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    Not just in transit: Drugs, the state and society in West Africa

    West Africa Commission on Drugs, 2014
    In an increasingly interconnected world, West Africa has become an attractive destination for transnational organized crime. Drug cartels have collaborated with local partners to turn the region into a significant transit route to Europe and North America for illicit drugs produced in South America and Asia.
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    Implementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.
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    To save succeeding generations: UN Security Council reform and the protection of civilians

    Igarape Institute, 2013
    The UN needs to be reformed, and this has been an almost constant item on the agenda of the General Assembly and Security Council since the creation of the organisation. The current paper is a contribution to the debate about UN reform, with specific reference to the protection of civilians by peacekeeping missions under international law.
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    The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR)

    HPCR is a research and policy program that provides technical assistance and information support for international organisations engaged in humanitarian action and conflict transformation.
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    Running out of time: Survival of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2014
    This report documents the findings of a rapid assessment of the needs of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon undertaken over 10 days in November 2013. A two-person team interviewed Syrian refugee families in Beirut, Tripoli, and the Bekaa, as well as a broad spectrum of informed staff at local and international NGOs and agencies.
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    Violent conflict and behavior: a field experiment in Burundi

    ResearchGate, 2010
    We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social-, risk- and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior: individuals exposed to violence display more altruistic behavior towards their neighbors, are more risk seeking, and have higher discount rates.
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    War and local collective action in Sierra Leone

    ResearchGate, 2008
    In this paper the authors study the brutal 1991-2002 Sierra Leone civil war using nationally representative household data on conflict experiences, postwar economic outcomes, local politics and collective action.
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    New technologies for improving old public security challenges in Nairobi

    Igarape Institute, 2014
    This paper maps out the digital environment shaping public security in selected informal settlements of Nairobi. In particular, the paper considers the diverse ways in which information communication technologies (ICTs) are being adopted by Kenyan police in informal settlements.
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    The underside of political settlements: violence in Egypt and Kenya

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
      Understanding political settlements is important for addressing and mitigating violence. This policy briefing is based on case studies from Egypt and Kenya which confirm that political settlements that only focus on formal actors and spaces at the national level are crucially flawed.
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    On a wing and a prayer? Challenges for reducing armed violence

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Most deaths due to violence now occur outside traditional conflict settings. In these contexts, violence is complex and often hard to understand, linked to a variety of conditions, situations and trends which are deeply embedded and difficult to shift without considerable investment, contextual knowledge and risk.

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