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Creating Multilevel Security Governance in South America

Flemes, Daniel; Radseck, Michael - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate conflicts and transnational threats. Though located at different systemic levels (national, international, transnational), the three conflict clusters are often interrelated and tend to overlap...

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The Production of Insecurity by African Security Forces: Insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic

Mehler, Andreas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state’s security forces on the security of African citizens. Reports about security forces’ contribution to widespread insecurity are frequent: the protectors become violators and their appearance causes fear, not security. In many...

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Reshaping Political Space? The Impact of the Armed Insurgency in the Central African Republic on Political Parties and Representation

Mehler, Andreas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

war and the peace process. Patterns of elite behavior are presented as the main explanation for the resulting crisis of …

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Spatial Clustering Of NGOs: An Evolutionary Economic Geography Approach

Koch, Dirk-Jan; Ruben, Ruerd - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2008

Strong patterns of concentration characterize the location decisions of development NGOs. Since current theories on non-profit location choice tend to neglect such tendencies, this article develops an evolutionary economic geography approach to non-profit organizations. It focuses on increasing...

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Not Always in the People’s Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements

Mehler, Andreas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve third-party mediators during the negotiation stage and often peacekeeping troops to guarantee the agreement at an implementation stage. Peace roundtables usually involve top politicians and...

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Breaking the “Insecurity Trap”? How Violence and Counter-violence are Perpetuated in Elite Power Struggles

Mehler, Andreas - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

government tries to prevent reentry by all means. This contribution draws a dense picture of elite (in)security in three African … countries (Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia). A comparative analysis of elite security needs and devices is … guards, etc.) in breaking the insecurity trap by providing special elite-protection services is obvious. The record of …

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Profil et corrélats de la pauvreté en République Centrafricaine en 2008

Backiny-Yetna, Prospere; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper presents a basic profile and analysis of the correlates of poverty in the Central African Republic using data from the Central African survey for the monitoring and evaluation of well-being conducted in 2008 by the Central African Institute of Statistics and Economic and Social...

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Impact de la crise économique en République Centrafricaine: Analyse quantitative et qualitative / Impact of the Economic Crisis in the Central African Republic: Quantitative and Qualitative analyses

Salmon, Léa; Tebero, Josias; Wodon, Quentin - In: Perspective Afrique 5 (2010) 1-3, pp. 1-26

Cet article analyse l'impact de la crise économique sur la situation des ménages en République centrafricaine en se basant sur une analyse quantitative de la dernière enquête auprès des ménages et une analyse qualitative basée sur des données provenant de groupes de discussion. Trois...

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Profil et corrélats de la pauvreté en République Centrafricaine en 2008 / Profile and Correlates of Poverty in the Central African Republic in 2008

Backiny-Yetna, Prospere; Wodon, Quentin - In: Perspective Afrique 5 (2010) 1-3, pp. 1-28

Ce papier présente un profil de base et une analyse des corrélats de la pauvreté en République Centrafricaine à partir des données de l’enquête centrafricaine pour le suivi-évaluation du bien-être réalisée en 2008 par l’Institut Centrafricain des Statistiques et des Etudes...

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Is the god of diamonds alone? The role of institutions in artisanal mining in forest landscapes, Congo Basin

Schure, Jolien; Ingram, Verina; Tieguhong, Julius Chupezi; … - In: Resources Policy 36 (2011) 4, pp. 363-371

This paper examines the institutional framework of artisanal mining in the forests of the Sangha Tri-National Landscape (TNS) in the Congo Basin. Artisanal miners in Cameroon and the Central African Republic (CAR) commonly make sacrifices to their god of diamonds, to improve fortunes. This study...

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