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Prospects for peace in a petro-state: Gas extraction and participation in violence in Tanzania
CMI Brief | Dec 2017
Significant petroleum discoveries in Tanzania have shaped the country’s political discourse in recent years, with politicians promising to turn ...
violence, natural resources, petroleum, politics, Mtwara, Tanzania
COVID-19 and the urgent need to protect Sudanese women against violence
Sudan Brief | Jul 2020
Three decades of Islamist rule institutionalized a culture of violence against women in Sudan. The COVID-19 pandemic and state instructed lockdown has ...
COVID-19, Coronavirus, domestic violence, pandemic, abuse, violence, Sudan
Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Sudan Working Paper | Sep 2016
Civilians’ Survival Strategies amid Institutionalized Insecurity and Violence in the Nuba Mountains
Nuba, violence, insecurity, Sudan, South Sudan
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
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 ...
women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda
Violência contra a mulher no contexto da pobreza urbana em Angola
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
A violência contra as mulheres é uma prática generalizada em Angola, pouco se sabendo ainda sobre a perceção que as ...
poverty, women, violence, Angola, Luanda
Sexual violence and state violence against women in Egypt, 2011-2014
CMI Insight | Sep 2014
Egyptian women were crucial to the movement that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 revolution. However, both in the revolutionary ...
Revolution, Arab spring, sexual assault, Egypt
Gender based violence in conflict-torn Sudan
Project | Apr - Dec 2011
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 ...
Sudan
Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon
Book Chapter | Jan 2012
Political violence in post-civil war Lebanon Are Knudsen and Nasser Yassin The peace in between. P
Lebanon
Local violence and international intervention in Sudan
Journal Article | Jun 2010
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 ...
Sudan
Gender-based violence in post-2001 Afghanistan
News | 1 Dec 2008
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.
Afghanistan
The ugly poetics of violence in post-accord Guatemala
Journal Article | Oct 2009
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 ...
Violence, poverty, post-accord, Guatemala
The peace in between. Post-war violence and peacebuilding
Edited Book | Jan 2012
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 ...
peacebuilding, peace and conflict, security, violence, conflict, war
The political economies of violence in post-war Liberia
Book Chapter | Jan 2012
The political economies of violence in post-war Liberia Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary The peace in be
Liberia
The multiple forms of violence in post-war Guatemala
Book Chapter | Jan 2012
The multiple forms of violence in post-war Guatemala John-Andrew McNeish and Oscar Lopez Rivera The
From impunity to prosecution? Sexual violence in Sudan beyond Darfur
Report in External Series | Mar 2012
Serious shortcomings in Sudanese laws and practices contribute to the lack of protection of victims of rape in Sudan. There is need for comprehensive ...
Sudan
The Pitfalls of protection. Gender, violence and power in Afghanistan
Book | May 2017
Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender ...
Afghanistan
Sexual violence in armed conflicts: research progress and remaining gaps
Journal Article | Jan 2017
Research on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) has grown rapidly over the last decade. This article consolidates existing social science research ...
A phenomenological exploration of lived experiences of violence in Northeast India
Journal Article | May 2021
A phenomenological exploration of lived experiences of violence in Northeast India Anwesha Dutta Sou
Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala
Book Chapter | Jan 2013
Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala Ra
Sexual violence, women, Justice, Guatemala
Does violence pay? The effect of ethnic rebellion on overcoming political deprivation
Journal Article | Jan 2016
Studies have found that politically deprived groups are more likely to rebel. However, does rebellion increase the likelihood of achieving political rights? ...