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The use of social accountability mechanisms by Syrian diaspora organizations providing aid in the Syrian crisis

Abdel-Samad, Mounah; Flanigan, Shawn Teresa - 2018

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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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2018

Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we...

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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...

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Violent urbanization and homogenization of space and place : reconstructing the story of sectarian violence in Beirut

Yassin, Nasser - 2010

This paper aims at understanding the dynamics of sectarian violence in the city of Beirut, by looking at the early phase of violence in the Lebanese civil war (1975-90), and the process of dividing Beirut into various sectarian enclaves controlled by the warring militias. The paper aims to show...

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European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings : a window of opportunity missed

Bodenstein, Thilo; Furness, Mark - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023

European official development assistance to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries increased sharply after 2011, ostensibly in support of the social, economic, and above all political changes demanded by the Arab uprisings. The subsequent turn to development policies driven by...

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The political legacies of wartime resistance : how local communities in Italy keep anti-fascist sentiments alive

Cremaschi, Simone; Masullo, Juan - 2023

Italy, a country whose democratic institutions were forged after a civil war (1943-45) fought between an armed resistance … movement and Nazi-Fascist forces. We argue that local experiences of resistance left anti-fascist legacies that can be … generations. Moreover, it emphasizes armed resistance as a critical source of war's longterm political legacies and explores …

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The violent legacy of fascism : neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969-88

Costalli, Stefano; Guariso, Daniele; Justino, Patricia; … - 2023

We still have limited knowledge about the long-term effects of fascism on European democracies. European countries 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...

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Theorizing revolution in democracies : evidence from the 2019 uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq

Berman, Chantal E.; Clarke, Killian; Majed, Rima - 2023

Scholarly logic holds that revolutionary movements are unlikely to break out in democracies, where citizens may simply remove unpopular leaders through elections. And yet the twenty-first century has witnessed a global series of uprisings against regimes that are nominally democratic-in that...

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Hidden hostility : donor attention and political violence

Anderson, Siwan; Francois, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2022

Political violence is a worldwide problem that has been on the rise over the past decade. The international dimension of domestic repression and dissent is a particularly relevant factor yet surprisingly understudied. In particular, governments that heavily depend on foreign aid may crack down...

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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...

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