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Missing the point: violence reduction and policy misadventures in Nairobi's poor neighbourhoods
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013Violence and crime are part of everyday life in many of Nairobi’s poor urban neighbourhoods. While wealthier enclaves of the city are heavily guarded by private security firms, violence and protection provided through criminal organisations and vigilante groups has become commonplace in the poor neighbourhoods.DocumentYouth crime in Latin America
Brookings Institution, 2013Juvenile delinquency is increasing in almost every country in Latin America—a region where citizen security is the main concern. Youth crime is at the forefront of regional social challenges: Scholars, activists and legislators are all debating both causes and potential solutions to this problem.DocumentWho rules Nigeria?
Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2012Nigeria has experienced military coups, a civil war and very poor economic development, and its population is more impoverished today than at independence. Behind this lies the “oil curse”. The ruling elite has captured the rents generated from oil for personal enrichment and power purposes. Nigeria’s elite formation has three distinct characteristics.DocumentMediating criminal violence: lessons from the gang truce in El Salvador
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2013During the 1980s El Salvador suffered a bitterly contested civil war. Negotiations mediated by the United Nations concluded in a peace agreement in 1992 and set the course for the, largely smooth, assimilation of former guerrillas in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) into Salvadoran political life.DocumentThe New Deal's peacebuilding and statebuilding goals and organised crime
International Alert, 2013Organised crime has the potential to further contribute to fragility by intervening in what are often fraught relationships between state and society, as well as between citizens themselves.DocumentThe missing middle - examining the Armed Group phenomenon in Nepal
Small Arms Survey, 2013This brief reports on the history of the country’s armed groups, their initial proliferation following the signing of the peace agreement following the civil war, their development and overlap with other societal groups, the reasons behind their recent decline, and their relationship to the state.DocumentRough cut: sustainability issues in the coloured gemstone industry
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2010The coloured (non-diamond) gemstone industry is a strategic industry in many African and Asian countries. However, a closer look reveals that the production and processing of coloured gemstonesDocumentGetting smart and scaling up: responding to the impact of organized crime on governance in developing countries
Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2013The development landscape is rapidly changing and new centres of economic dynamism are emerging. At the same time, organized criminal activity, including illicit trafficking and financial flows, is increasing in these same settings, often fuelling tension or violence among elites or other groups vying for control of illicit markets.DocumentLiterature review: instability and intrastate conflict in Zimbabwe
Research4Development, 2013There is consensus in the recent (2011-13) literature on Zimbabwe that although the country has stabilised considerably since the last elections in 2008, the risk of internal conflict during the period surrounding the 2013 elections is high. The principal factors underpinning the potential for conflict are:OrganisationCentre For Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS)
The Centre for Non-traditional Security Studies (NTS) conducts research and produces policy-relevant analyses aimed at furthering awareness and building capacity to address NTS issues and challenges iPages