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In countries where civil war has formally ended, not all refugees return. Nor does emigration come to a halt. Why? We … argue that three specific features of post‐war situations explain the varying levels of outward migration: the quality of … peace, the quality of political institutions, and the quality of economic livelihoods. We test our hypotheses using a mixed …
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, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis of their effects on democracy and peace. Theoretically, particularistic …
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The involvement of business in peace negotiations and peacebuilding has become a standard concern for countries … peace processes in Colombia - a country that has been engulfed by conflict for almost five decades. The present paper … illustrates how business perceptions and behavior have evolved throughout various attempts at negotiating peace, revealing that …
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Much of recent international relations literature argues conflicts to achieve or to frustrate regional dominance will become more virulent in the future. In this context we examine different approaches in international relations theory regarding the role and importance which they attribute to...
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Ausgehend von der in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur artikulierten Erwartung, dass Konflikte um die Durchsetzung oder Verhinderung regionaler Vorherrschaft in der Zukunft an Virulenz zunehmen werden, wird die Rolle und Bedeutung regionaler Führungsmächte im Rahmen verschiedener theoretischer...
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wurde: Ziel der Terrorstrategie war nunmehr die indirekte Vernichtung durch die soziokulturelle Neuordnung des …
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The concept of "structural stability" has been gaining prominence in development policy circles. In the EU's and the OECD Development Assistance Committee's (OECD DAC) understanding, it describes the ability of societies to handle intra-societal conflict without resorting to violence. This study...
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effects in many cases, yet more often they become active for peace. Religious identities and ideas seem to have a particular … ; ambivalence ; civil war ; violent conflict …
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This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya's political parties and its party system since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald Horowitz and distinguishes between three party types: the...
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The termination of war is mostly seen as a basis not just for recovery but for a fundamental transformation or change … in development paths towards peace, stability and development. The Central American peace processes of the last decades … were one of the first laboratories for the liberal peace-building paradigm which assumes that the threefold transformation …
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