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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model … to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the …
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leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is …
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This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014 -- a period...
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revenue are slow to recover, and military expenditures are not easily reduced. As a result, there is little or no peace … dividend in the short run. The period of transition to peace is a particularly suitable time for radical policy reform, despite … delayed despite being financeable. The transition to peace is primarily the transition from fear and the defensive responses …
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Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace … hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by … similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local …
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The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver better results on the ground, it is necessary to...
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the content of the 2015 Peace Accord reflects the concerns and priorities of the citizens, local leaders, and refugees, or … measures stipulated in the Peace Accord align. The greatest divergence between citizen preferences and actions specified in the … Peace Accord is the emphasis in the latter on road infrastructure. When different activities are costed, this disconnect …
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Can changing the rules of the game affect government performance? This paper studies the impact of a simple procedural reform on the efficiency and quality of adjudication in Senegal. The reform gave judges the duty and powers to conclude pre-trial proceedings within a four-month deadline. The...
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an empirical mapping of local conflict and justice and pointers to possible policy reforms. It suggests a number of … opportunities for strengthening local justice and argues that the village courts may pose a useful bridge between Bangladesh …'s informal and formal justice institutions …
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The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers' attitudes toward inequality? The Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody one particular set of value judgments. Generalizing these indexes allows...
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