Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has hovered low on governance-related indices for many years. In 2010, the country scored 2.0 out ...

Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, Ramallah/Palestine, and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen/Norway, have ...

This Ph.D. project focuses on the various forms of popular culture in Dar es Salam and the role of these new cultural forms in identity- building ...

This report examines Sudan's popular consultation, an ongoing process whereby the people of the Sudanese states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile will democratically and popularly assess the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and determine whether it satisfactorily reflects the aspirations of the people.

The aim of this seminar is to take stock of the situation in Guatemala regarding poverty, security and indigenous rights and analyze the root causes of the disappointing developments following the signing of the peace accords in 1996.

How has scholarship on state fragility influenced the policies of influential international actors? Roland Paris, one of the most influential scholars on post-war reconstruction and peacebuilding, challenges the relationship between research and policy.

Rich in diamonds, yet abundant in poverty, Mathias de Alencastro looks at Angola's state-building efforts in the diamond-rich province of Luanda.

Post-war reconstruction sometimes focus on what is commonly called statebuilding, i.e. establishing an effective, central state that operates ...

The post-Taliban democratic reforms in Afghanistan were in part a recreation of the past. Afghanistan has had six constitutions between 1923 ...

Since the early 1990s, many countries in Anglophone Africa have established (semi-) autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally ...

This working paper provides a review of the literature addressing the role of civil society or non-state actors in democratic consolidation, ...

The report introduces a theoretical framework for analysis, and then discusses how Pakistan and Norway define governance and good governance ...

Across Latin America, debates and practice around indigenous law provide a window on shifting relations between indigenous movements, states, ...

Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The book discusses ...

Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses ...

In spite of the economic and social policy successes of Latin America’s longest surviving democracy, corruption has become a major problem ...

Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local ...

This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion ...

The traditional native justice system in Darfur has an advantage over the modern state judicial one; it has proved its relevance for effectively ...