process of autonomous recovery in which states achieve a lasting peace, a systematic reduction in violence, and post-war … great powers, but also from the disorder, violence, and oppression wrought by governments (or occurring in the absence of … underlying assumptions that have escaped serious consideration: the idea the countries cannot recover from conflict on their own …

Thanks to sustained economic growth and key investments in military capabilities, India will face growing demands from … likely to guide India's future behavior will be a mixture of old and new, eastern and western. India's international … explored for its enduring significance. India's relevance as a security actor is assessed in terms of its activities and …

analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where … review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime institutions; and on the private sector in conflict. Future …

We estimate the causal effect of a large cash assistance program for refugee returnees on conflict in Afghanistan. The … unreleased combat records, we find that policy-induced refugee return had cross-cutting effects, reducing insurgent violence, but … increasing social conflict. The program's cash benefits were substantial and may have raised reservation wages in communities …

In the past two decades, there has been a growing engagement between development and human rights practitioners and …-fertilization and learning—the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) themselves being a fruit of this convergence? This note addresses … three points. The first point is the growing convergence between human rights and development thinking along several …

analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where … review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime institutions; and on the private sector in conflict. Future …

Since the end of the Cold War, international efforts to end civil conflict in Africa, Latin America and Asia have … future conflict. In this working paper, CGD Non-Resident Fellow Jeremy Weinstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science at … Stanford University, analyzes for the first time what determines the success of post-conflict demobilization and reintegration …