Awards & Publications

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Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett:

• Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award, 2022.
• Shortlisted 'Best True Crime 2021', Crime Writers of Canada.
• Shortlisted 'International Book Award—True Crime: Non-Fiction 2021', American Book Fest.

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace

• ‘Best Academic Title Award, 2006’, American Library Association.

'Working with legal small-scale miners: implications for development'. Gabriel Botchwey, Michael Nest and Riccardo D'Emidio. Journal of International Development, 7 Dec 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3726

'Corruption and climate finance: implications for climate change interventions', Michael Nest, Saul Mullard and Cecilie Wathne, U4 Brief 2020: 14. U4 Anti-Corruption Research Center, Norway, 2020.

'Countering Fraud in Social Benefits Programmes: Taking Stock of Current Measures and Future Directions', Gavin Ugale, Michael Nest and Lisa Kilduff, Paris: OECD, 2020.

'Evaluation of Linkages between Environmental Governance and the Anti-Corruption Chain in Ghana: Opportunities for Support.'  Michael Nest, Noble Wadzah and David Asumda, Accountability, Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme in Ghana. European Union.  2017.

'Preventing corruption in community mineral beneficiation schemes', U4 Issue, February 2017, no.3. U4 Anti-Corruption Research Center, Norway, 2017.

'Corruption risks in NSW Government procurement: the risk management challenge', Robert Waldersee and Michael Nest. Journal of Chartered Secretaries Australia 64(4) 2012: 207-211.

'Ambitions, Profits & Loss: Zimbabwean Economic Involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo', African Affairs 100(400) 2001: 469-490.

'Overview of Development Assistance to East Timor, 1975-1999.'  Ch.10 in Survey of Economic and Social Conditions in East Timor, Jon Pedersen and Marie Arneberg (Eds) New York: Columbia University, 1999: 132-153.

Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett, Michael Nest with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell. Regina: University of Regina Press. 2020.

Still a Pygmy: the unique memoir of one man's fight to save his identity from extinction, Isaac Bacirongo and Michael Nest. Sydney: Finch Publishing. 2015.

Coltan, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2011.

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace, Michael Nest, with François Grignon and Emizet Kisangani. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press. 2006.