Significant petroleum discoveries in Tanzania have shaped the country’s political discourse in recent years, with politicians promising ...

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

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...

A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção ...

Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...

While the passage of various UN Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009) and 1889 (2009) on women, peace and security are important ...

Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary won a PhD-grant to study the impact of decades of war and the particular features of the post-Taliban order on women's vulnerability to violence both in public and private places.

The efforts of the international community to build peace in Sudan have been frustrated by the failure to stop the violence in Darfur, continuous ...

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

With the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996 Guatemala's credentials of democratic governance was re-established, but as media reports and ...

This volume examines the causes and purposes of 'post-conflict' violence. The end of a war is generally expected to be followed by an end to ...

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

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Serious shortcomings in Sudanese laws and practices contribute to the lack of protection of victims of rape in Sudan. There is need for comprehensive ...

Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for ...

Research on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) has grown rapidly over the last decade. This article consolidates existing social science ...

What are the links between various transitional justice mechanisms and the degree of violence and reconciliation in the post-war or post-authoritarian period?

A scholarship is offered to a master student in social sciences, law or gender studies to conduct fieldwork and write a master thesis on a topic related to gender based violence in northern Sudan.

The 2007 general elections in Kenya were fiercely disputed and triggered widespread violence throughout the country. After former UN Secretary-General, ...

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