The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the ...

Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon Are Knudsen and Nasser Yassin The peace in between. P

The political economies of violence in post-war Liberia Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary The peace in be

Violence, denial and fear in post-genocide Rwanda Trine Eide The peace in between. Post-war violen

The multiple forms of violence in post-war Guatemala John-Andrew McNeish and Oscar Lopez Rivera The

During the last decade many Latin American countries have resorted to mano dura (iron fist) politics and militarisation to combat crime, drugs ...

Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala Ra

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

Colombian president Juan Manual Santos has claimed a new approach to security politics in the violence-ridden South American nation. This Insight ...

This chapter traces 30 years of transitional justice development following civil-military rule (1973–85) in Uruguay. The 1985 amnesty ...

A structured comparative analysis of one post-authoritarian case (Uruguay), two post-conflict cases (Rwanda and Angola), and one mixed case ...

In 2009, the international criminal court (ICC) warranted the arrest of Sudan’s sitting President indicting him for systematic and widespread ...

Gender and Violence in Post-Conflict Settings Torunn Wimpelmann Handbook on Gender and Violence Laur

Mainstream peacebuilding approaches tend to assume that a conflict settlement must be in place before the process of social and economic development ...

Visions of peace and the means of violence have been strategically joined at the very foundation of the international engagement in Afghanistan ...

Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains

Bangladesh has taken yet another turn on its downwards spiral from democracy to authoritarianism. On 8 February 2018, a Bangladeshi judge convicted ...

Previous research has established a link between oil production and armed conflict in low- and middle-income countries. Oil-related grievances ...

This report from the Global Centre for The Responsibility to Protect examines the entire sequence of events in Darfur and asks, first, why the world manifestly failed to stem the violence, and, secondly, what ought to have been done in the face of a state apparently determined to perpetrate atrocities upon its own people.

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries. How is police corruption linked to the wider processes of development - including crime, violence and poverty, asks Jens Chr. Andvig from NUPI and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad in this seminar.