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Tim Allen

Tim Allen is Professor of Development Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He has carried out long-term field research in Sudan and Uganda, and has also researched in other African countries, including Botswana, Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He has written extensively on issues of healing and suffering in Africa, on war-damaged populations, on aid programmes and on wider issues of international development. He is also a broadcaster and has presented or contributed to numerous radio programmes for the Open University and the BBC, including a series of eight programmes about Uganda for the World Service (broadcast in 2002). In 2001 he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences for contributions in the application of anthropology to development issues.

His publications include the best selling textbook, Poverty and Development (edited with Alan Thomas, Oxford University Press), Divided Europeans (edited with John Eade, Kluwer), The Media of Conflict (edited with Jean Seaton, Zed Press), Culture and Global Change (edited with Tracey Skelton, Routledge), and two books on the repatriation and homecoming of African refugees. His most recent work includes articles on press censorship in war zones, and on health issues in Africa (notably Schistosomiasis and other 'neglected diseases', and the HIV/AIDS situation in parts of Sudan, Uganda and Botswana).

In 2005 he carried out a five month study on the experiences of people who have been abducted by the LRA or have been LRA combatants. That research has been published by USAID and UNICEF (A Hard Homecoming, Washington, 2006). He has also published a book on the ICC in Uganda (Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army (Zed Books, 2006). His most recent book is on Complex emergencies and Humanitarian Responses (London University, 2009).

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