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

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 out in ...

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

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 step in the ...

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

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

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.

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

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 collective ...

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

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

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 Afghan gender ...

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

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

Studies have found that politically deprived groups are more likely to rebel. However, does rebellion increase the likelihood of achieving political rights? ...

The armed conflict between the Sudan government and rebel groups in Darfur erupted in 2003. Escalating violence included sexual assaults on women. Many ...

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