Rajesh Venugopal

Research Officer, Political Economy of Post-Conflict Societies

Email: rajesh.venugopal@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)1865 281811

Research areas

Development and security, post-conflict reconstruction, liberal peacebuilding, nationalism, the politics of market reform, the politics of development in South Asia, particularly Sri Lanka.

Current research

PRSPs in post-conflict societies (for CRISE/Makerere workshop on post-conflict reconstruction, Kampala, April 2009).

Market Reforms Amidst Civil War: the Sri Lankan Experience

Cosmopolitan Capitalism and Sectarian Socialism: the Politics of Market Reform and the Failure of the Liberal Peace in Sri Lanka (manuscript in progress).

Recent publications

CRISE Working Paper 64: The Making of Sri Lanka’s Post-Conflict Economic Package and the Failure of the 2001-2004 Peace Process (2009), (forthcoming in edited volume on liberal peacebuilding, UNU Press 2009)

The Politics of Sri Lanka's Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP), (forthcoming in Modern Asian Studies)

Business for Peace, or Peace for Business? The Role of Corporate Peace Activism in the Rise and Fall of Sri Lanka’s Peace Process, (forthcoming in edited volume on Corporate Social Responsibility, Palgrave, exp. 2009).

"Tamil Nationalism in the Era of Neo-Liberalism: the Changing Global Parameters of Self-Determination and Statehood", (forthcoming in edited volume on Tamil nationalism, 2008).

Globalization, Violent Conflict and Self-Determination, (ed. with Valpy FitzGerald and Frances Stewart.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2006).

"The Global Dimensions of Conflict in Sri Lanka", in Valpy FitzGerald, France Stewart and Rajesh Venugopal (eds) Globalization, Violent Conflict and Self-Determination. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2006).

"Self-Determination in the Global Context", in Valpy FitzGerald, France Stewart and Rajesh Venugopal (eds) Globalization, Violent Conflict and Self-Determination. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2006)