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Helene Maria Kyed

PhD, International Development Studies; MA Honours Social Anthropology
Project Researcher, research unit on Politics and development
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Personal CV

Expertise

Traditional authority in Mozambique in particular and Sub-Saharan Africa in general; post-conflict state formation, authority and citizenship; democratic decentralization and community participation; interactions between formal and informal justice enforcement institutions; community policing and internal security sector reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Selected projects and programmes

State formation and the role of traditional authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Legal pluralism and the interaction between formal and informal justice and security providers

Community policing, violence and order-making

Democratic decentralization, local politics and citizenship

Selected publications

The Politics of Legal Pluralism: state policies on legal pluralism and their local dynamics in Mozambique, Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, no. 59: 87-120. 2009.

Community policing in post-war Mozambique, Policing and Society, Vol. 9, No. 4: 354-371. 2009.

Introduction: Traditional Authority and Democratization in Africa. With L. Buur. In A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities. State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. by L. Buur and H. M.  Kyed. Palgrave. 2007.

State Vigilantes and Political Community on the Margins in Post-War Mozambique. In Global Vigilantes. Ed. by D. Pratten and A. Sen. London: Hurst and Co. 2007.

New Sites of Citizenship: Recognition of Traditional Authority and Group-based Citizenship in Mozambique. In Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 32, no. 3. 2006.

Selected commissioned work

2009 Commissioned study for UNDP/UNICEF/UNIFEM on “Informal Justice Systems”, with the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

2008 Consultancy for Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Review of Building Local Democracy in Mozambique.

2007 Consultancy for the Swiss Corporation. Evaluation of 10 years of humanitarian assistance to Angola.

2007 Consultancy for the World Bank on local governance, rights-based approaches and community development.

2005 Consultancy for Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke on the NGOs engagement in contexts of violent conflict. Desk study and field visit to Nepal.

Selected research related activities

2005 Lecturer on Module III Course Security and Development, Roskilde University.

2003 External lecturer at department for Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University. Regional theme I and II Southern Africa.

2003 Guest Researcher at Danish Institute for International Studies. Macarthur funded project on post-conflict reconstruction.

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