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Power, institutions, and state-building after war : a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi
McDoom, Omar - 2023
decades through a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi whose civil wars terminated through military victory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549789
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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility : the case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States
Bankston, Carl L., III.; Zhou, Min - 2018
resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic community. We then provide a quantitative analysis of socioeconomic mobility … among Vietnamese refugees using American Community Survey data from 1980 to 2015 and survey data. We examine how this ethnic …, occupation, and income. Third, we seek to explain what enables Vietnamese refugees and their children to overcome initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789044
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Mothers at peace : post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2022
fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the … investigate whether the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers affects fertility in post-conflict settings. We study the case … peacekeepers have lower fertility rates in the deployment period. Furthermore, peacekeeping improves child health and fosters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441742
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Civic legacies of wartime governance
Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019
In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152046
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Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies : the reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia
Larmin, Augustine T.; Banini, Daniel Kofi - 2022
This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461891
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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru
Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022
How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461999
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Needs vs expediency : poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries
Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, … - 2015
Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316660
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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization
Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016
We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Our work varies from conventional impact evaluation studies because of the inclusion of two post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489250
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Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societies
Justino, Patricia - 2022
To date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes. This paper explores one such dynamics-the forms of governance exercised by armed groups during wartime-and proposes a theoretical framework outlining how forms of wartime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191466
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The economic legacy of civil war : firm level evidence from Sierra Leone
Collier, Paul; Duponchel, Marguerite - 2010
This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662169