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The overlooked role of elites in African grassroots conflicts: A case study of the Dinka-Mundari-Bari conflict in Southern Sudan

Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2014

Many analysts of grassroots conflicts in African emphasized one of the following factors to be the most important: ethnic divisions, competition ...

Local conflict, elites, ethnic divisions, Sudan

International Norms, Local Dynamics

Project | Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

After the end of the Cold War armed conflict steadily declined; however, since 2007 that trend has reversed. New conflicts in countries with ...

local peacebuilding, conflict-affected countries, rights-based peacebuilding, Nepal, South Africa, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, South/Southeast Asia, Africa

Knudsen Are John

Senior Researcher

Social anthropologist focusing on peace, conflict and forced migration in South Asia and the Middle East

Islamism, peacebuilding, post-conflict violence, retributive justice, honour killings, refugees and IDPs, forced migration, micro-foundations of conflict and violence, Asia: Pakistan, Middle East: Lebanon, Palestine, Syria (refugees, IDPs)

Suhrke Astri

Senior Researcher

Political scientist focusing on the social, political and humanitarian consequences of violent conflict, and strategies of response.

Comparative international politics, migration/refugee movements, refugees in asylum, human rights, minorities, ethnic conflict, humanitarian assistance and conflict, conflict management, political risk, Asia: Afghanistan, Nepal

Conflicting Peaces: Engaging with Diversities in Friction

Journal Article | Dec 2013

While the central question of diversity has often been how to live in peace with difference, we approach the question — what happens when ...

Plurality of Peaces, Conflict Transformation, Diversity, Security, Violence, Mysticism, Harmony

Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding

Report in External Series | Feb 2009

What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich ...

Natural resource management, natural resource wealth, resource curse, rentier state, oil, diamonds, armed conflict, war economies, conflict financing, CSR, peacebuilding

Rethinking natural resource conflicts

Report in External Series | Nov 2010

In this thematic paper I will reconsider the connections between natural resources and conflict. Aimed at producing a state of the art review ...

Natural Resource, Conflict

Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå?

Journal Article | Jan 2017

Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå? - Nr 01 - 2017 - Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift - Idunn - tidsskrifter på ...

Cycles of violence? Three issues and a question

News | 2 May 2011

Astri Suhrke and Ingrid Samset challenge the analysis in the World Development Report: What is the purpose of this statistical analysis? Good policy must be based on nuanced research.

Humanitarian assistance and conflict: A state-of-the-art-report

CMI Report | Jan 1998

The rapid growth of international aid allocated to "complex humanitarian emergencies" has led to parallel calls for preventive action. It is ...

Emergency relief, Humanitarian aid, Conflicts, Conflict prevention, Non-governmental organisations, Norway

More complex conflict drivers than environment and climate

Journal Article | Jun 2012

While there is a connection between climate variability and conflict in Sudan, the effects are played out in interaction with other conflict-promoting ...

Sudan

Economic Aid to Post-conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler.

Journal Article | Jan 2005

This paper retests the analysis of "Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies," by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming ...

aid policy, post-conflict, peacebuilding

Assessing NGOs in conflict resolution - a review of the Centre for Conflict Resolution's Africa project

Project | Jan - Jun 2000

A review of the Africa project implemented by the Centre for Conflict Resolution. The project focuses on conflict resolution in several African ...

Community-Driven Development in Contexts of Conflict

CMI Report | Jan 2003

Violent conflict represents a significant barrier to development. While Community Driven Development (CDD) programmes have been effective in ...

Community driven development, Conflict, Poverty, Reconstruction, Development

NGOs in conflict- an evaluation of International Alert

CMI Report | Jan 1997

This evaluation of International Alert (IA) - an international NGO based in London, working to prevent and resolve conflict in developing countries ...

NGO, Conflict resolution

Conflict of Interests or Interests in Conflict? Diamonds & War in the DRC

Journal Article | Jan 2002

The article explores how the exploitation of mineral resources such as diamonds contributed to prolonging the armed conflict that broke out ...

Natural resources, diamonds, duration of war, armed conflict, DR Congo, Great Lakes region

When Neighbours become Killers. Land Redistribution, Ethnicity and Communal Violence in Kibaale District, Uganda

Master's Thesis | Jan 2006

The point of departure is a local incident of ethnic violence in Kibaale District in western Uganda. Very few people were killed, yet it received ...

Ethnic groups, Ethnic conflicts, Violence, Africa: Uganda

Regulating conflicts of interest in challenging environments: The case of Azerbaijan

U4 Issue | Feb 2010

Current approaches to regulating conflicts of interest, often encouraged by international anti-corruption standards, are commonly judged by ...

political corruption, Azerbaijan

Beyond numbers? Women's 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict Sudan

Journal Article | Aug 2011

This article explores the validity of critical mass theory in the context of a 25% women’s quota in the national parliament in post-conflict ...

post-conflict Sudan, critical mass theory, women's representation, Sudan

After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy

Book | Apr 2015

The field of transitional justice has recently seen a surge of interest in the issues of effectiveness and impact. This book examines the effects ...

transitional justice, democracy, peace, human rights violations, accountability, conflict, post-authoritarian, post-conflict, Uruguay, Peru, Rwanda, Angola