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Given unsuccessful experiences to date in establishing large-scale investments for biofuels in Zambia, this paper explores the social constraints that may hinder future efforts to use the same models. The author reviews the legal framework that has guided the establishment of most agricultural...
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In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic...
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How does wartime victimization shape victims' political attitudes in the long run? We argue that violence increases …
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I explore the long-term effects of internal displacement caused by the Kurdish-Turkish conflict on women's attitudes … towards domestic violence. Using the Turkish Demographic and Health Survey, I show that forced migrants are more likely to … view domestic violence as acceptable. As suggestive evidence, I use data from applicants to a women's shelter and show that …
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This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...
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This paper presents data from a study of Syrian diaspora organizations providing assistance to conflict-affected Syrians in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Using interview data from leaders in three Syrian diaspora non-profit organizations, this paper examines the social mechanisms...
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Bridging the gap between humanitarian assistance and development cooperation has been a contentious issue in academia and development practice for decades. Drawing on an evaluation of Germany's 'Partnership for Prospects' initiative, this paper argues that, whilst the supplement of...
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that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that … argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …
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analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
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experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during … fascism? We study whether and how the Italian fascist experience of the 1920s affected political violence during the 1970s and … regime-predicts neofascist political violence at the provincial level more than 40 years later. New windows of opportunity …
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