mirzokhid Karshiev, Research Assistant
• Nayanka Paquete Perdigao, Research Assistant
• Simon Mundy, Senior Associate Fellow
• Robert Picciotto, Visiting Professor

Email: perdigao.nayanka@kcl.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 207 848 7268

Fax: 44 (0)20 7848 2748

Address: Department of War Studies

King’s College London

Strand, London

WC2R 2LS, UK 

 Research interests:

• Nation building/ state formation/elites
• State fragility and Security Sector Reform
• Conflict and civil war in Africa
• Colonial legacies in Lusophone and Francophone Africa

Contact

Email: morten.hagen@kcl.ac.uk 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7268 
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2748

Address: Conflict, Security and Development Group

Department of War Studies, 
King's College London 
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS 

Current Research and Consultancy Projects

Morten is currently Senior Programme Coordinator with the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG). He previously worked as an office administrator with special responsibility for publications and public information at the Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD), an African-led NGO working on issues of democracy, development, and human and civil rights in West Africa. Morten Hagen is a Human Geographer with a Master in Social Sciences from the University of Oslo (1995) where he also studied political science. Before this he spent two years at one of the top business schools in Norway and two years in the Signal Corps of the Norwegian Army.

Areas of research and policy interest

• Conflict prevention.
• Human security.
• Policy Coherence. 
• Evaluation of public policies and programs. 

Educational and Professional Background

Robert (“Bob”) Picciotto’s career in development spans over 40 years. He served as Vice President for Corporate Planning and Budgeting at the World Bank and, for ten years, as Director-General, Evaluation reporting directly to the executive directors. He holds an aeronautical engineering degree from a Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique (a French “grande ecole”) and a graduate degree in development economics and public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton University).  He started his career in development at the International Finance Corporation where he worked as development bank specialist. In the World Bank, his operational assignments included agricultural economist in the New Delhi office, division chief of agricultural industries, assistant director for agriculture and rural development, and Project Director in three of the World Bank’s Regions.   

Contributions to research and policy

In World Bank operations, Robert Picciotto pioneered new approaches to development lending in South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa. As a corporate manager, he designed and implemented a comprehensive reform of corporate planning and budget policies under President Barber Conable. As Director General, Evaluation he broadened the oversight function of independent evaluation to address country strategies and operational policies in the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Insurance Guarantee Agency.   

Since his retirement from the World Bank Group in 2002, Robert Picciotto has advised the Council of Europe Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the International Fund for Agriculture Development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Norway's Agency for Development, the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and the International Development Committee of the House of Commons. He holds the position of Visiting Professor at Kings College, London, acts as trustee of the Oxford Policy Institute and sits on the council of the United Kingdom Evaluation Society and on the board of the European Evaluation Society. He also serves as a member of the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact which reports to the UK Secretary of State for International Development. 

Selected publications:  

Robert Picciotto, Funmi Olonisakin, Michael Clarke with a foreword by Sir Lawrence Freedman, Global Development and Human Security, Towards a Policy Agenda, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, Global Development Study no. 3, 2005.

Robert Picciotto, Charles Alao, Eka Ikpe, Martin Kimani and Roger Slade, Striking a New Balance, Donor Policy Coherence and Development Cooperation in Difficult Environments, Background Paper for the Senior Forum on Development Effectiveness in Fragile States, OECD, January 2005.

Robert Picciotto and Rachel Weaving, eds., Security and Development: Investing in Peace and Prosperity, London, Taylor and Francis, 2005.

Robert Picciotto, Fostering Development in a Global Economy, A Whole of Government Perspective, Paris, OECD, 2005 (Introduction and Chapter 5)

“The Value of Evaluation Standards: A Comparative Assessment”, Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation, Number 3, October, 2005, ISSN 1556-8180

“The Evaluation of Policy Coherence for Development”, Evaluation, Sage Publications, Volume 11, Number 3, July 2005

Robert Picciotto and Rachel Weaving, eds., Impact of Rich Countries’ Policies on Poor Countries: Towards a Level Playing Field in Development Cooperation.New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004.

“The Logic of Partnership”. In Evaluation and Development: The Partnership Dimension. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004.

“Towards a New Policy Framework for the Enlarged Europe: Investing in Growth and Modernization, Journal of European Integration, London, Carfax Publishing, December 2004.

“Facing Reality after Cancun: Continued Gridlock or Global Prosperity, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Washington D.C., Winter/Spring 2004.

“Evaluation and Accounting Standards”, Public Money and Management, Blackwell, Volume 24, Number 2, April 2004 

“L’Italia e i poveri del mondo: e tempo di ricominciare, Rassegna Italiana Valutazione, FrancoAngeli, Milano. December 2003.

“Scaling Up: A Development Strategy for the New Millennium”. Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Paris, 2003.

“The Logic of Mainstreaming”, Evaluation, Volume 8, Number 3, Sage Publications, 2002.

Development Cooperation and the Monterrey Challenge, Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2002.

Nagy Hanna and Robert Picciotto, eds. Making Development Work. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Robert Picciotto, Warren van Wicklin, and Edward Rice, eds., Involuntary Resettlement. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.

Osvaldo N. Feinstein and Robert Picciotto, eds. Evaluation and Poverty Reduction.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001.

“Towards an Economics of Evaluation”, Evaluation, Sage Publications, January 1999.

Robert Picciotto and Eduardo Wiesner, eds., Evaluation and Development: The Partnership Dimension. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

“Evaluation in the World Bank: Antecedents, Instruments and Concepts”. In E. Chelimsky and W. Shadish, eds., Evaluation for the 21^st Century. London and Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, 1997.

Robert Picciotto and Ray Rist, eds., Evaluation and Development. Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, Washington, DC, 1995. 

Research assistant

Email: mirzokhid.karshiev@kcl.ac.uk

Tel: 44 (0)20 7848 1984

Fax: 44 (0)20 7848 2748

Address: Department of War Studies

King’s College London

Strand, London

WC2R 2LS, UK 

•        security sector governance
•       post-conflict reconstruction
•        state-market nexus in developing countries with specialattention to Asia and Africa
•        politics and discourses of development and foreign aid

Mirzokhid is currently a Research Assistant with the Conflict Security and Development Group (CSDG), King’s College London. He studied International Relations (BA and MA) at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and International Political Economy (MA) at the University of Manchester, UK. Before joining CSDG, he was a Hansard Research Scholar at the International Development Select Committee of the UK Parliament, held various positions in government, business and non-profit sectors in Uzbekistan.

•  Abratha Doe
• Geeva Moodley
• Birikit Terefe
• Njoki Wamai

Contact

Email: penda.diallo@kcl.ac.uk

Tel:  +44 (0)207848 7262

Fax:  +44 (0)2078482748

Address: Conflict, Security and Development Group

School of Social Science & Public Policy

King's College London

138-142 Strand

London WC2R 2LS  

Areas of Interest 

• Conflict, Security and Development.
• Communication, security and peace building
• Corporate Social Responsibility , Public Relations and Advertising
• Youth and security in West Africa

Education and Professional Background

She is currently working as a research assistant with CSDG, on the DFID funded Youth Vulnerability and Exclusion Project. Penda Diallo has a MLitt in Peace and Conflict Studies from St Andrews University and a BA (Hons) in  Marketing Communication and Advertising from De Montfort University (Leicester). 

Penda has also been advocating for the improvement of issues affecting children in armed conflict. As a result of this she has spoken both at the EU and UN on issues related to children and armed conflict. Penda has worked for Helen Keller Worldwide in Guinea as a communication counsellor on their youth and adolescent programme (Feb-Sept03). She was also one of the Peer-Educator for the Institute of Labor and Community (New York, Jan-Aug02).

Contact

Email: wale.ismail@kcl.ac.uk

Tel:  +44 (0)207848 7169/1984

Fax:  +44 (0)2078482748

Conflict, Security and Development Group

School of Social Science & Public Policy

King's College London

138-142 Strand

London WC2R 2LS  

Areas of Interest

• Conflict, Security and Development.
• Radicalisation and Political Violence.
• Human Security and Peacebuilding.
• African Security.
• Youth.
• Security Sector Reform.
• Regional Institutions and Security in Africa.

Education and Professional Background

Olawale Ismail, BSc (OAU, Ife, Nigeria), MPhil (Cambridge, UK), PhD (Bradford, UK) is a Research Associate/Fellow at the Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG), King’s College London. Before now, he worked in research capacity at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the New York-based Social Science Research Council. He was also a Fellow of the Bucerius Institute on Global Governance, Hamburg; Laureate, CODESRIA’s Governance Institute, Dakar, Senegal; Fellow, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) program on “Youth and Globalization in Africa”; Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar; and Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society. 

Research Papers and Publications

• Olawale Ismail and Olonisakin, F (July 2008) “Nigeria and its Regional Settings” in CIDOB Yearbook 2008, Barcelona, Spain: CIDOB.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) “Participation and Capacity Building in Security Sector Reform” in Tim Donais (ed) DCAF Yearbook 2008/9, Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) “The US and Security Management in West Africa: A Case for Cooperative Intervention”, in Falola and Jalloh (eds) The US and West Africa: Interactions and Relations, USA: Uni. Of Rochester Press.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) “Power Elites, War and Post-War Reconstruction in Africa: Continuities, Changes and Paradoxes”, Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming September 2008) ‘Youth and Conflicts over Natural Resources in Africa’, in Adedeji (ed) African Conflict Monitor Book Project.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming October 2008) “West Africa and the Global Dynamics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: Between Change and Stability”, Monograph/Working Paper Series, Uppsala: Nordic African Institute programme on Post Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming October 2008) ‘Human Security and Institutional Responses in West Africa’, in Jaye (ed) ECOWAS and Security in West Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA.
• Olawale Ismail et al (forthcoming October 2008) Regimes and Post-war Reconstruction in Africa: A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Dakar: CODESRIA Comparative Research Network Paper series.
• Olawale Ismail (forthcoming December 2008) ‘Deconstructing Oluwole: Political Economy on the Margins of the State’, in Obadare and Adebanwi (eds) Encountering the State in Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.  
• Olawale Ismail & Alao, C. (2007) “Youth in the Interface of Development and Security”, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 7, No. 1 (April 2007): 3-26.
• Olawale Ismail (2005) ‘Child Soldiers and Civil Wars in West Africa’, in Sesay, A (ed) Civil Wars, Child Soldiers, and Post-Conflict Peace Building in West Africa, Nigeria: College Press for AFSTRAG.
• Olawale Ismail (2002) “Liberia’s Child Soldiers: Paying the Price of Neglect,” Journal of Conflict, Security, and Development, 2:2 (2002): 125-134.

Email:ekaette.ikpe@kcl.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 207 848 1984

Fax: +44 (0) 207 848 2748

Address:

Conflict Security and Development Group,
School of Social Science and Public Policy,
King’s College London,
Strand,
London,
WC2R 2LS

Areas of Research and Policy Interest

• The United Nations/ regional organisations (especially ECOWAS) peace and security
• Women, peace and security
• Security sector governance, reform and transformation
• Security and health
• The developmental state paradigm 
• The role of the state in development
• Agriculture and industrialisation in development processes

Educational and Professional background

Major Publications

Ikpe, E. (Forthcoming) Lessons for Nigeria from developmental states: The role of Agriculture in Structural Transformation in Fine, B., Saraswati, J. and D. Tavasci (eds) Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century, London: Pluto Press.

Olonisakin, F. and Ikpe, E. (Forthcoming) “The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: Problems and Prospects” in Curtis, D. and Dzinesa, G. (eds) Peacebuilding in Africa, Colombus: Ohio State University Press.

Olonisakin, F., Barnes, K. and Ikpe, E. (eds) (2011) Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice, London: Routledge.

Ikpe, E. (2011) “Nigeria and the implementation of UNSCR 1325” in Olonisakin, F., Barnes, K. and Ikpe E (eds) Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice, London: Routledge.

Olonisakin, F. and Ikpe, E. (2011) “Conclusion” in Olonisakin, F., Barnes, K. and Ikpe E (eds) Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice, London: Routledge.

Ikpe, E. (2011) “ECOWAS, Women and Security” in Olonisakin, F. and Okech, A. (eds) Women and Security Governance in Africa, Oxford: Pambazuka Press.

Ikpe, E. (2010) Security Sector Transformation beyond the State: the Economic Community of West African States in Bryden, A. and Olonisakin, F. (eds) Security Sector Transformation Africa, Geneva: Lit Verlag.

Olonisakin, F. with Ikpe, E. and Badong, P. (2009) “The Future of Security and Justice for the Poor: A ‘Blue-Sky’ Think Piece”, prepared for UK Department for International Development, CSDG Policy Studies Papers No. 21.

Ikpe, E. (2008) “The Relevance of the Developmental State Paradigm in an Era of Globalisation” Paper delivered at International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) Workshop, Procida, Italy, September 2008.

Ikpe, E. (2008) “The Africa EU-Africa Strategy: The Reality of Treating Africa as One”, CSDG Comments on Africa No. 4.

Ikpe, E. (2008) Enhancing Oversight of the Security Budgeting Process: Training Seminar for Liberia's Legislators and Security Agencies December 2008 CSDG Paper No. 18.

Ikpe, E. (2008) Enhancing Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector: Training Seminar on Comparative Experiences of SSR January 2008 CSDG Paper No. 10.

Ikpe, E. (2007) “Challenging the Discourse on Fragile States”, Conflict, Security and Development Journal, 7:1.

Ikpe, E. (2007) Enhancing Capacity for Security Sector Governance and Oversight: Training Seminar for Liberia's Parliamentarians October 2007 CSDG Paper No. 9.

Ikpe, E. (2007) Enhancing the Security Oversight Role of Liberia's Parliamentarians: Findings of an Interactive Needs Assessment  June 2007 CSDG Paper No. 8.

Picciotto, R., Alao, C., Ikpe, E., Kimani, M. and Slade, R. (2005) “Striking a new balance: Donor Policy Coherence and Development Cooperation in Difficult Environments” Background paper commissioned by the Learning and Advisory Process of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, January 2005 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/31/62/34252747.pdf

Ikpe, E. (2005) Study of Linkages from the MDGs to Country Implementation in Health: Uganda and Rwanda Health, Nutrition and Population Discussion Paper: MDG Oriented Sector and Poverty Reductions Strategies by Mick Foster October 2005

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1095698140167/FosterMDGStrategiesFinal.pdf

Contact

E-mail: simon.mundy@kcl.ac.uk

Areas of Interest:

• Cultural policy and conflict matters
• Europe’s relations with the rest of the world, together with development issues in the UK Parliament