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How are violent conflict and poverty connected?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008Violent conflict affects poor people disproportionately. It affects their assets, livelihoods, education and health. It can force them to leave their homes and destroy their social networks. Poverty can also act as a trigger for conflict through social discontent, the search for a better life and a lack of choices for those involved.DocumentAl Hima: a way of life
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007The Hima is a traditional system of resource tenure that has been practiced for more than 1400 years in the Arabian Peninsular. With the numerous deteriorations that came and halted advancement in the Arab world, and at times for different reasons, the Hima also declined.DocumentPoverty and violent conflict: a micro level perspective on the causes and duration of warfare
Microcon, 2008Large-scale conflict has dire and unavoidable consequences for civilian communities. The threat of violence, and the ensuing disruption of livelihoods, frequently ensures that households must adopt ‘new’ behaviour and practices in order to survive.DocumentPromoting group justice: fiscal policies in post-conflict countries
Political Economy Research Institute, 2008The need for post-conflict countries to address economic inequality, particularly horizontal inequality among culturally defined groups, is increasingly being recognised. But it is less clear how this should be done.DocumentPoverty dynamics, violent conflict and convergence in Rwanda
Microcon, 2008This paper analyses household income and poverty dynamics both before and after violent conflict in Rwanda. It explores the socio-economic characteristics of households that move in and out of poverty in order to understand the impact of socio-economic shock.DocumentA climate of conflict
SIDA Studies, 2008Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, as its starting point and looks at the social and human consequences that are likely to ensue – particularly the risks of conflict and instability.OrganisationPolitical Economy Research Institute (PERI)
The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) is an independent unit of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with close ties to the Department of Economics.DocumentNo place like home: house demolitions in East Jerusalem
The Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, 2007Palestinian residents living in East Jerusalem are experiencing increased difficulties when building residential homes for themselves. The author argues that they face a myriad of bureaucratic hurdles when trying to obtain building permits as a result of low plot ratios in the Palestinian sectors of the city and problems with proof of land ownership.DocumentOn the Links Between Violent Conflict and Household Poverty: How Much Do We Really Know?
Microcon, 2007This paper aims to assess the usefulness of a new emerging body of work on the micro-level analysis of conflict and violence in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent conflict and household poverty. Micro-level empirical evidence on the relationship between violent conflict and poverty has beenDocumentMoving from food aid to cash transfers in Ethiopia
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The debate on whether cash transfers are more effective than food aid continues. Governments and organisations seeking to transfer cash to poor households should be aware of the challenges in targeting and the availability and price of food in local markets.Pages