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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …
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Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large...
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This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that …
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? Drawing on information on attitudes toward extreme violence and other characteristics of 30,787 individuals from 27 developing …
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Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, civil conflict, and violence have become increasingly global … Internationalization of Crime, Conflict, and Violence, offers a unified framework to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature … on crime, conflict, and violence and to discuss how the international community organizes itself to address security as a …
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. The authors hypothesize that it affects violence, misbehaviors, and academic outcomes by modulating emotional regulation …
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The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to...
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fragility, conflict and violence, entrepreneurs of small and medium-size experience chronic stress and poor mental health on a …
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This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and … face-to-face method. In Rwanda, intimate partner violence rates increase by 100 percent, and in Nigeria, they increase by … violence and biased correlations and treatment effect estimates …
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This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …
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