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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.
How are the BRICS influencing international peacebuilding and statebuilding?
The dome of a mosque under construction
T. Smith / Panos Pictures

The emergence of the BRICS has generated a renewed debate about peacebuilding and donor activity. This is influencing the aims, norms and practices of international peacebuilding, statebuilding and development. This paper highlights the instances in which traditional and emerging actors’ agendas converge and diverge – and the motivations behind these agendas.

Latest Documents

Trusting the enemy: confidence in the state among ex-combatants
E. Nussio; B. Oppenheim / Households in Conflict Network, 2013
War-torn societies are often racked with generalized distrust, both among citizens and between citizens and the state. Even long after conflict ends, former combatants who participated in violence and challenged the state’s mono...
Towards delivering credible polls in Zimbabwe
G.A. Dzinesa / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2013
The people of Zimbabwe are expected to cast their votes in general elections in 2013. Because of the likelihood of a troubled lead-up to these elections, Zimbabwe’s political parties, the Southern African Development Community (...
Syria's uprising: sectarianism, regionalisation, and state order in the Levant
S. Heydemann / Fride, 2013
As the Syrian revolution enters its third year, the risks to regional stability are escalating. Violence has spilled over all of Syria's borders. The conflict has elevated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, threatening the 1990 Taif settl...
"You are all terrorists:” Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi
G. Simpson / Human Rights Watch, 2013
This 68-page report is based on interviews with 101 refugees, asylum seekers, and Kenyans of Somali ethnicity. The report aims to document how police used grenade and other attacks by unknown people in Nairobi’s mainly Somali su...
Elites, oil and violence mitigation in the Niger Delta
M. Schultze-Kraft / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
The crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta in Nigeria is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts in which thousands have been killed and the country’s vital oil industry has suffered. In the past twenty years, environmental des...
Global overview 2012: people internally displaced by conflict and violence
S. Albuja / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2013
Over 6.5 million people were newly displaced inside their home countries in 2012, almost twice as many as the year before. Because these people have not crossed a border, they are not refugees and do not benefit from international pro...
Global estimates 2012: People displaced by disaster
M. Yonetani / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2013
The displacement of people by the risk and impact of disasters is a concern for policymakers in both rich and poor countries worldwide. Since 2009, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring ...
Latin American approaches to extractive industry conflict
G. Damonte / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
The rapid expansion of extractive industries in Latin America is transforming the societies and territories in which it is occurring. This phenomenon has provoked social and environmental conflict, especially involving the rural and i...
Small-scale and informal mining: a big problem for Latin American states
J. Kuramoto / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
Latin America has experienced substantial growth and transformation in small-scale mining, meaning it is often no longer small or artisanal, instead it is characterised by high informality and an increasing potential to generate confl...
The BRICS and international peacebuilding and statebuilding
O. Richmond; I. Tellidis / Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2013
The emergence of the BRICS has generated a renewed debate about peacebuilding and donor activity. This has slowly influenced the aims, norms and practices of international peacebuilding, statebuilding and development. There are subtle...
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