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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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Structures of Peace: ( Human Security Gateway , 2011); Structures of Peace is a new conceptual framework for understanding and describing the factors that create a peaceful society. Derived from an empirical and statistical analysis of the Global Peace In...
Organized crime and instability in Central Africa: a threat assessment: ( T. Leggett / Human Security Gateway , 2011); Organized crime has not received a lot of attention in Central Africa, for the simple reason that other issues have seemed more pressing. However, as this report argues, much of the ongoing violence i...
Investing in security: a global assessment of armed volence reduction initiatives: ( R Muggah / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2011); In spite of the global preoccupation with the costs and consequences of armed violence, comparatively little evidence exists about how to stem its risks and effects. Virtually no information is availa...
Climate change, hydroconflicts and human security: achievements of and gaps in current policies: ( Clico , 2010); Both politicians and scientists have called climate change a conflict trigger or multiplier. Climate change is seen as a key driver for the ecological crisis behind the current conflict in Sudan&rsquo...
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...