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Explaining Variation in Violence after Civil War: A Comparative Analysis of Angola & the DR Congo

Project | Jan 2005 - Aug 2012

This PhD project analyzes why countries that recently have had a civil war experience different levels of collective violence in the postwar period. It ...

peacebuilding, civil war, postwar violence, Angola, DR Congo

The “CIA’s Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Aug 2019

Afghan paramilitary forces working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long been a staple in the US war on terrorism in Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan

From War-Termination to Sustainable Peacebuilding?

Project | Sep 2004 - Dec 2005

This project is on the integration of armed groups in peace processes, focusing on how various types of armed groups - in terms of their embeddedness ...

Peacebuilding, Demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration, Social embeddedness, Afghanistan and Guatemala

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

The limits of state-building in Afghanistan

Project | Jan 2005 - Dec 2007

An analysis of post-war Afghanistan with a focus on internationally-supported efforts to build a central state and related reconstruction efforts.

peacebuilding, post-conflict, afghanistan, reconstruction, statebuilding, Afghanistan

Lemstad Ingvild

Master's student

Master's student in political science focusing on post-war politics, governance and democracy.

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

Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983: local, regional and global connections

Journal Article | Sep 2014

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has ...

Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan

Does democracy reduce corruption?

CMI Working Paper | Dec 2011

While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This ...

Democracy, corruption, conflict, endogeneity, Bangladesh

Post-war Aid: Patterns and Purposes

Journal Article | Jan 2005

A recent report by the World Bank reiterates the widely-held view that donor agencies commit large amounts of funding in the immediate post-conflict phase, ...

postwar aid, conflict, reconstruction, peacebuilding

Return to war in South Sudan

Report in External Series | Apr 2014

While the crisis in South Sudan that started in December 2013 was triggered by a power struggle in the ruling party (SPLM), the causes for the rapid breakdown ...

Sudan

De Lauri Antonio

Research Professor, Coordinator

Humanitarianism and Borders;Anthropologist with interest in legal anthropology, freedom, war, humanitarianism

Legal anthropology, War, Humanitarianism, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East

Roads to Reconciliation

Edited Book | Jan 2005

The past two decades have witnessed the end of several civil wars and authoritarian regimes. In a period shaped by the ideal of democratisation, in which ...

Reconciliation, UN, transitional justice, Africa: Angola, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone., Asia: Cambodia, East Timor., Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina., Americas: Argentina, El Salvador

Hakimi Aziz

Associated researcher

Political sociologist whose research interests include war and state formation, government-backed militias, masculinities and marriage practices in Afghanistan

Gender, Humanitarianism, Afghanistan

Land Issues and Poverty Production: Requirements for Lasting Peace in Sudan and Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Nov 2007

During the last decade, an increasing share of foreign aid has been provided to countries coming out of civil war or experiencing severe conflict. Most ...

Afghanistan, Sudan

Syria's refugees in Lebanon: Brothers, burden and bone of contention

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

The Syrian civil war has displaced more than one million Syrians as refugees in Lebanon. Lebanon has not set up formal camps, but instituted a “non–camp” ...

displacement, refugees, camps, non-camp, Lebanon, Syria

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

Economic growth in Angola to 2017: The main challenges

Angola Brief | Dec 2012

This article argues that Angola’s “golden age” of tremendous post-war growth (2002-2008) has come to an end. Growth will at best be ...

Angola

The New Asylum Dilemma: Refugee, War Criminal or Terrorist?

CMI Brief | Jan 2006

After 9/11 and following terrorist attacks a new problem has presented itself with great force: How can Western states - like Norway - guarantee fair ...

Human rights, asylum, terrorists

Afghan refugees: Victims of shifting politics

Book Chapter | Jan 2004

A large number of Afghans have now been refugees for more than 23 years. Some have never seen their homeland and some have repeatedly been forced to leave ...

Refugees, Forced migration, Asia: Afghanistan