Lisa Denney

Lisa Denney is research fellow on politics and governance at the UK Overseas Development Institute. She has an interest in security and development, peacebuilding in fragile states and informal governance practices.

Community policing? Achieving more realistic results

It has become fashionable for first-world donors to embrace ‘community policing’ for developing-world security programmes. But context is everything.

By Lisa Denney

/ 8 Apr 2015

Indonesia regresses with the use of the death penalty

The prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian protest. But these are part of a wider official spasm, in a country dominated by a ‘tough on crime’ narrative.

By Lisa Denney

/ 4 Mar 2015

Nigeria: women on the outskirts of politics

With only nine women senators representing 54 million women in Nigeria, international support should focus on the broader political cycle and the numerous obstacles to women's political participation, rather than on the election moment, says Lisa Denney

By Lisa Denney

/ 19 Dec 2011