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A Conflict Does Not Rot: State and Civil Society Responses to Civil War Offences in Mozambique

Journal Article | Jun 2013

This article analyses how state and non-state actors have tried to address the human rights violations and war crimes committed during the civil war in ...

Civil War, Gamba Spirits, Gorongosa, Human Rights, Local Justice, Mozambique, Transitional Justice, Mozambique

Acquiescence to assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon?

Journal Article | Nov 2010

This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war ...

assassinations, impunity, Lebanon

Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War

Book Review | Mar 2017

Review of the book: Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War, by Richardo Soares de Oliveira. New York: Oxford University Press, ...

Angola

Making unity unattractive: The conflicting aims of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement

Journal Article | Oct 2013

As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: ...

Power sharing after war, Sudan, South Sudan

Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon

Book Chapter | Jan 2012

Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon Are Knudsen and Nasser Yassin The peace in between. P

Lebanon

What's in a Figure? Estimating Recurrence of Civil War

Journal Article | Jan 2007

It is often said that a country that has experienced civil war has nearly a 50 per cent risk of sliding back into war within five years. This has been ...

civil war recurrence, peacebuilding

Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr: Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon

Journal Article | Dec 2016

This (open access) article furthers the study of post-civil war memorialisation in Lebanon by analysing the trajectory of the late Prime Minister Rafik ...

Lebanon, martyrs, Rafik Harir, post-civil war

Lebanese Armed Forces: A United Army for a Divided Country?

CMI Insight | Nov 2014

Lebanon is straining under the fallout from the Syrian civil war amidst catering for one million refugees. Can the Lebanese Armed Forces contain the crisis ...

Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), civil-military relations, deeply-divided societies, multi-confessional armies, Lebanon, Syria

Patrolling a proxy-war: Soldiers, citizens and Zuʻama in Syria Street, Tripoli

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

The deadliest proxy war in Lebanon is that between Bab al-Tabbaneh (Sunni) and Jabal Mohsen (Alawite), two neighbourhoods in downtown Tripoli. The conflict ...

micro-conflict, civil-miltary relations, , Lebanon

From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon

Book Chapter | Aug 2010

From refugees to revolutionaries: Camp-based Palestinians in post-civil war Lebanon Are Knudsen Gl

Lebanon

Explaining Variation in Violence After Civil war: A Comparative Analysis of Angola (2002-2009) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (2003-2010)

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2013

Explaining Variation in Violence After Civil war: A Comparative Analysis of Angola (2002-2009) and

Peacebuilding, postwar violence, collective violence. War duration, no. of factions, conflict settlement. Amnesties, prosecutions, ICC. Elections, economic growth, regional neighborhood. Statebuilding, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Afghanistan: Current humanitarian challenges

CMI Report | Jan 2001

More than twenty years of war and civil war and a severe drought has increased the vulnerability of the Afghan population. The warring fractions, the ...

Asia: Afghanistan

Economic Incentives for Peacebuilding

Report in External Series | Sep 2008

What does social science literature tell us about economic incentives for peacebuilding? A variety of such incentives exists in post-civil war situations. ...

economic incentives, peacebuilding, statebuilding, foreign aid, reparations, DDR, aid coordination

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): A united army for a divided country?

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

Multi-confessional armies are often seen as being weak and prone to disintegration. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is a case in point. From its inception ...

Lebanon, civil-miliary relations, army, urban conflict, deeply-divided societies

Angola party politics: Into the African trend

Angola Brief | Jun 2011

Angolan politics is usually explained with reference to the country’s long and devastating civil war. The postponed elections, the domination of ...

Angola

Sunnism, Salafism, Sheikism: Urban Pathways of Resistance in Sidon, Lebanon

Report in External Series | Jan 2019

This brief analyses Salafism as an urban phenomenon, with an emphasis on the contentious period following the Syrian uprising turned civil war (2011–present). ...

Lebanon

Peacebuilding and Democratic Consolidation in Post-War Guatemala: A Comparative Assessment of the Impact of Civil-Military Reforms in the Peace Accords

Master's Thesis | Dec 2007

This thesis seeks to combine institutional peacebuilding theory and democratization theory in order to understand the process and the result of the implementation ...

Civil-military relations in Lebanon: Conflict, cohesion and confessionalism in a divided society

Edited Book | Sep 2017

First book to examine civil-military relations in post-Arab Spring Lebanon This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous ...

Lebanon

Between mutual suspicion and fear. Civil-military relations in Mexico

CMI Working Paper | Sep 2015

This CMI Working Paper focuses on the relationship between the military, civilian governments and civilian populations in Mexico. It highlights key dynamics ...

Civil-military relations, security politics, war on drugs, Mexico

Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction

Book | Jan 1997

After more than twenty years of devastating civil war, Angola is slowly moving toward peace and reconciliation. In this accessible introduction to one ...

Angola