Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security, Drivers of conflict

Showing 191-200 of 639 results

Pages

  • Document

    Revamping artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe to catalyse poverty reduction

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    This briefing discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by theartisanal (small-scale) gold mining sector in Zimbabwe. It reflects on the measures needed to promote artisanal miners’ contribution to sustainable development, economic growth and poverty alleviation.
  • Document

    Getting real about an illicit ‘External Stressor’: Transnational cocaine trafficking through West Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Concerns over West Africa's increasingly prominent role as transhipment point of South American cocaine en route to Europe are mounting.
  • Document

    India in Afghanistan: a rising power or a hesitant power?

    2012
    Ever since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, India has tried to pursue a pro-active Afghanistan policy and a broad-based interaction is taking place between the two states. This is also a time when Indian capabilities - political, economic, and military - have increased markedly and India has become increasingly ambitious in defining its foreign policy agenda.  
  • Document

    Africa’s extractive governance architecture: lessons to inform a shifting agenda

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Careful reflection is needed in examining options for streamlining and capacitating the myriad Africa-led initiatives that have emerged recently in the area of resource governance.
  • Document

    Disaster-related displacement from the Horn of Africa

    Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014
    Between 2008 and 2012, 144 million people were forced to leave their homes by sudden-onset disasters around the world. The vast majority of them fled from floods, storms and wildfires and others effects of climate change. Most remain in their countries as internally displaced people, but many also flee across the borders to other countries.
  • Document

    Minefields of marikana: prospects for forging a new social compact

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The platinum belt is arguably a microcosm of the South African political economy, providing analysts with an opportunity to explore fault lines in the latter two decades after the end of apartheid. The tragic events at Marikana in August 2012 in which 44 people lost their lives – 34 of them in one day – illuminate these fault lines and paradoxes.
  • Document

    The gathering storm: Climate change, security and conflict

    Environmental Justice Foundation, 2014
    In an urgent call to action, The Environmental Justice Foundation have published this report analysing the potential for climate change to increase conflict in vulnerable states.
  • Document

    Climate & environment assessment: business case for support to the CRP in Sierra Leone

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This paper is a climate and environment assessment that was conducted as part of the “Business Case” for supporting the “Constitutional Review Process in Sierra Leone”.
  • Document

    Resource scarcity and the environment: evidence review and research gap analysis

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This study focuses on the issue of resource scarcity and how it affects the environment and environmental resources as well as growth and poverty in developing countries. The study’s main geographical scope is Sub-Saharan Africa and South, although other locations are considered in case they provide information transferrable to other contexts.
  • Document

    Land and conflict in Sierra Leone: a rapid desk-based study

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This paper is a desk-based study of land rights and conflict in Sierra Leone.  It reviews post-2002 academic and grey literature. It addresses land ownership and rights within Sierra Leone, as well as exploring the concept of land ownership as a source or driver of conflict. It also reviews literature on the current land tenure system, and government stated policies.

Pages