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The paths and legacies of civil war
Civil wars leave enduring legacies for social networks, political identities, preferences, and attitudes. Their impacts on public perceptions of peace...
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Foreign aid and peacebuildingForeign aid is a core component of peacebuilding and among the largest external financial flows to fragile states and conflict-affected areas. Nevertheless, troubling critiques have been raised about its overall impact and effectiveness. Some of the...
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Working together on the puzzle of peace: The role of partnerships
When the theme for the first WIDER Development Conference of 2022—peace, security, and conflict—was chosen some years ago, no one could have predicted...
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Development aid cuts will hit fragile countries hard, could fuel violent conflictFragile and least developed countries have had their development assistance cut drastically, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
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Development Assistance for PeacebuildingThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations. Development assistance...
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Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after ConflictPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
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The National Solidarity ProgrammePart of Book Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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The Yemen Social Fund for DevelopmentPart of Book Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police ReformPart of Book Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Impact Assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales Programme in NicaraguaPart of Book Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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The World Bank’s Health Projects in Timor-LestePart of Book Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Trust the hand that protects you—Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments’ legitimacy?Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has stepped in to support post-conflict states in rebuilding state capacity, sometimes replacing governments in providing public goods. Most...
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States of disorderWhy is the recent track record of state-building so poor? Over the past decade, international interventions in Afghanistan, Somalia, Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have not resulted in...
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International development assistance and the inclusivity paradox in fragile and conflict-affected statesThe principle of inclusive development lies at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular Goal 16, with its focus on inclusive societies backed by inclusive institutions. Yet despite its ubiquity across the SDGs...
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Forced migration, aid effectiveness, and the humanitarian–development nexusBridging the gap between humanitarian assistance and development cooperation has been a contentious issue in academia and development practice for decades. Drawing on an evaluation of Germany’s ‘Partnership for Prospects’ initiative, this paper...
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Legal empowerment and horizontal inequalities after conflictThis article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities but that there are risks of...
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Beyond Ukraine and Gaza: Five consequences of overlooking other conflictsThe years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. The war in Ukraine and the escalating violence...
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