GCRF - Drugs and (dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war

首先，该项目将吸引从事冲突和战争向和平过渡的政治经济学研究的学者。这包括研究暴力问题的研究人员（如克里斯托弗·克莱默、斯塔西斯·卡瓦利斯、特奥·巴尔夫）、资源、国家建设和政治解决问题的研究人员（如乔纳森·迪·约翰、詹姆斯·普策尔、菲利普·勒比隆、道格拉斯·诺斯和穆斯塔克·汗）以及混合政治秩序的研究人员（如沃尔克·博格、凯特·米格尔）。这项研究将为这一文献提供一个比较的证据基础，探讨和平时期犯罪经济的长期存在，以及在建设和平、发展和打击非法经济的禁毒努力之间存在的复杂困境和权衡。这项研究将通过在主要的发展和政治期刊上发表，通过参与现有的研究网络（如政治解决方案研究方案）以及英国和国际会议来传播。其次，这项研究将使研究毒品和其他非法经济的学者受益，包括皮埃尔-阿诺·乔维、卡罗琳·诺德斯特龙、理查德·斯奈德、陈国林、弗朗西斯科·图米。该研究旨在通过创建一个创新的跨学科框架，将围绕毒品经济的动态概念化，从而重新定义毒品和发展领域，该框架结合了政治经济、生计、性别和公共卫生分析，以了解禁毒政策与解决国家脆弱性和贫困问题的同时努力之间存在的紧张关系。该项目处于有利地位，可以通过亚非社会科学院暴力、冲突和发展研究集群、亚非社会科学院新的腐败中心、伦敦政治经济学院IDEAS国际毒品政策项目、毒品和健康行为研究中心（CRDHB）和卫生与社会变革中心（ECOHOST）（两者均由亚非社会科学院主办）向不同学科的受众传播研究成果。第三，这项研究将加强最近的边境研究，重点关注国家边缘如何不仅仅反映了中心的权力关系，而且往往是新的政治和经济秩序的组成部分（例如黑斯廷斯·多南、托马斯·威尔逊、本尼迪克特·科尔夫、蒂莫西·雷梅克斯、保罗·纽金特、詹姆斯·斯科特和威廉·范·申德尔）。研究将通过展示边疆视角如何解决许多关于战争到和平过渡和国家建设的文献中对空间缺乏敏感性的问题，从而加强这一日益增长的文献体系，这些文献主要关注国家层面的政治解决方案。这项研究将通过向包括Geoforum和《边疆研究杂志》在内的目标期刊提交出版物，并通过与亚洲边疆研究网络、边疆研究协会和非洲边疆研究网络的互动，吸引受益者。第四，该项目将为开发在不安全地形中工作的新研究方法的文献（例如Gutierrez-Sanin， Mansfield, Ko-Lin Chin）提供重要贡献。该研究综合了深入的实地调查、地理信息系统空间图像和公共卫生分析，将展示方法上的创新，然后可将其适用于药物和受冲突影响环境方面的其他研究举措。这些发现将通过该项目的讲习班和与英国和南方研究人员的能力建设倡议传播。该项目旨在通过该项目提议的政策实验室和随后的改造非法经济研究联盟建立一个广泛的研究网络，加强英国和阿富汗、哥伦比亚和缅甸的南方研究人员在所有这些知识领域的联系。

First, the project will engage scholars working on the political economy of conflict and war to peace transitions. This includes researchers working on issues of violence (e.g. Christopher Cramer, Stathis Kalyvas, Teo Ballve), resources, statebuilding and political settlements (e.g. Jonathan Di John, James Putzel, Philippe Le Billon, Douglass North and Mushtaq Khan), and hybrid political orders (e.g. Volker Boege, Kate Meagher). The research will contribute to this literature by providing a comparative evidence base regarding the perpetuation of criminalised economies in peacetime and the complex dilemmas and trade-offs that exist between peacebuilding, development and counter narcotics efforts to tackle illicit economies. The research will be disseminated through publication in leading development and politics journals, through engagement with existing research networks (such as the Political Settlements Research Programme) and UK and international conferences.Second, the research will benefit scholars working on drugs and other illicit economies, including Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, Carolyn Nordstrom, Richard Snyder, Ko-Lin Chin, Francisco Thoumi. The research aims to redefine the field of drugs and development by generating an innovative, interdisciplinary framework for conceptualising the dynamics surrounding drug economies that combines political economy, livelihoods, gender, and public health analysis to understand the tensions that exist between counter-narcotics policies and concurrent efforts to address state fragility and poverty. The project is well-placed to disseminate research to audiences across different disciplines through the SOAS Violence, Conflict and Development research cluster, the new SOAS Corruption Centre, the LSE IDEAS International Drug Policy Project, the Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour (CRDHB) and The Centre for Health and Social Change (ECOHOST) (both hosted by the LSHTM).Third, the research will strengthen recent borderland studies scholarship focused on how state margins are not simply reflective of power relations at the centre, but are often constitutive of new political and economic orders (e.g. Hastings Donnan, Thomas Wilson, Benedikt Korf, Timothy Raeymaekers, Paul Nugent, James Scott and Willem van Schendel). Research will strengthen this growing body of literature by demonstrating how a borderlands perspective can address the lack of sensitivity to space in much of the literature on war to peace transitions and statebuilding, which focuses predominantly on national-level political settlements. The research will engage beneficiaries by submitting publications to targeted journals including Geoforum and Journal of Borderland Studies, and through interacting with the Asian Borderlands Research Network, the Association for Borderland Studies and the African Borderlands Research Network.Fourth, the project will provide an important contribution to the literature engaged with developing new research approaches for working in insecure terrain (e.g. Gutierrez-Sanin, Mansfield, Ko-Lin Chin). The research's integration of in-depth fieldwork, GIS spatial imagery and public health analysis will showcase methodological innovation that may then be adapted to other research initiatives in drugs and conflict-affected environments. These findings will be disseminated through the project's workshops and capacity building initiatives with UK-based and southern researchers.The project aims to strengthen the links between UK and southern researchers in Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar across all of these areas of knowledge by establishing an extensive research network through the project's proposed Policy Lab and subsequent Research Consortium for Transforming Illicit Economies.