The Guide examines the drivers and dynamics of inter and intra-state conflicts such as ethnicity and competition for natural resources. It also highlights current approaches and responses to conflict prevention and resolution and best practice in the design of security and peacebuilding programmes.
- Responding to violent conflict in Tropical Africa
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How do, could and should institutions responsible for security and the management of conflict in Tropical African societies respond to violent conflict? This collection of essays observes that all governance (especially in Africa) is multileveled and networked – from the village to the international organisation, well beyond what is specified in formal government structures.
Latest Documents
- The future of intrastate conflict in Africa: more violence or greater peace?
- J. Cilliers; J. Schünemann / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2013
- This paper analyses future trends for intrastate conflict in Africa up to 2050 using the International Futures (IFs) model. After reviewing the main post-Cold War patterns of conflict and instability on the continent, the paper...
- The conflict management system in Karamoja: An assessment of strengths and weaknesses
- Mercy Corps, 2013
- This report explores the effectiveness of the conflict management system in northern Uganda’s remote Karamoja region. The authors identify formal government and customary actors responsible for managing conflict in Karamoja and t...
- Shared societies and armed conflicts: costs, inequality and the benefits of peace
- P. Justino / Households in Conflict Network, 2012
- This chapter examines how the relationship between economic exclusion, inequality, conflict and violence shape the goal of establishing shared societies. It discusses how this impact is largely determined by the emergence and organisa...
- Violence unsettles Tunisia’s democratic transition
- D. Ottaway / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2013
- Tunisia’s transition to democracy, widely regarded as the most successful to emerge from the five uprisings that shook the Arab world in 2011, is being seriously threatened by violence in the wake of a prominent leftist politicia...
- Death from the skies: deliberate and indiscriminate air strikes on civilians
- O. Solvang / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- This 80-page report is based on visits to 50 sites of government air strikes in opposition-controlled areas in Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia governorates, and more than 140 interviews with witnesses and victims. The air strikes documente...
- Living with the Middle East’s old-new security paradigm
- R. Youngs / Fride, 2013
- Attention has gradually turned to the geopolitical implications of the Arab spring. It is broadly recognised that ongoing processes of change in the Middle East and North Africa are not just about domestic level political reform but a...
- Violence against women and girls in Timor-Leste
- H. Haider / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
- The high prevalence of gender-based violence, particularly domestic violence, in Timor-Leste is considered to be a key challenge for the country. There is recognition that incidents of intimate partner violence and family violence hav...
- Does election monitoring reduce election-related violence?
- Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
- This report addresses the links between election monitoring, voter education and election-related violence. It finds little generalisable evidence to show that election monitoring or voter education consistently lead to a reduction in...
- 'We will teach you a lesson': sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan security forces
- C Hogg / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- The 140-page report provides detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention centers throughout Sri Lanka. In the cases documented men and women reporte...
- Yemen’s military-security reform: seeds of new conflict
- International Crisis Group, 2013
- On 21 March 2011, amid popular unrest, Yemen’s military fractured along intra-regime battle lines. In response a UN-sponsored implementation document outlined a transition roadmap that includes three principal tasks: holding a na...
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