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Opposition visions for preserving Syrias ethnic-sectarian mosaic
Mahmoud, Rustum; Rosiny, Stephan - 2015
The excessive violence that has spread across virtually all of Syria since the 2011 uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad has so far prevented a serious debate about feasible solutions. Most political factions fear that any talk of a compromise solution will undermine their own position...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377587
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Fleeing the peace? : determinants of outward migration after civil war
Haaß, Felix; Kurtenbach, Sabine; Strasheim, Julia - 2016
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 … the major drivers of outward migration after civil war. Complementary evidence from the two case studies shows that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518805
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Oligopolies of violence in post-conflict societies
Lambach, Daniel - 2007
In post-conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the state as well as various non-state formations. The paper identifies three types of post-conflict societies and analyses dynamics of the security market in cases where international troops have intervened. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907571
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The politics of institutional reform and post-conflict violence in Nepal
Strasheim, Julia - 2017
How does the reform of state institutions shape prospects for peace after war? Existing research on the institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584141
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Domestic explanations for war and peace in Ukraine
Strasheim, Julia - 2016
Why did Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution initiate a peaceful democratic transition, while the 2014 protests were followed by violent conflict? This paper complements previous studies on Russia's role in Ukraine by focusing on domestic explanations of the recent violence. It shows that structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488179
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What do we know about sexual violence in armed conflicts? : recent empirical progress and remaining gaps in peace and conflict research
Koos, Carlo - 2015
Since the war in Bosnia‐Herzegovina and the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict has received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283036
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Mapping political violence : the approaches and conceptual challenges of subnational geospatial analyses of intrastate conflict
Juan, Alexander de - 2012
. -- civil war ; political violence ; geospatial analysis ; subnational analysis ; causality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009682839
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Brutalisation as a survival strategy : how the "Islamic State" is prolonging its doomsday battle
Rosiny, Stephan - 2016
The recent bomb attacks at the Istanbul airport (28 June 2016), in a tourist cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2 July), and in Bagdad (3 July) were part of a "Ramadan campaign" announced by the spokesman of the self‐declared “Islamic State” caliphate in late May 2016. This series of attacks was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502740
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Assets, shocks, and poverty traps in rural Mozambique
Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698334
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Assets, shocks, and poverty traps in rural Mozambique
Giesbert, Lena - 2010
Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural … the civil war, which has consolidated unfavorable economic conditions in rural areas and limited new economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908624