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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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from military history. As the world moves toward multiple poles of growth, the multilateral institutions will need to play …
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, and entry points to mainstreaming citizen engagement in fragility,conflict, and violence (FCV) contexts. It does not …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Reform leaders who want to pursue technically sound policies are confronted with the problem of getting myriad government agencies, staffed by thousands of bureaucrats and state personnel, to deliver. This paper provides a framework for thinking about the problem as a series of interdependent...
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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 …
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