Migration, Gender and Social Justice (MGSJ) – Leader: Thanh-Dam Truong

Funder: IDRC

This 3-year project has been funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and has involved several GGSJ members and affiliates, including Des Gasper, Jeff Handmaker, Sylvia Bergh and Karin Astrid Siegmann.

Eleven policy briefs have been produced and are available for free download from the project’s website and a book entitled Migration, Gender and Social (In)justice: Perspectives on Human Security will be published by Springer in the Spring of 2013.

Achieving Sustainable Demand for Governance – Leader: Wil Hout

Funder: AusAID

Wil Hout is currently finishing a manuscript for a jointly authored book, Political Economy and Aid Industry in Asia, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan later in 2013.

The book is written with Caroline Hughes, Jane Hutchison and Richard Robison, all based at the Asia Research Centre of Murdoch University, Australia. The book is the outcome of the research project ‘Achieving Sustainable Demand for Governance:
 Addressing Political Dimensions of Change’ that was funded by AusAID in 2008 through its Australian Development Research Awards programme.

Rethinking the Rule of Law – Leader: Karin Arts

Funder: Erasmus University Rotterdam

This collaborative research programme, and in particular the sub-programme on Decrypting the Public Power Paradigm, has been a collaborative effort with the Erasmus University School of Law (ESL).

GGSJ members Karin Arts, Karim Knio and Jeff Handmaker have been involved in this programme, which organized a conference on 24 and 25 June 2011 entitled "Irrelevant, Advisors or Decision-Makers? The Role of ‘Experts’ in International Decision-Making".

A book manuscript is currently being finalized, including contributions from Handmaker and Knio and edited by Karin Arts with ESL colleagues Ellen Hey, Monika Ambrus and Helena Raulus, to be published by Cambridge University Press.