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Poverty and Conflict: assessing interventions

Poverty is the single greatest risk factor for conflict. However, peacebuilding programmes have suffered from a lack of data and measurement to better understand the relationship with poverty. This paper seeks to bridge the gap by exploring how indicators and data collection tools can measure the impact of interventions designed to reduce both poverty and conflict.

Hard Power, Hard Security: The International Security Forum 2011

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Climate change, migration, and conflict: M. Werz / Center for American Progress Action Fund, 2012; This report is the first in a series of papers from the Center for American Progress that examine the nexus of climate change, migration and conflict, and its implications for United States foreign po...
Conflict in the Somali Region of Ethiopia: can education promote peacebuilding?: S Richards / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011; This report is an analysis of the links between conflict and education in Somali Region, and examines if and how improved education might contribute to peace and security objectives. While recognizing...
State-Building, Peace-Building and Service Delivery in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: Literature Review: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies , 2011; This literature review is the first output of a one-year DFID-funded research programme on state-building, peace-building and service delivery in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS)....
Spotting the spoilers: a guide to analyzing organized crime in fragile states: M. Shaw / International Peace Institute, 2012; Organized crime and related serious crime have become a critical issue in many fragile states. Experience shows that organized crime must be addressed during the course of any peace operation or polit...
Kenya's new constitution and conflict transformation: B Mkangi / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2012; The 2007/8 post-election conflict that engulfed Kenya was not unprecedented. A failure to address the root causes of these violent conflicts has occasioned their re-occurrence and further entrenched t...
Trends in international arms transfers, 2011: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute , 2011; This 8-page factsheet contains information on all international transfers of major conventional weapons from 1950 to the end of 2011. The headlines are: The volume of international transfers of major ...
Food Insecurity and Violent Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Addressing the Challenges: 2011; This paper seeks to provide an overview of the link between food insecurity and violent conflict, addressing both traditional and emerging threats to security and political stability. It discusses the...
Norms and premises of peace governance: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2012; This paper considers both theoretical and operational aspects of conflict resolution in conflict-prone societies in India and in Europe....
Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Post-War Northern Uganda: T. Bruck / Households in Conflict Network , 2011; This paper studies the effect of living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, c...
Malnutrition, subsequent Risk of Mortality and Civil War in Burundi: P. Verwimp / Households in Conflict Network , 2011; The paper investigates the effect of child malnutrition on the risk of mortality in Burundi, a very poor country heavily affected by civil war. We find that undernourished children, as measured by the...