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"Flooding our eyes with rubbish": urban waste management in Maputo, Mozambique

Journal Article | Aug 2018

Critical voices on urban management tend to portray conflicting governmentalities, with western 'top-down' municipal development models on the one hand, ...

citizen-state relations, divided city, informal settlements, urban sanitation, Mozambique

Fishermen and Territorial Anxieties in China and Vietnam: Narratives of the South China Sea beyond the Nation Frame

Journal Article | May 2017

In the geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea (SCS), fishers are at the center of Chinese and Vietnamese cartographic imaginations that define ...

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

Complex realities and astute actors: Sudanese women's activism and UN Security Council Resolution 1325

Report in External Series | Jan 2014

Sudanese women activists do not use United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 to claim rights. During my eight years of engagement with women’s ...

Resolutionn 1325, Sudan, women's activism, Sudan

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

Politics in the developing world. 3rd ed.

Edited Book | Jan 2011

The third edition of this well respected textbook explores the changing nature of politics in the developing world in the twenty-first century. Beginning ...

Challenges facing Sudan after referendum day 2011. Persistent and emerging conflict in the north-south borderline states

Sudan Report | Jan 2010

With the referendum on the self-determination of South Sudan scheduled for January 9, 2011, Sudan will enter the final phase covered by the Comprehensive ...

Sudan

Peacebuilding in post-war situations: Lessons for Sudan

CMI Report | Jan 2004

This report examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the last decade or so that are relevant to the current challenges in Sudan. While there ...

Peacebuilding, Sudan, Africa: Sudan

Humanitarian assistance during conflict in a state-less society: The case of Somalia

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999

This working paper was prepared for the workshop on "Aid and Humanitarian Assistance in Africa" in Arusha, 27-29 June, 1998, with financial support from ...

Africa: Somalia

Conference on the conflict in Sri Lanka and the international response

Project | Jan 1996

The conference on the Sri Lankan situation and the role of the international community was arranged by CMI, in cooperation with the All Parties Solidarity ...

Sheikhs and the City: Urban Paths of Contention in Sidon, Lebanon

Journal Article | Jan 2020

This article examines the rise and fall of the “Assir movement,” a neo-Salafist campaign led by a charismatic local sheikh who, after years ...

contentious politics, Lebanon, pathways, Salafism, social movements, , urban ecology, Lebanon

Humanitarian Diplomacy: A New Research Agenda

CMI Brief | Jun 2018

Improving access to humanitarian aid in conflict and complex emergencies has always been a major concern for policy makers and humanitarian actors. Historically, ...

Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian diplomacy

The War in Yemen: The view from Iran

Report in External Series | Oct 2015

In the regional backdrop to the war in Yemen Iran is a pivotal actor. Saudi Arabia has made clear that it sees the conflict in Yemen as the extension ...

Yemen, Saudi Arabia

The Women's Quota in Conflict Ridden Sudan: Ideological Battles for and against Gender Equality

Journal Article | Jan 2013

This article explores women's substantive representation in Sudan's National Assembly. It examines the extent to which female legislators in the National ...

Sudan

The Politics of Local Boundaries and Conflict in Sudan. The South Darfur Case

Sudan Working Paper | Feb 2008

Up to 1994, Darfur region (the present three states of Darfur) had remained a single integrated political and administrative unit since the establishment ...

Sudan

Mid-term Evaluation Report of the National Solidarity Programme (NSP), Afghanistan

Commissioned Report | Jan 2006

Twenty-five years of conflict has left Afghanistan with a profound need for extensive intervention to address reconstruction and development requirements, ...

Afghanistan

Social development and industry level foreign direct investment

CMI Report | Jan 2004

Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign ...

Foreign direct investment, Social development

Caught between a rock and a hard place?

Project | Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

"Custom and Sharia in Family Conflicts. Case studies from Khyber Pakthunkwha Pakistan". Paper presented to The Shariah Workshop May 18-19 ,2009 ...

Pakistan, Gender, Plural Law

Human Rights Programme

Programme | Jan 1983 - Dec 2010

The objective of this programme is to provide a social science perspective to the study of human rights in developing countries. Current projects focus ...

human rights

Economic policy issues in Sri Lanka

Project | Jan 2000 - Dec 2004

In January CMI produced a brief report on aid and economic policy issues in Sri Lanka, commissioned by NORAD. The report is part of the agreement to improve ...

Asia: Sri Lanka