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Key challenges of security provision in rapidly urbanising contexts: Evidence from Kathmandu Valley and Terai regions of Nepal
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014We know that urban violence not only affects people’s health and wellbeing, it has a devastating impact on the social fabric and economic prospects of entire cities. It can also set recursive cycles of vulnerability in motion – violence-affected individuals find it increasingly harder to be gainfully employed, while poverty is sustained through inter generational transfers.DocumentRoots and routes of political violence in Kenya’s civil and political society: A case study of Marsabit County
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Struggles to influence the balance of power and the distribution of economic resources in Kenya have a long history of violence: national and local, actual and threatened, physical and psychological.DocumentGetting real about an illicit ‘External Stressor’: Transnational cocaine trafficking through West Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Concerns over West Africa's increasingly prominent role as transhipment point of South American cocaine en route to Europe are mounting.DocumentExternal stresses in West Africa: cross-border violence and cocaine trafficking
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014The 2011 World Development Report on conflict, security and development highlights the centrality of 'external stresses' for generating insecurity and increasing the risk of violence in fragile areas.DocumentIndia in Afghanistan: a rising power or a hesitant power?
2012Ever 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.DocumentCivil Society Rapid Assessment: Liberia
West Africa Civil Society Institute, 2014More than a decade since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Accra, Ghana, Liberia continues its long walk to restoration and reconciliation. Though Liberia has stayed relatively stable and peaceful in the post-conflict period, challenges remain.DocumentThe gathering storm: Climate change, security and conflict
Environmental Justice Foundation, 2014In 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.DocumentChina and Liberia: engagement in a post-conflict country 2003–2013
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014Since the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Liberia in 2003, China has been one of the major foreign participants in Monrovia’s efforts to rebuild its society. Both within the framework of the UN Mission in Liberia and at a bilateral level, Beijing has proved itself an important stakeholder and development partner.DocumentWhere do the world’s poor live? A new update
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied 'poverty paradox' – the fact that most of the world's extreme poor no longer live in the world’s poorest countries.DocumentSmarter policing: tracking the influence of new Information Technology in Rio de Janeiro
Igarape Institute, 2013Technological advancements are changing the architecture of police-society relations around the world. New modes of oversight, whether applied by public security entities or citizens, are dramatically transforming the way policing is conducted.Pages