David Keen

Professor at The London School of Economics and Political Science

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  • The London School of Economics and Political Science

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Biography

The London School of Economics and Political Science

David Keen received his doctorate from Oxford. His study of the political economy of famine was published by Princeton University Press as The Benefits of Famine. He is also the author of The Economic Functions of Violence in Civil Wars (Oxford University Press) and The Best of Enemies: Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (James Currey/Palgrave Macmillan, scheduled for 2004). He formerly worked as a researcher, consultant and journalist.

Expertise Details

Northern Iraq; Sierra Leone; Sudan; civil war; famine; human rights

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