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Rethinking the climate-conflict connection
“Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world … US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and...
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Governance and post-conflict reconstruction in Northern Uganda
Gulu: Governance and Post-conflict Reconstruction Conference. Photo: Acholi Times On 07 and 08 November, a conference on governance and post-conflict reconstruction took place in Gulu, hosted by the...
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The Boundaries of Evidence in Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
By Jeroen Adam In The Asia Foundation’s recent report, “Subnational Conflict and International Development Assistance,” the authors argue that a sustainable solution to the many subnational conflicts...
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Practice Without Evidence: interrogating conflict resolution approaches and...
By Tatiana Carayannis, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Nathaniel Olin, Anouk Rigterink and Mareike Schomerus What is the evidence that existing approaches to the resolution of violent conflict have achieved...
View ArticleCan ‘Context-Specific’ Security Programming Handle the Reality of Dynamic...
By Mareike Schomerus This piece originally appeared as part of ODI’s Development Progress series ‘What role for security in development progress?’. It’s an easy point to make: current programmes on...
View ArticleTim Allen on the Importance of Fieldwork
In an interview with The Economist‘s Prospero blog, JSRP Research Director Tim Allen underlines the crucial role serious fieldwork should play in underpinning international development policy and...
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Understanding Violence by African Government Forces: The Need for a...
By Judith Verweijen Photo: Judith Verweijen Remarkably, there are few in-depth studies of the forms and processes underlying violent practices enacted by African government forces. This indicates that...
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The UN’s Darfur “Cover-up” and the Need for Reliable Conflict Data
By Alex de Waal International peacekeeping operations are deployed to complicated and troubled places. Often, reliable information is scarce, rumors and poorly-founded allegations are common, and...
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South Sudan: A Slow Liberation
By Edward Thomas Twentieth-century Sudan was Africa’s conflicted behemoth: a landmass of one million square miles; societies rich with interconnections and contradictions; and a highly unequal economic...
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Mobutu’s Lingering Legacy in Gbadolite
By Aaron Pangburn A Memorial to Mobutu in Gbadolite’s Central Square. Photo by Mignonne Fowlis. As we approach the 50th anniversary of President Mobutu Sese Seko’s rise to power, and the debates over...
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Preventing land dispossession in Africa: do we need stronger justice mechanisms?
By Moses Adonga, Rachel Ibreck and Godfrey Victor Bulla There has been a global awakening to the opportunities and costs of land grabs in Africa. Academics and activists are duly investigating the...
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Corruption, Protest and Militancy
Corruption is not a victimless crime. With the effects of corruption and money laundering very much on the agenda of recent speeches by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, and with growing public and...
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Myths Set in Motion: The Moral Economy of Mai-Mai Governance
In the newly published edited volume Rebel Governance in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2015), JSRP researcher Kasper Hoffmann contributes a chapter about Mai Mai rebels’ governance of...
View ArticleMary Kaldor Reacts to the Paris Attacks
Writing for The Nation today on “Why Another ‘War on Terror’ Won’t Work“, Mary Kaldor, JSRP CEO and Professor of Global Governance at LSE, bemoans what she describes as an “anachronistic and...
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From ‘Autochthony’ to Violence? ‘Sons of the Soil’ Discourses and Practices...
Claims of being ‘sons of the soil’ or ‘indigenous’ inhabitants as opposed to ‘foreigners’ play a prominent role in violent conflict around the world. Yet, as this blog argues, the violence occurring in...
View ArticleDorothea Hilhorst Provides Expert Briefing to the UN on Sexual Violence...
On Wednesday 27th January, Professor Dorothea Hilhorst will give an expert briefing in New York at the UN on a major forthcoming report co-funded by the Justice and Security Research Programme (JSRP),...
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Book: Making Sense of the Central African Republic
The JSRP is proud to introduce a new volume on the Central African Republic edited by our Research Director, Tatiana Carayannis, and Yale University Associate Professor, Louisa Lombard. Lying at the...
View ArticleElections in Uganda 2016: Rumours and the Terror of the Unknown
Henni Alava and Cecilie Lanken Verma explore what is needed to secure a relatively peaceful election in Uganda, and what this may mean in the long-run. Two parallel realities appear to exist in...
View ArticleGetting the Balance Right? Sexual Violence Response in the DRC: A comparison...
Conflict-related sexual violence has scarred the lives of a very large number of victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This study compared the effects and effectiveness of sexual violence...
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Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International...
JSRP Research Director Tatiana Carayannis reviews Séverine Autesserre (2014) Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention, Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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