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The underside of political settlements: violence in Egypt and Kenya
Oosterom M., McGee R. / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Understanding 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.DocumentOn a wing and a prayer? Challenges for reducing armed violence
J. Lind / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Most 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.DocumentAgency and citizenship in a context of gender-based violence
Shahrokh T., Wheeler J. / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This pilot evaluation explores how citizenship and agency among social activists can be fostered in contexts of urban violence at the local level.DocumentKey challenges of security provision in rapidly urbanising contexts: Evidence from Kathmandu Valley and Terai regions of Nepal
S. Bogati, J. Gupte / 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
P. Scott-Villiers / 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
M. Schultze-Kraft / 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.DocumentAddressing Sexual Violence in and Beyond the 'Warzone'
P. Oosterhoff,, E. Mills,, M. Oosterom, / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Conflict-related sexual violence remains pervasive across the globe.DocumentAddressing Sexual Violence in and Beyond the 'Warzone'
P. Oosterhoff,, E. Mills,, M. Oosterom, / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Conflict-related sexual violence remains pervasive across the globe, and its widespread use has been reported in Rwanda, Liberia, Northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.DocumentExternal stresses in West Africa: cross-border violence and cocaine trafficking
Collodi J. / 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.Document‘It may approach as quickly as a bushfire’. Gendered Violence and Insecurity in South Sudan.
M, Oosterom / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This research report presents the findings of case study research in Eastern Equatoria State in South Sudan, carried out within the Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency (PVCA) programme, at the Institute of Development Studies.Pages