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Doing business in fragile states - April 2019 policy seminar at DIIS

Offloaded tire trucks in Berbera port, Somaliland.

© Tobias Hagmann (2015)

The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) hosts an international policy seminar entitled ‘Doing business in fragile states: local and global perspectives’, bringing together international researchers, consultants and development professionals to discuss select issues, problems and opportunities of doing business in fragile and conflict affected states. With important exceptions, multinational corporations rarely invest or become active in fragile states. Instead commodities of all sorts are marketed, transported, insured and protected by local and transnational traders in spite of political instability. How do these actors operate? What is their relation to the state? And can external actors support their business? The seminar is organized by the collaborative GOVSEA development research project funded by Danida and takes place in Copenhagen on 23 April 2019.

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3rd GOVSEA annual meeting Ethiopia

The GOVSEA project team held its third annual meeting in Adama, Ethiopia from 9 to 11 October, 2017. Our MA, PhD and senior researchers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Somaliland and Denmark made considerable progress, presenting case studies and work in progress. We also discussed curren literaure and started developing more comparative analysis. The Forum for Social Studies hosted this productive gathering and we are indebted to them!

GOVSEA annual meeting participants, so many males!

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2nd GOVSEA annual meeting in Nairobi - December 2016

GOVSEA PhD students and senior researchers from Denmark, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland met for the second annual meeting at the University of Nairobi - Kebate campus from December 6 to 9, 2016. We presented and debated research findings and plans in the northern (Ethiopia-Somaliland) and southern (Kenya-Somalia) trade corridors, reflected on methodology and identified common themes and topics for future synthesis work. As is customary by now we also went on a short field trip to Eastleigh where we met with members of the business community, a shop owner and a real estate developer. Our host, the African Drylands Institute for Sustainability (ADIS) at the University of Nairobi did an excellent job and we are thankful for their work!

GOVSEA researchers pose with Ahmed Mohamed, secretary general of the Eastleigh Business District Association in front of Nomad Palace Hotel

©  Tobias Hagmann (2016)