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Corruption and armed conflicts: some stirring around in the governance soup
International Relations and Security Network, 2007This paper explores the causal linkages between corruption and civil wars. It discusses the impact of corruption on the probability of violent conflict events and traces the shifts in the composition of corrupt transactions during and in the aftermath of violent conflicts.OrganisationEuroMesco
EuroMeSCo itself, as a functioning confidence-building measure, is concerned with creating lasting cooperative professional relationships with similar non-governmental and independent organisations.DocumentPassing on the challenges or prescribing better management of diversity?: decentralisation, power sharing and conflict dynamics in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007This paper explores the linkages between decentralisation, conflict and power in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It argues that decenralisation in Indonesia has to some extent addressed existing grievances in the regions, but that such change has LAO opened up spaces for new forms of local level elite. The paper finds that:DocumentProtection of civilians in African peace missions: the case of the African Union Mission in Sudan, Darfur
Institute for Security Studies, 2007This paper examines the problems of civilian protection created by the war in Darfur, focusing on the role of African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and the challenges it has encountered in protecting civilians in Darfur.DocumentConsolidating the peace?: views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
CARE International, 2007This report assess the first year of work by the United Nations Peacebuilidng Commission (PBC). The report coincides with the PBC’s own first annual report to the General Assembly and assesses the PBC’s impacts on its first two focus countries: Sierra Leone and Burundi.DocumentWhen neighbours become killers: ethnic conflict and communal violence in Western Uganda
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007This paper explores questions of identity and conflict by analysing an eruption of ethnic violence in Western Uganda. The paper focuses on the concept of communal violence as it applies to the African context. The paper argues that communal violence is a particular form of meaningful collective action where rumours play a critical role in reproducing violent acts.DocumentIndia human rights report 2007
Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007The new India Human Rights Report 2007 by the Asian Centre for Human Rights details the main human rights abuses in India by state, each chapter describing state-specific abuses. The report concludes that the Naxalites and other armed opposition groups (AOGs) are responsible for the worst current violations of international humanitarian laws in India.DocumentYouth peace building training - Sudan: participants pack
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2007This Participants Pack contains diagrams, articles and readings designed to assist Youth peacebuilders. It was developed in reference to a trainers pack for a youth peace building training session, but can also be used independently. The pack aims to assist youth peace builders through five themes:DocumentThe U.S response to precarious states: tentative progress and remaining obstacles to coherence
Center for Global Development, USA, 2007This paper evaluates the U.S. policy response to fragile states. In tracing the origins of contemporary U.S. foreign policy interests, it highlights changing threat perceptions in the wake of 9/11 and perceived lessons of post-conflict difficulties in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also looks at the preventive efforts to reform and stabilise states at risk of failure.