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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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Donor support evaluation in Southern Sudan: ( J. Bennett (ed);S. Pantuliano (ed);W. Fenton (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2010); This report of the evaluation of donor support to conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities in Southern Sudan came at a critical juncture in the history of Sudan. and was prepared during the le...
Protecting human rights: how can national human rights institutions and civil society work more effectively together?: ( J. Kishan;S. Awori;Z. Abugov / Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative , 2011); The realisation of human rights relies on several factors. Most important, however, is the consistent determination of governments to respect human rights and adhere to democratic governance. The r...
Communication technology can maximise the impact of food price changes on riots: ( M. Verpoorten;A. Arora / AgEcon Search , 2011); Both recent and historic events point to a close link between riots and food prices. This article aims at providing a credible estimate on the impact of food prices on social unrest manifested in t...
Managing an effective reintegration infrastructure to achieve durable peace in Afghanistan: ( D. Derksen (ed) / International Peace Research Institute, Oslo , 2011); Since late 2010 the Afghan government, supported by its international partners, has tried to reintegrate insurgents under the Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program (APRP). The APRP aims to entice fig...
Combatting sexual and gender-based violence in DRC through an innovate media campaign: ( Dirk-Jan Koch;Tony Kasuza N’kolo / Search for Common Ground , 2011); This report presents progress of a Search for Common Ground (SFCG) project aimed at sensitising the population of western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the need to change behaviour towards wom...
Poverty and Conflict: assessing interventions: ( J. Vaughan;J. Graham / Mercy Corps , 2011); Poverty is the single greatest risk factor for conflict. Research conducted over the past decade has demonstrated that low per capita income and slow economic growth drastically increase the chance...
Changing Their World 2nd edition: ( S Batliwala (ed) / Association for Women's Rights in Development , 2011); This selection of four new case studies are an addition to the well received ‘Changing Their World’, publication from 2008, which contained ten case studies and considered what we mean by ...
Libya: where to now?: ( Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2011); What now for Libya with the fall of the authoritarian, centralised ‘one-party’ system? With the Gaddafi regime defeated and dispersed policy analysts and development professionals will ...
Hydropower development in Guatemala ignored civil society and generated conflict: ( C. Hirsch;M. Utreras / Association for International Water and Forest Studies, Norway , 2010); The debate about hydropower has recently been revitalised in the context of climate change and the large unmet demand for energy in many countries. This study is a contribution to the debate about ...
Right Now! Women with Disabilities Build Peace Post-Conflict: ( Ortoleva S / Center for Women Policy Studies , 2011); The main focus of this paper, part of the series of Barbara Faye Waxman Fiduccia papers on women and girls with disabilities, is to makes the argument for better inclusion of women with disabilities i...