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analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
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What accounts for armed violence in the aftermath of civil war? Efforts to develop a comprehensive framework to …-war, wartime, and post-war sources of violence in the aftermath of war. This paper focuses on organized political violence after … war and argues that such violence is shaped by a combination of pre-war, wartime, and post-war dynamics. Post-war contexts …
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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?...
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re-ignite violence. We study who perceives gains and losses in political representation in Rwanda and Burundi and why. We …The lack of political representation often lies at the origin of identity-based violence, and, when not resolved, can … both countries, we observe a sharp drop in perceived political representation in the run-up to and during violence, and a …
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decades through a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi whose civil wars terminated through military victory and …
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This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war …. Using several rounds of (panel) data at the farm and community level, we find that farmers in Burundi who are confronted … with civil war violence in their home communities increase export and cash crop growing activities, invest more in public …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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development and provides considerable resources to reduce armed conflicts. However, other forms of violence, such as suicide … time, scholars in the field of public health have been arguing for putting selfdirected and interpersonal violence higher … and recipients have so far neither recognized self-directed nor interpersonal violence as a major development issue …
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