Across conflict-affected settings, checkpoints are much more than barriers to movement. They are sites where authority is asserted, revenues are collected, and power is negotiated. This webinar launches the Development and Change special issue, The Politics of Passage: Checkpoints and Authority amidst Conflict, drawing on the Roadblocks and Revenues research series, a partnership between the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), and the Centre on Armed Groups (CAG).
From Myanmar to Colombia, spanning East India, Afghanistan, Iran and Venezuela, contributors will present new research on how checkpoints shape governance and everyday life in conflict contexts. The presentation will be followed by a discussion of the implications for policy and future research.
Meet the speakers:
The series’ co-editors:
- Vanessa van den Boogaard, ICTD Research Fellow and co-lead of the Informality and Tax programme
- Max Gallien, ICTD Research Fellow and co-lead of the Informality and Tax programme
- Peer Schouten, Senior Researcher, DIIS
- Shalaka Thakur, Postdoctoral researcher, DIIS
- Florian Weigand, Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups at ODI
The series’ contributors and focus countries:
- Shalaka Thakur, Northeast India
- Sarajuddin Isar, Afghanistan
- John Buchanan, Myanmar
- Jorge Mantilla, Colombia-Venezuela
- Gerard McCarthy and Kyle Nyana, Myanmar
- Peer Schouten, Abdirahman Edle, Jethro Norman, Somalia
- Peyman Zinati, Iran
Policy discussants:
- Laura Saavedra-Lux, Research Associate, UNU-WIDER
- Jonathan Somer, Legal Advisor, Danish Red Cross
Watch the recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCt9bSujV2E
