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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
The overlooked role of elites in African grassroots conflicts: A case study of the Dinka-Mundari-Bari conflict in Southern SudanSudan 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
International Norms, Local DynamicsProject | 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
Conflicting Peaces: Engaging with Diversities in Friction
Conflicting Peaces: Engaging with Diversities in FrictionJournal 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 ...
Knudsen Are John
Knudsen Are JohnSenior 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
Suhrke AstriEmerita
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
Cycles of violence? Three issues and a question
Cycles of violence? Three issues and a questionNews | 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
More complex conflict drivers than environment and climateJournal 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.
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
Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1960 to 2008
Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1960 to 2008Journal Article | Jan 2013
We investigate whether uranium, similar to other resources, is associated with armed conflicts. The analysis uses grid cells in Africa to test ...
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 ...
Koos Carlo
Koos CarloSenior Researcher
Political scientist focusing on conflict, peace and development
politicial violence, international development, gender equality, DR Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan
Citizenship, statelessness, and human rights protection in Sudan's constitutions and post South Sudan secession challenges
Citizenship, statelessness, and human rights protection in Sudan's constitutions and post South Sudan secession challengesBook Chapter | Jan 2019
Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian ...
Sudan, South Sudan
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