Leadership Studies with reference to Security & Development

King’s College London

PhD

In London

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Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

Overview
This exciting PhD programme offers supervision for MPhil/PhD research investigating the interaction between leadership and the security-development nexus, with a focus on developing countries. While development and security are strong fields of study in the UK, there is little in the way of dedicated academic study of the way these interact with leadership, particularly at the conceptual level. Yet there is latent acceptance of the significant role that leadership plays in both development and security processes and outcomes. This MPhil/PhD programme provides the academic space, support and training for students to interrogate these dynamics to produce knowledge that focuses on these issues. The African Leadership Centre is at the forefront of researching this nexus between Leadership, Security and Development.
Students can draw on academic expertise in a range of disciplines, and supervision may be provided from within the Institute or jointly with other faculty within the College. Staff research interests include:

Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin
• Discourses on the “edge” of global security
• Transnational security complexes
• Gender and Security
• The leadership role of regional organizations and the United Nations in sustaining peace
• Reframing narratives of peace and state building in Africa
Professor Abiodun Alao
• Emerging Powers and Global Leadership
• The Politics of Natural Resources Management
• Religious Radicalisation and Political Violence
• Politics, Security and International Relations in Africa
Dr. Eka Ikpe
• Developmental states
• Development planning
• Agriculture, mineral resources and industrialisation in development processes
• Regionalism and economic development
• The United Nations/ regional organisations and peacebuilding
• Women, peace and security
• Security sector governance, reform and transformation
Dr. Olaf Bachmann
• African Standby Force

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • Staff
  • Leadership
  • International
  • Global
  • University
  • Planning
  • Professor Training

Course programme

Research Profile
• Current number of academic staff: 4
• Current number of research students: 4
• Visiting Professors: 2
• Visiting Senior Research Fellows: 3
• Visiting Research Fellows: 3

Recent publications
• Security Sector Transformation in Africa
• Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe
• Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice
• Deep History and International Security: Social Conditions and Competition, Militancy and Violence in West Africa
• The Development Planning Era and Developmental Statehood: The Pursuit of Structural Transformation in Nigeria
• Islamic Radicalization and Political Violence in Nigeria
• The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: Problems and Prospects??
• Security in Post-Civil War Democratic Transitions in Africa
• Natural Resource Management and Human Security in Africa
• BRICS and African International Organisations

Current research areas and topics include the following
• Leadership and Peacebuilding: Conceptual relationships; and the role of outliers
• The political economy of peacebuilding in Africa
• Reframing narratives of peace and statebuilding in Africa: The role of political settlements [case studies: Ethiopia, Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Sierra Leone]
• China’s Role in African Development: transforming development lessons into development catalysts
• The practice of leadership: Analysing practitioners’ reflections on peacebuilding – Action research project with leading peacemakers in African conflicts
• Leadership and Security in Nigeria
• Resilience Innovation: Studying resilience to violence and insecurity in Africa

Partner organisations
• The African Leadership Centre is in close partnership with the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The institute has also partnered with the Social Science Research Council of New York, University of Pretoria South Africa and the University of Yaounde, Cameroon.
• The ALC also has long-term collaborations with:
• African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town
• African Security Sector Network (ASSN)
• African Union
• Centre for Policy Research and Dialogue in Ethiopia
• Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
• East African Community (EAC)
• Geneva Centre for Security Policy
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• International Peace Institute, New York
• Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
• Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern
• and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
• Southern African Development Community (SADC)
• United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations

In addition, the African Women’s Development Fund, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Open Society Institute in New York, have supported the ALC.

Joint PhD Award Programme:

Exciting opportunities are now available to undertake a Joint PhD Award programme in Leadership and Security Studies. This programme is awarded jointly by King’s College London and the University of Pretoria. This programme brings together expertise from both institutions in Leadership and Security studies to offer students a rich international research educational experience.

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