This paper explores how the private sector can positively contribute to peace-building and conflict prevention, and how … exists in all conflict situations and has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate conflict, the outcome of which can … private sector in fragile and conflict-affected states, beginning with its role in the conflicts themselves, and in the …

deficiencies contribute to state fragility and exacerbate constraints on the capacity to provide basic services, public security … manage political conflict. Indeed, the lack of data can worsen conflict, since violent settings pose substantial challenges … Sudan. It begins by posing several questions on the political economy of data and then sets out a framework for assessing …

economic, social, physical, and mental well-being. This study assesses the impact of the post-2013 conflict in South Sudan on …Violent conflict and instability affect men and women in heterogeneous ways, including differentiated impacts on … Conflict Location and Event Data to measure conflict exposure using constructed cluster-level, self-reported, and external …

from military history. As the world moves toward multiple poles of growth, the multilateral institutions will need to play …

, and entry points to mainstreaming citizen engagement in fragility,conflict, and violence (FCV) contexts. It does not …

This case study examines contemporary experiences of conflict in four contexts: Papua New Guinea, with particular …. Melanesia offers distinctive lessons about how conflict may be understood, promoted and avoided. The paper is organized in two … broad parts. The first part is contextual. It provides a brief account of conflict and violence in social life before and …

This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper … benefits are unobserved. In contrast, many other shocks in the conflict literature are persistent and unanticipated, thus also … estimates of the effect of harvest shocks on conflict intensity in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan using subnational variation …

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data, including a detailed … that conflict has on health and expectations. Based on this evidence, it develops a statistical framework to track the … cumulative long-term impact that armed conflict has on poverty, which the paper calls conflict debt. The data confirm that …

aid and conflict shows that this strategy is susceptible to bias arising from spurious trends. Re-randomization and Monte … causal in the opposite direction, invalidating the claim that aid causes conflict and providing a caution for similar …