Jaideep Guptes DPhil Research shortlisted for Global Development Awards and Medals 2007

Jaideep Gupte`s research paper entitled `Linking Urban Vulnerability, Infra-power and ‘Communal` Violence: extralegal security and policing in Nagpada, Mumbai` based on his ongoing DPhil research, has been shortlisted for a Medal at the Global Development Awards for 2007 in the category of `Rule of Law: Providing Security for Development`. The five finalists will be presenting their research at the 9th Annual Global Development Network Conference in Brisbane, Australia on 29-31 January 2008.

Jaideep`s research was partially supported by a Norman Chester grant at the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Jaideep Gupte is a DPhil (Politics) candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.