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This study examines the geographical and temporal evolution of violence in which pastoralists are engaged. Building … pastoralist groups were involved, this paper provides a regional report on wider patterns of pastoralist violence over the last … two decades. Pastoralist violence has both expanded and intensified in the region, as is evidenced by the rapid increase …
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Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. This is also true in West Africa … and contentious crises. The result though is consistent: such targeted violence has worrying implications for women …’s political participation as well as their involvement in the public sphere. Political violence targeting women (PVTW) in West …
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We study the impact of electoral gender quotas in post-war Burundi and Rwanda on women's political representation. First, we look at descriptive representation by studying the number of female representatives and the prestige of their positions in the legislative and executive branches of...
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Recent advances in political science and economics highlight the role of historical events in shaping contemporary political and economic outcomes. This article joins the growing literature by utilizing disaggregated data and mediation analysis to explore the causal mechanisms bridging ethnic...
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conflicts in Africa since the end of the Cold War by using the 2005 post-election violence in Ethiopia as a case study. In … ruling EPRDF party “won” the elections through violence, involving intimidation, manipulation, detentions of political … opponents, torture, and political assassinations. The 2005 electoral violence was the worst electoral violence in the country …
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History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), while there are also cases of dictators who have displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We show that such mutations can result from rational...
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Violence against women is increasingly recognized as a threat to democracy, a barrier to lasting peace, a burden on … the field of gender violence underscore that violence against women and girls is the manifestation of structural … Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls - EVAWG programming. Outcomes of processes on the MDGs and now Sustainable …
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democratic alternation of power); the setting up of sound institutions that characterise “modern” societies; control of violence … » ; contrôle de la violence ; expression des aspirations économiques et citoyennes de la population. Trois entraves structurelles s …
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democratic alternation of power); the setting up of sound institutions that characterise “modern” societies; control of violence …
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