CURRICULUM VITAE (December 2011) Lars Buur

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1 1 CURRICULUM VITAE (December 2011) Lars Buur Date of Birth November 15, 1963 Nationality Danish Languages Fluent Danish and English, Fair Portuguese and Spanish Marital Status Unmarried Present Position Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies Address Strandgade 56, DK-1401 Copenhagen Phone Fax Web Summary: Fifteen years research experience, through grants and assignments at research institutions. Additional experience includes research networks as part of programme development and implementation, commissioned research and consultancies, and public education at institutions of higher learning. Geographic Specialisation: Southern Africa with focus on Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Angola Thematic Research Specialisation The Political Economy of the New Poverty Agenda: Elites, Production and Poverty Long termed research project on post-conflict state formation and sovereignty in Southern Africa; Nation-state formation and truth and reconciliation technologies (South Africa) Leadership Experience Network coordinator, FSE sponsored research network DIIS, Copenhagen ( ) Board member, Danish Institute for International Studies ( ) Shop steward, DIIS, Copenhagen ( ) Programme Coordinator, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala ( ) Membership of Professional Associations African Studies Association, United Kingdom European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) External examiner at Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University; International Development, Roskilde University; and Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen. Current Network Collaborations and Institutional Association Research Associate, the Brooks World Poverty Institute. University of Manchester Research Associate. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa. Research Associate. Centro de Estudos de Democracia e Desenvolvimento (CEDE), Maputo, Mozambique Member. Danish Development Research Network (DDRN). Employment Record Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen.

2 Programme Coordinator, Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala, Sweden Researcher McArthur-funded project Centre for Development Research (3 months). 2001/3 Postdoctoral Project Researcher, Centre for Development Research Researcher, Centre for Development Research (3 months). 1998/00 Guest Researcher, Centre for Development Research. 1997/2000 PhD Researcher, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology. Aarhus University, Denmark. 1994/6 Research Assistant, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology. Aarhus University, Denmark. Educational Record 2000 PhD in Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark Cand. Phil. in Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark Bachelor in Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark. Current and Past Research Elites, Production and Poverty This 4 year comparative study of the political economy of the implementation of productive sector initiatives in five countries (Mozambique, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Bangladesh) has as its main objective to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the conditions under which ruling elite coalitions support for productive initiatives in poor countries occurs. The specific objective is to understand how and why elite coalitions support, oppose, or ignore the implementation of productive sector initiatives with a poverty reduction edge or is excluded from influencing them. Markets for Peace? Informal economic networks and political agency This is an interdisciplinary research network which was initiated in 2007 based on research funding from The Danish Research Agency/ FSE. The overall objective of the research network is to gain a better understanding of the role and significance of informal economic activities on political processes. Democratic decentralisation and public representation The project emanates from my post-doctoral research project ( ) and has been continued until It explores the consequences of recent decentralisation initiatives in Mozambique with regard to the constitution of different types of citizenship, forms of democratic organisation, public authority and kinds of conflict. Post-conflict state and extra-state forms of justice enforcement Emerging from my post-doctoral research, the study focused on the dynamics of post-conflict state formation in the justice sector and explored attempts to integrate extra-state forms of justice enforcement under the sovereign control of the state in South Africa. A book titled Patha-Patha: sovereign violence and vigilantism in the new South Africa is presently in the process of being prepared. Truth and Reconciliation technologies This was the basis of my doctoral research ( ) and was continued up until The study explored the technologies used to objectify and document human rights violations, the historical truth constructed in order to create a foundation for a common future, and the compensation claimed for those classified as victims.

3 3 Publications Editorial Experience Editor, working papers series Markets for Peace? Informal economic networks and political agency. DIIS, Copenhagen. (10 papers) Editor with Helene Maria Kyed: State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Dawn for Chiefs? New York: Palgrave. (241 pages) 2007 Editor with Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat: The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala and Cape Town: Nordic Africa Institute and Human Science Research Council. (284 pages) 2007 Editor with Terezinha da Silva and Helene Maria Kyed: State Recognition of Local Authorities and Public Participation: Experiences, Obstacles and Possibilities in Mozambique. Edited Anthology, Maputo: Kapicua Guest editor with Steffen Jensen. Special Issue: Everyday Policing in South Africa. African Studies 63(2), December Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals Buur, Lars with Carlota Mondlane and Obede Baloi (2011): Strategic privatisation: rehabilitating the Mozambican sugar industry. Review Of African Political Economy. Vol. 38(128): Albrecht, Peter, A. and Lars Buur (2009): An Uneasy Marriage: non-state actors and police reform. Policing & Society. Volume 19(4): Buur, Lars (2009): The Horror of the Mob: The Violence of Imagination in South Africa. Critique of Anthropology, Volume 29:1, Pp Buur, Lars (2008): Democracy & its Discontent: Vigilantism, Sovereignty and Human Rights in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, Volume 35: 118. Pp Buur, Lars (2006): Reordering society: Vigilantism and sovereign expressions in Port Elizabeth s townships. Development and Change, 37(4): Buur, Lars and Kyed, Helene Maria. (2006): Contested sources of authority: Re-claiming state sovereignty by formalising traditional authority in Mozambique. Development and Change, 37(4): Kyed, Helene Maria and Buur, Lars (2006): New Sites of Citizenship: Recognition of Traditional Authority and Group-based Citizenship in Mozambique. Journal of Southern African Studies, 32(3): Buur, Lars (2005): Sovereignty & Democratic Exclusion in the New South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 104/5: Buur, Lars and Jensen, Steffen (2004): Introduction: Vigilantism and the Policing of Everyday Life in South Africa. African Studies, 63(2): Jensen, Steffen and Buur, Lars (2004): Everyday Policing and the Occult: Notions of Witchcraft, Crime and the People. African Studies, 63(2): Buur, Lars (2003): Crime and Punishment on the Margins of the Post-Apartheid State. Anthropology and Humanism. 28(1): Buur, Lars (2002): Institutionalising the past: Information management and other methods of ordering the truth in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society, Folk, 44: Buur, Lars (2001): Making findings for the future: Representational order and redemption in the work of the TRC. Southern African Journal for Philosophy. 20(1): Buur, Lars (2000): Negotiating Ambivalence. Perspectives. Studies in Translatology, 8(3): Peer Reviewed Book Chapters Buur, Lars (2010): Xiconhoca: Mozambique s Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor. In Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly (eds.): Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State-Building. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (PENN Press). Pp

4 Buur, Lars (2010): Domesticating Sovereigns: The Changing Nature of Vigilante Groups in South Africa. In Thomas G. Kirsch and Tilo Grätz (eds.): Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa. Suffolk, UK and Rochester, USA: James Currey. Pp Buur, Lars (2009): The politics of gradualismo: popular participation and decentralised governance in Mozambique. In Olle Törnquist, Neil Webster, Kristian Stokke (eds.):rethinking Popular Representation. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK and New York: PalgraveMacmillan. P Buur, Lars (2007): Fluctuating personhood: Vigilantism and Human Rights in the Port Elizabeths townships. Davis Pratten and Atreyee Sen (Eds.): Global Vigilantes. London and New York: Hurst C. and Columbia University Press. P Buur, Lars and Helene Maria Kyed (2007): Traditional Authority in Mozambique: The Legible Space between State and Community. In Lars Buur and Helene Kyed (eds.): State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Dawn for Chiefs? Palgrave. Pp Kyed, Helene and Buur, Lars (2007): Introduction: Traditional Authority and Democratization in Africa. In Lars Buur and Helene Kyed (eds.): State Recognition and Democratization in Sub- Saharan Africa: A New Dawn for Chiefs? Palgrave. Pp Buur, Lars, Helene Kyed and Terezinha Silva (2007): Introduction: Perspectives on Decentralisation and Public Participation. In Lars Buur, Terezinha Silva and Helene Kyed (eds.): State Recognition of Local Authorities and Public Participation: Experiences, Obstacles and Possibilities in Mozambique. Edited Anthology, Maputo: Kapicua. Buur, Lars, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat (2007): Introduction: the security-development Nexus. In Buur, Lars, Jensen, Steffen and Stepputat, Finn (eds.): The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala and Cape Town: Nordic Africa Institute and Human Science Research Council. Pp Jensen, Steffen and Buur, Lars (2007): The National imperative: South Africanization, regional integration and mobile livelihoods. In Buur, Lars, Jensen, Steffen and Stepputat, Finn (eds.): The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala and Cape Town: Nordic Africa Institute and Human Science Research Council. Pp Buur, Lars (2007): The intertwined history of security and development: the case of developmental struggles in South Africa s townships. In Buur, Lars, Jensen, Steffen and Stepputat, Finn (eds.): The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Uppsala and Cape Town: Nordic Africa Institute and Human Science Research Council. Pp Buur, Lars (2007): Reordering society: Vigilantism and sovereign expressions in Port Elizabeth s townships. In Christian Lund (ed.): Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp Buur, Lars and Kyed, Helene Maria. (2007): Contested sources of authority: Re-claiming state sovereignty by formalising traditional authority in Mozambique. In Christian Lund (ed.): Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp Buur, Lars (2005): The sovereign outsourced: local justice and violence in Port Elizabeth. In Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat (eds.): Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Pp Buur, Lars (2003): In the name of the victims : The politics of compensation in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In Paul Gready (ed.): Political Transition: Politics and Cultures. London, Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press. Pp Buur, Lars (2002): Monumental Historical Memory: Managing Truth in the Everyday Work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In Deborah Posel & Graeme Simpson (eds.): Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand Press. Pp

5 5 Buur, Lars (2001): The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission - a technique of nation-state formation. In Thomas Blom Hansen & Finn Stepputat (eds.): States of Imagination. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Pp Other Relevant Publications Buur, Lars and Whitfield, Lindsay (2011) Engaging in productive sector development: comparisons between Mozambique and Ghana. Copenhagen Working Paper : Elites, Production and Poverty subseries, 2011(22): 1-35 ISBN: ( Buur, Lars and Flentø, Johnny (2011) Budget support lessons from post-conflict support to Mozambique. DIIS Policy Brief, Copenhagen ( Therkildsen, Ole and Buur, Lars (2010): Recurrent cost boom threatens Millennium Development Goals. DIIS Policy Brief, Copenhagen ( Buur, Lars with Obede Suarte Baloi (2009): The Mozambican PRSP initiative: moorings, usage and future. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen Working Paper : Elites, Production and Poverty subseries, 2009(35): ( Buur, Lars (2008): State consolidation in hostile post-conflict environments. DIIS Policy Brief: Fragile Situations. October 2008 ( Buur, Lars (2008): Report. Changing Governance Relations: Practical Experiences with District Planning in Muembe. Ibis-Mozambique, May Buur, Lars (2008): Report. Experiences with PESOD/OIIL Fund: Muembe and Mavago. Ibis- Mozambique, May Buur, Lars (2008): Report. Project Experiences and Lessons: Ibis s decentralised governance components in Muembe and Mavago. Ibis-Mozambique, May Buur, Lars (2007): Selvtægtsgrupper og Menneskerettigheder I Sydafrika. Den Ny Verden, 39(4): Kyed, Helene and Lars Buur (2007): Case Study. Huambo Province. Independent Evaluation: SDC Humanitarian Aid in Angola Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies. Buur, Lars (2007): The Market and Civil Society in Niassa Province. Field report elaborated for Ibis- Mozambique. April, Buur, Lars and Helene Maria Kyed (2006): State Recognition of Traditional Authority in Mozambique: the legible space between state and community. DIIS Working Paper no 2006/36: ( Kyed, Helene Maria and Buur, Lars (2006): Recognition and democratisation: New Roles for traditional leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa. DIIS Working Paper no 2006/11: 1-30 ( Buur, Lars and Ibis (2006): Lessons Learned from Community Development Project for the Districts of Muembe and Mavago. November, Maputo. Buur, Lars, (2005): Field Report. Background paper for Community Development Project for the Districts of Muembe and Mavago (DDMM). Danish Institute for International Studies. June Buur, Lars and Kyed, Helene (2005): State Recognition of Traditional Authority in Mozambique: The Nexus of Community Representation and State Assistance. Discussion Paper 28:5-30. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. (available on Buur, Lars and Harper, Eric (2002): Book Review. Horror Unmasked: Truth or Fiction? A review of A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (by Alex Boraine). In: Human Rights & Human Welfare. An International Review of Books and Other Publications. Volume 2(1): 1-12.

6 6 Buur, Lars (2001): Book Review. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (by Kenneth Christie). Journal of Refugee Studies. Volume 14(1): Buur, Lars (2001): Truth and Reconciliation. Briefing Paper. Aid Policy & Practice, Centre for Development Research. Copenhagen, Denmark. Buur, Lars (2001): Reconciliation, Conflict Resolution and Non-State Forms of Justice. In Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Africa. Copenhagen: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida. Pp Buur, Lars (2000): A review of how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission s management and structure impacted upon reconciliation and its outcome. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa. Buur, Lars (2000): Det (u)mulige projekt. NEO No. 3. Buur, Lars (1999): Når der er mere til oversættelse end sprog. Den Ny Verden 3: Buur, Lars (1998): As Christians We Forgive Them - Or do We? Report presented to The Danish Foreign Political Institute (DUPI), Copenhagen. Articles and Chapters in Progress Buur, Lars with Carlota Mondlane and Obede Baloi (2012): The White Gold: The role of Government and State in Rehabilitating the Sugar Industry in Mozambique. Approved: Journal of Development Studies. Buur, Lars and Whitfield, Lindsay (forthcoming) Engaging in productive sector development: comparisons between Mozambique and Ghana. To be submitted to European Journal for Development Research Buur, L. (2012 forthcoming) Mozambique Political Settlement Analysis: From a Dominant One- Party State towards Competitive Clientelism?. Forthcoming DIIS Working Paper. Buur, L. and Baloi, O. (2012 forthcoming) Case Study: semi-industrial fisheries in Mozambique. Forthcoming DIIS Working Paper Buur, Lars, Dennis Rodgers, Finn Stepputat and Christian Kordt Højbjerg (forthcoming): Markets for Peace? The Politics of informal Economic Action. Buur, Lars and Euclides Gonçalves (forthcoming): Rule by Exception: Decentralization, Development and Decrees in Mozambique. To be submitted to African Affairs. Buur, Lars (forthcoming): The truth of the amnesty process! An analysis of exchange relations in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (draft available). Buur, Lars (work in progress) Patha-Patha: sovereign violence and vigilantism in the new South Africa. Dissertations Buur, Lars (2000): Institutionalising truth: Victims, perpetrators and professionals in the everyday work of the SouthAfrican Truth and Reconciliation Commission. PhD Dissertation. Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University. Denmark. Buur, Lars (1996): Om at fordrive ondskaben, når livet leves videre: kommissionsarbejde og kollektiv erindring i Argentinas post-procestid. Cand. Phil. Dissertation Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University. Denmark. Other Relevant Qualifications and Experiences Research Grants 2007 Member of the consortium who received 4 years funding for Elites, Production and Poverty from The Danish Research Funding Agency - FFU year research network grant from The Danish Research Agency/ FSE 2003/4 Various grants from SIDA, Sweden year Postdoctoral Research grant from the Danish Council for Development year PhD Research grant from the Danish Council for Development Research 1997 Research grant, Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI)

7 7 Fieldwork Abroad 2008/11 Mozambique, Elites, Production and Poverty (the political economy of the new poverty agenda) (28 months) 2007 Mozambique: The Market and Civil Society in Niassa Province (3 weeks) 2007 Mozambique: Markets for Peace? Market places in the Mozambican transition to democracy (2 weeks) Mozambique: Markets for Peace? Market places in the Mozambican transition to democracy (1 month) Mozambique: decentralisation and popular representation in development (1 month) Mozambique: decentralisation and rural participation in districts planning (2 months) South Africa: local justice enforcement and implementation of prepaid water meters; Mozambique: traditional leaders and tax collection (3 ½ months) 2003 South Africa and Mozambique: follow up visits (1 month) Mozambique: Recognition of traditional leaders and national decentralisation policy processes in Sussundenga District, Manica Province, (7 months). 2001/2 South Africa: Democratisation in South Africa (3 ½ months) South Africa: Local forms of justice enforcement in Port Elizabeth (6 months) Mozambique: preparation for 2002 fieldwork (1 week) South Africa: outside the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (4½ months) 1998 South Africa: inside and outside the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (6 months) 1997/8 South Africa: inside and outside the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (13 months) South Africa: inside and outside the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1 month) 1994 Argentina: the Danish emigrant colony south of Buenos Aires (2 months). Consultancies and Commissioned Research Research consultancy. Exchange between the Royal Danish Embassy in Mozambique and Danish Institute for International Studies Institutional. (6 months) Research consultancy. Exchange between the Royal Danish Embassy in Mozambique and Danish Institute for International Studies Institutional. (6 months) Consultancy Ibis-Mozambique. Technical assistance to the Thematic Programme: Building Citizenship in Mozambique. (3 weeks) 2007 Consultancy Ibis-Mozambique. Common Lessons Learned: Ibis Decentralised Governance Components in Niassa Province (October) 2007 Independent Evaluation SDC Humanitarian Aid in Angola Case Study Hambo Province. (August-September) 2007 Consultancy for Ibis-Mozambique in Niassa Province: The Market and Civil Society in Niassa (March/April) 2006 Consultancy for Ibis-Mozambique Governacao, Participacao e Democracia preprogramme in Nampula and Niassa Provinces (October-November) 2006 Consultant for Ibis-Mozambique Governacao, Participacao e Democracia preprogramme in Maputo, Nampula and Niassa Provinces (May) 2005 Leading Consultant for Projecto de Desenvolvimento Comunitário dos distritos de Muembe e Mavago (DDMM) and the Education for Life in Rural Communities (ELDC) in Niassa Province (October/November)

8 Consultancy for Ibis-Mozambique on decentralization, state capacity and rural participation in Muembe and Mavago Districts, Province of Niassa, Mozambique (May/June) Literature review on Complex Forced Migration Emergencies and the Humanitarian Regime, case studies of Mozambique and East Timor, for McArthur-funded project. Centre for Development Research Briefing paper: Truth and Reconciliation for Aid Policy & Practice. Centre for Development Research. Copenhagen Review of relationship between management system and reconciliation in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa. Teaching and Supervision From 1997 to 2011 supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate student projects in the field of Ethnography and Anthropology, African Studies and Political Science: Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University; Department of Anthropology, Center for Africa Studies and Political Science, Copenhagen University, Denmark Master Candidate: Louise Smed, Microfinance in Mozambique. Examine April 27, PhD Panel: Vanessa Barolsky: The Moleleki Execution: A Radical Problem of Understanding. PhD in Sociology at Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg PhD Co-Supervisor, Violence and masculinity in the Danish Night-time Experience Economy: A study of partnership security governance and the political economy of public night-time violence Thomas Søgaard Jensen, Aarhus University PhD Co-Supervisor, Poverty Alleviation as a Platform for Elite Configuration (Benin)? Tina Maria Jensen, Roskilde University and DIIS PhD Co-supervisor, Non-State Actors in Sierra Leones Security Sector Reform. Peter Alexander Albrecht, Copenhagen Business School and DIIS PhD Guest Lector. Comparative Elite Studies. International Development Studies, Helsinki University. August 27, PhD Supervisor: Modes of Local Governance, Euclides Goncalves. Panel with Achille Mbembe (WISER) and Eric Worby (Wits University). University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg PhD Panel: France Bourgouin. The Young, the Wealthy, and the Restless: Trans- National Capitalist Elite Formation in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg. Lund, Sweden December 4, Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate student projects in the field of Ethnography and Anthropology, African Studies and Political Science: Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University; Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University, Denmark; Center for Africa Studies and Political Science, Copenhagen University, Denmark Teaching with Steffen Jensen (RCT). The South African Miracle? Bachelors and Graduate course, Political Science, Copenhagen University, Denmark Modern Anthropological Studies: Collective and Individual Memory. Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University. Denmark Teacher, private post-compulsory school. Subjects: Maths, Sports, English, and Social Sciences. Galtrup College School, Mors. Denmark. Supplementary Training Portuguese language, Maputo Mozambique (80 hours) Introductory course in Portuguese language, Maputo Mozambique (1 month). 1997/9 PhD training programme, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology. Aarhus University, Denmark.

9 Trainee service project: including a one month stay in Cape Town with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Aarhus University, Denmark Course in Rapid Rural Appraisal. Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology. Aarhus University, Denmark Two courses at Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina (6 months). Presentations abroad by Invitation 2011 Political settlement analysis Mozambique: from a weak authoritarian regime to competitive clientelism? Residency of the Danish Ambassador, Mozambique. May 20, Peoples Party and People s Representation. LSE, Crisis State Research Center (November) 2007 Hope and despair in the South African Townships: Vigilantism and violent moral policing. Anthropology and African Studies Oxford University (February) 2006 Domesticating Sovereigns. Nordic Scholar lecture, Edinburgh University (December) 2006 Democracy and its discontent. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg South Africa Expectations of Democracy and its discontent. German Anthropological Association, the University of Halle, Germany Developmental Contestation: The war on crime and the criminalisation of popular protest. Commonwealth Studies, University of London The truth of the amnesty process! Exchange relations in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Antwerp University The Sovereign Outsourced. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg South Africa Ceremonies of Recognition: Recuperating State and Tradition, in collaboration with Helene Maria Kyed. The Informal Decentralization Group of Donors in Mozambique. The UN Dispensary. Maputo, Mozambique State and Extra-State Forms of Justice Enforcement. Institute for Criminology. University of Cape Town, South Africa Reconciliation, Conflict Resolution and Non-State Forms of Justice. Danida International Conference. Maputo, Mozambique Institutionalising the Past. Department of Anthropology University of Cape Town Conflict and Consensus. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Bonn, Germany. Arranged Conferences, Panels, Workshops and Seminar Series (selected) 2011 EADI panel: Elites, production and poverty: a comparative study. York, September 19-22, Writers Workshop, Research Network, Markets for Peace? DIIS, Copenhagen. June 22-23, The Decentralised State: A contradiction in terms? Workshop 2. FAU conference, Bringing the State back in: New roles and responsibilities for the 21st Century State May, at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities, University of Lancashire, Preston. African Studies Association-UK. September 12, (with Helene Kyed) 2008 State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. June 18, (with Helene Kyed) Conceptualising Market and Political Agencies. Markets for Peace Network Workshop. DIIS, Copenhagen. June 25-27, Histories of Regulation and the Production of Informality. Markets for Peace Network workshop December 6-7, DIIS, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 Conceptualising Network/Chain and Comparison. Markets for Peace Network workshop April 16-17, DIIS, Copenhagen, Denmark

10 New roles for traditional leaders in resource mobilisation and rural development. Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies European Conference on African Studies June 29 - July 3, 2005, London, UK (with Helene Kyed) 2005 An assessment of Decentralisation Policy Decree 15/2000: Experiences, Obstacles and Possibilities. Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária. Maputo, Mozambique, May 2005 (with Helene Kyed and Terezinha da Silva) Conflicting Forms of Citizenship: Mapping the Effects of Changed Urban Modes of Governance in South Africa. Human Science Research Council, Port Elizabeth (with Janet Cherry) Cultures of Accountability. Topical Seminar Series. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden Ritualisation of the state: Neo-popular state rituals in Mozambique and South Africa.International workshop. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg (with Dr. Achille Mbembe) Prospects for collaboration between Mozambican and Nordic researchers. Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária Matola Norte, Maputo Mozambique (with Signe Arnfred and Ilda Lundin Security and Development: Critical Perspectives from South Africa. Research Forum. Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala, Sweden The South African democratic transition revisited: between pessimism and miracles. Research Forum. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala Sweden Senses of Right and Wrong. The Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. (with Preben Kaarsholm and Finn Stepputat) Vigilantism and the Policing of Everyday Life in South Africa. Wits Workshop on Law and Society (with Steffen Jensen). Discussant and Moderator 2006 Chair, Session 6, Theoretical Implications and Future Research. Workshop: To BEE or Not to BEE? South Africa s Black Economic Empowerment, Corporate Governance and the State in South Africa, June 26-27, DIIS Chair, Reforming the State. International Conference, Fragile States and Insecure People. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. June 9, Chair, New roles for traditional leaders in resource mobilisation and rural development: Expectations, obstacles and conflicts. Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies European Conference on African Studies June 29 - July 3, London, UK Chair, An assessment of Decentralisation policy Decree 15/2000: Experiences, Obstacles and Possibilities. Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária (CFJJ). Maputo, Mozambique, May Chair, Conflicting Forms of Citizenship: Mapping the Effects of Changed Urban Modes of Governance in South Africa. Human Science Research Council, Port Elizabeth Chair, Research Network, From Inequality to Insecurity: The Place of Crime and Violence in Development Thinking and Action. Danish Institute for International studies, Copenhagen September Chair, Research Forum: The South African democratic transition revisited: between pessimism and miracles. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, 18 December Chair, session on: Purposes and Dilemmas of Transitional Justice and Conceptualising Transitional Justice. PhD research workshop Senses of right and wrong. November 15. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen Chair, session on: State, Security and Democracy. International Conference: Rethinking Land, State and Citizenship through the Zimbabwe Crisis. Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, 4-5 September.

11 Chair, session on: Reflections on Reconciliation. International Conference: Cultures of Political Transition: Memory, Identity and Voice. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, September Discussant, session on: Towards a Culture of Reconciliation in the Millennium. Rosinante, DanChurch and Images of the World, Copenhagen, 9 August Chair, Session on: Truth, Art & Personal Testimony. International Conference: The TRC: Commissioning the Past, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, June Presentations at Selected Workshops, Conferences and Lectures Kjær, Mette and Lars Buur (2011): Elections, Coalitions and the influence of Ruling Elites. A comparative perspective on productive sector policy making in Sub-Saharan Africa: Poverty research programme seminar series, fall December 5, Buur, Lars (2011): Elites, Production and Poverty: between pockets of efficiency and elite capture. Presentation at Programme Committee, Royal Danish Embassy, Maputo. November 14, Buur, Lars (2011): EPP Synthesis Analysis for Mozambique: Between Pockets of Efficiency and Elite Capture. Elites, Production, Poverty research programme seminar series, fall October 26, DIIS, Copenhagen. Buur, Lars (2011): Engaging in productive sector development: Comparisons between Mozambique and Ghana. EADI panel: Elites, production and poverty: a comparative study. York, September 19-22, 2011 Buur, Lars and Whitfield, Lindsay (2011): Why and When African states engage in productive sector development: Comparisons between Mozambique and Ghana. ECAS Panel 69: Pockets of efficiency in the neo-patrimonial state: hotbeds for the return of the developmental state in Africa, Uppsala, Sweden, 15 June 2011 Buur, Lars with Carlota Mondlane and Obede Baloi. Political settlement analysis in Mozambique and its links to the rehabilitation of the sugar industry. Elites, Production, Poverty workshop January 2011, Kundushi Beach Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Buur, Lars (2010): The White Gold: The role of Government and State in Rehabilitating the Sugar Industry in Mozambique. African Studies Association, UK September, 2010, St Antony s College, University of Oxford. Buur, Lars (2009): Elites and the rehabilitation of the Mozambican sugar industry. Presented at UNU- WIDER conference: The Role of Elites in Economic Development June Helsinki, Finland Buur, Lars (2009): The Politics of Gradualismo: Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique FAU conference, Bringing the State back in: New roles and responsibilities for the 1st Century State May, at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Buur, Lars (2008) Participation, Decentralisation and Local Democracy in Mozambique. KEPA, Helsinki. August 25, Buur, Lars (2007): Informalising Democracy? Or Training to Become Formally Democratic? Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique. Norske Forening for Udviklingsforskning, Christian Michelsen Institute november Buur, Lars (2007): The development-security nexus: what is it and how do we approach it? Seminar: False Security? Rethinking State Sovereignty and Development. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg 26. September, 2007 Buur, Lars (2007): From traitors to symbols of peace: The shifting meaning of informal traders in Mozambique. Workshop Popular Governance or Criminalization? The Informal Economy and Institutional Change. African Studies Seminars St. Antony s College, Oxford on May 30, Buur, Lars (2007): Fragile State comments on World Bank Global Monitoring Report, Foreign Ministry seminar: 2015-Målene hvor langt er vi kommet? 26. april 2007 Eigtveds pakhus, Copenhagen.

12 Buur, Lars (2007) Fragile State comments on World Bank Global Monitoring Report, Foreign Ministry seminar: 2015-Målene hvor langt er vi kommet? 26. april 2007 Eigtveds pakhus, Copenhagen Buur, Lars (2006): Traders as Traitors. International conference: Treason and the Art of Politics: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. Edinburgh University, 7-9 December Buur, Lars (2006): When the People s Party knows what the people really need: Popular representation and decentralised governance in Mozambique. LPPD, Workshop Nijmegen, 26th 29th November Buur, Lars (2006): Demokrati og Danmarks rolle. Panel diskussion, International Debat, Institut for Statskundskab, København 21. November. Buur, Lars (2006): National truth commissions and local justice enforcement. Presented at Conflict management: A policy course under the auspice of Danida Fellowship Centre. November 10, Buur, Lars (2006): The Politics of Popular Representation and Decentralised Governance (Mozambique). Rethinking Popular Representation. Network of Contextual politics in Developing Countries. Ransvangen Hotel, Norway October Buur, Lars (2006): The Horror of the Mob: The Violence of Imagination in South Africa. European Association of Anthropologist s 9th Biennial conference, Bristol, UK, 18th-21st September Buur, Lars (2006): When the People s Party knows what the people really need: Popular representation and decentralised governance in Mozambique. African Studies Association s Biennial Conference, September 11 13, 2006, SOAS, London. Buur, Lars (2006): Inter-disciplinary approaches to the security-development nexus. PhD course for SADSEM research network, DIIS, Copenhagen 5-11 August Buur, Lars (2006): Sydafrikas sandheds- og forsoningskommission mellem kristendom og jura. Jørlunde Sommerhøjskole, June Buur, Lars (2006): Democracy and its discontent: Vigilantism, sovereignty and human rights in South Africa. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg South Africa. April Buur, Lars (2006): Expectations of democracy and its discontents: Vigilantism, human rights and law in Kwazakele Township. International conference, Security Beyond the State: The Privatization and Globalization of Security in Africa. Gregynog Hall. Newtown, Powys Wales, United Kingdom. April 19 21, 2006 Buur, Lars (2006): Vigilantism and Sovereign Expressions in South African townships. In panel: The Privatization of Security and North/South Relations. International Studies Association, San Diego (CA), US. March 22-25, Buur, Lars (2006): Nation-Building in South Africa. Guest Lecture Center for Africa Studies, Copenhagen University. March Buur, Lars and Finn Stepputat (2006): Trade, Informality and Regulation in Fragile States. Paper presented at Governance, Economic Policy and Public Administration (GEPPA) International Conference: Power, Politics and Change in Weak States, Schäffergaarden, Denmark. March 1-2, Buur, Lars (2006): Expectations of Democracy and its Discontent: Vigilantism, Community Policing and Human Rights in South Africa. Paper presented at: GEPPA/ IDS-RUC workshop Decentralization of Law and Order. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen March 7, Buur, Lars (2005): The South African Political Transition: between truth and reconciliation. Guest lecture, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University. 1 December Buur, Lars (2005): Developmental Participation and Democratic Exclusion. The Second LPPD Workshop: Strategies of the Poor in Local Politics. Research network Local Politics, Poverty and Decentralisation (LPPD), 27th 30th November Bornholm, Denmark. 12

13 Buur, Lars (2005): Expectations of Democracy and its discontent: Vigilantism, human rights and law in Kwazakele Township. The German Anthropological Association session on Vigilantes and local militia in Africa, October University of Halle, Germany. Buur, Lars (2005): The intertwined history of security and development: the case of developmental struggles in South Africa. EADI 2005 Conference, Bonn. September A. Regional Histories of Development and Security Buur, Lars (2005): Fluctuating personhood: Vigilantism, corporal punishment and order in the Port Elizabeths townships. Global Vigilantes, Friday 8 July Saturday 9 July Brighton. Kyed, Helene and Buur, Lars (2005): Between State and Community: The Role of Traditional Leaders in Tax Collection and Community Development in Mozambique. Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies European Conference on African Studies June 29 - July 3, 2005 at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK. Buur, Lars and Kyed, Helene (2005): State Recognition of Traditional Authority in Mozambique: the Nexus of Community Representation and State Assistance. An assessment of Decentralisation policy Decree 15/2000: Experiences, Obstacles and Possibilities Centro de Formação Jurídica e Judiciária (CFJJ). Rua de Mutateia, 1752, Bairrio Fomento. Matola Norte, Mozambique, May 2005 Kyed, Helene and Buur, Lars (2004): Decentralisation and traditional authority as new sites for state formation and contestation of accountability. Topical seminar Series: Cultures of accountability. Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. 20 October, Buur, Lars (2004): In the Name of the People: Sovereignty and democratic exclusion. Research Network: From Inequality to Insecurity: The Place of Crime and Violence in Development Thinking and Action. Conceptualising order and violence. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen Denmark September, Buur, Lars (2004): Regulating the margin: bringing vigilantism and violence under control in South Africa s Townships. African Studies Association of the UK, Biennial Conference. Debating Africa? Goldsmiths College, University of London September, Buur, Lars (and Kyed, Helene Maria) (2004): New Sites of Citizenship: Recognition of Traditional Authority and Group-based Citizenship in Mozambique. International conference: Traditional Accountability and Modern Governance in Africa. St. Mary s College, University of Durham, 5-7 July. Buur, Lars and Cherry, Janet (2004): Kwazakele then and now: resistance and democratic consolidation in Kwazakele township from 1984 to Symposium: Townships Now. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg, 9-11 June. Buur, Lars and Kyed, Helene, Maria (2004): Ritualisation of state authority: Recognition of traditional authorities in post- socialist Mozambique. International workshop: Ritualisation of the state: Neo-popular state rituals in Mozambique and South Africa. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg in co- operation with the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), 3-4 June. Buur, Lars (2004): State Recognition of traditional leaders in Mozambique: neo-popular state rituals and group-based citizenship. Guest Lecture LSE Africa Forum, London School of Economics, 3 March. Buur, Lars (2004): Developmental Contestation: The war on crime and the criminalisation of popular protest. International Research Network: From Inequality to Insecurity. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, 19-21January. Buur, Lars (2004): Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation: Human Rights and Anthropology. Guest Lecture, Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen, 25 February. Buur, Lars and Tshehla, Boyane (2004): Security and Development: Critical Perspectives from South Africa. Lecture, Uppsala, 22 January. Buur, Lars (2004): Six years of research on truth commissions and democratic consolidation in South Africa. The Laboremus Study Circle, Uppsala, 13 January. 13

14 Buur, Lars (2003): The concept of the person in two South African quasi-courts. International PhD workshop: Senses of Right and Wrong. The Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, December. Buur, Lars (2003): Crime and Punishment on the Margins of the Post-Apartheid State. Lecture, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University, 10 November. Buur, Lars (2003) Crime and Punishment on the Margins of the Post-Apartheid State. Lecture, Uppsala, 23 October. Buur, Lars (and Jensen, Steffen) (2003): Vigilantism and the Policing of Everyday Life in South Africa. Wits Workshop on Law and Society, Johannesburg, September. Buur, Lars (2003): Vigilantism and the Policing in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy Conference, Birmingham, 5-7 September. Buur, Lars (2003): The Sovereign Outsourced: Local Justice and Violence in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 3 September. Buur, Lars (2003): Mob justice: fear and crime in the new South Africa. International Conference, Gangs, Crowds, City Enclaves: Political Violence in a Globalizing World. University of Amsterdam, August. Buur, Lars (2003): Crime and Punishment on the Margins of the Post-Apartheid State. Lecture, Department of International Studies, Roskilde University, 3 March. Buur, Lars (2003): The Sovereign Outsourced: Local Justice and Violence in Port Elizabeth. Lecture, Buur, Lars /Development, Copenhagen, 26 February. Buur, Lars and Kyed, Helene, Maria (2002): Ritualismo do Estado: A implementação do Decreto 15/2000 e o reconhecimento das autoridades comunitárias no distrito de Sussundenga, Província de Manica. Lecture, Centro de Estudos da População, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, 29 October. Buur, Lars (2002): Cobrança de impostos. Workshop O Decreto 15/2000: O reconhecimento das Autoridades Comunitárias onde nao há Estado?, Chimoio, Mozambique, 17 October. Buur, Lars (2002): Justiça e resoluções de conflitos. Workshop O Decreto 15/2000: O reconhecimento das Autoridades Comunitárias onde nao há Estado?, Chimoio Mozambique, 17 de October. Buur, Lars (2002): Outsourcing the sovereign. WISER Symposium: Law, Crime, and Moral Logics of Everyday Life, Johannesburg, 7-8 May. Buur, Lars and Fullard, Madeleine (2002): Local justice in and out of time: inscriptions on the body in the name of the people. European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Copenhagen, March. Buur, Lars (2001): Fighting the dragon with all means: Extra-State forms of justice enforcement in South Africa. Nordic Africa Days, Uppsala, 5-7 October. Buur, Lars (2001): Truth and Reconciliation. Presentation at Conflict Network. Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, 1 February. Buur, Lars and Jensen, Steffen (2001): South Africanisation of post-apartheid South Africa: Nation-state building and consequences for mobile livelihoods. International Conference: Living on the edge: migration, conflict and state in the backyard of Globalisation. Centre for Development Research and University of Oxford, Copenhagen, January. Buur, Lars (2000): Truth, exchange relations and public secrets. Lecture, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology. Aarhus University, 27 October. Buur, Lars (2000): Interpreting and translation work at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Translation Circle, Copenhagen University, 26 September. Buur, Lars (2000): In the name of the victims : the Politics of Representivity in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. International Conference: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, September Buur, Lars (2000): Will to order, silences and commission work. Seminar On Silences in the South African Transition, Copenhagen, 6 January. 14

15 15 Buur, Lars (1999): Monumental History: Visibility and invisibility in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. International conference: The TRC: Commissioning the Past. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, June Buur, Lars (1999): Kommissionsarbejde og Gross Human Rights Violations - når ideal-forestillingerne om menneskerettigheder må ofres på det nationale alter. Amnesty International, Viborg, 6 February. Buur, Lars (1998): Som Kristne tilgiver vi dem -- eller gør vi nu også det?. Aarhus, 4 November. Buur, Lars (1998): Processes of State Formation: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Practices Constituting the Modern Nation-State. International Conference: States of Imagination, Copenhagen, February. Buur, Lars (1997): To Establish a Truth. Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town. Public Debate and Media 2011 Interview. Den Svære Kunst at Løfte de Fattige. Marie Louise Bruun Rasmussen. Kristeligt Dagblad June 14, Interview. Man taler da kinesisk i Afrika. Sten Jensen, Berlingske Tidende. May 30, Interview. Udsigt til politisk hanekamp i Mozambique ved Henrik Lumholt. i Ulandsnyt and ( April 14, Interview, Henrik Lomholt, Baggrund for President E.A. Guebuza s Danmarks besøg og den politiske udvikling i Mozambique. October 13, Interview, Jyllands Posten (Rasmus Barud Thompsen). Crime and Brain Drain. June 9, Interview Nyhedsavisen, 23. oktober 2007:17. Modtog Verdens største pris for at passe sit job 2006 Interview and keywords for JP Galathea Ekspeditionen undervisningsside With Jesper Strudsholm. Article on vigilantism in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Politiken. March 2001 Interview on vigilantism and policing by the South African journalist Christal Terreblanche. In Sunday Independent, South Africa 1998 Interviews in Kristeligt Dagblad and Aktuelt on the work of the South African Commission and Reconciliation. November 1998 In collaboration with journalist Jesper Strudsholm, double paged article on reconciliation and the work of the South African Commission. Politiken. November 1998 In collaboration with Jesper Strudsholm. Kroniken on reconciliation and the Final Report of the South African Commission. Politiken. October 1998 Before Deadline, DR. On the release of the Final Report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. October.