It is often said that a country that has experienced civil war has nearly a 50 per cent risk of sliding back into war within five years. This has been ...

This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality ...

the workshop will examine why Lebanon becomes trapped in externally driven cycles of regional and international political conflict and what the international community can do to break the cycle of violence.

This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference ...

This paper first identifies trends and patterns in the growth of the secondary and higher secondary schools in Bangladesh, while differentiating between ...

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.

What are the main implications for the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies and practices of recent evidence regarding corruption and private, state-backed ...

 It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. The ...

This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue ...

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 relationship between war(s) and migration is complicated by the fact that neither of the two are monolithic phenomena and the relationship between ...

This evaluation of the three Scandinavian Statistical Central Bureaus to Instituto Nacional Estatistico (INE) in Mozambique concludes that the project, ...

This article analyses political assassinations in post-civil war Lebanon. Targeted assassinations intensified during the transitional period from war ...

This article analyses how state and non-state actors have tried to address the human rights violations and war crimes committed during the civil war in ...

In this Practice Insight, the author discusses post-war corruption challenges based on the reconstruction effort and return of refugees in Bosnia and ...

As pointed out by Roeder and Rothchild (P. G. Roeder and D. Rothchild (eds), Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (New York: ...

This report addresses governance issues in post-war situations as these are dealt with in three sets of literature: - the growing case-based knowledge ...

Paper prepared for the seminar "After War: Reconciliation and Democratization in Divided Societies - Lessons learned", Solstrand 27-29 March 2000

Special Issue of the journal "Antropologia"

Review of the book: Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War, by Richardo Soares de Oliveira.  New York: Oxford University Press, ...