Peacebuilding
What tools and approaches can be employed to counter violence and promote security? What structural causes need to be addressed to engender more peaceful co-existence?
Latest Documents
- 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...
- When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
- K. Harris; D. Keen; T. Mitchell / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- This paper by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) argues for increased focus on the conflict-disaster nexus in fragile and conflict-affected states. It is based on a study assessing the evidence base on the ways in which natural ...
- How do islands of peace emerge during outbreaks of violence in Cote d'Ivoire?
- J. Allouche; P.A.Z. Zadi / Wiley Online Library, 2013
- Research on conflict prevention has often left the question of how civilians manage to contain violence in conflict environments unaddressed. This article aims to understand how islands of peace emerge during outbreaks of violence in ...
- Using social leaders as human catalysts to help create networks of stability
- M.A. Salmon / Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2012
- After clearing extremist militias out of Basra in 2008, a strategic opportunity for building stability in this Iraqi province was available. The current paper captures that moment, highlighting the dramatically improved security but t...
- How can Nepal tackle the scourge of armed violence?
- Nepal Armed Violence Reduction Working Group, 2012
- Awareness of armed violence in Nepal is limited. Recent data indicates that armed violence has increased across the country after the peace agreement was signed between the Nepalese government and the leaders of the Maoist insurgency ...
- Libya needs integrated and systemic economic reconstruction
- D. Vandewalle / African Development Bank, 2011
- The economic, social, and political challenges Libyans will face in the aftermath of its civil war will be enormous. This paper demonstrates that with the state's economic and political institutions having been weakened, Libya will ne...
- 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 chances that a country will experience viol...
- 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 women’s movements, what make...
- 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 swiftly look to support reconstructio...
- 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 in peace building and reconciliatio...
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