Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Addressing and Mitigating Violence: Recent submissions
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Addressing and Mitigating Violence: Uptake Strategy, Year Three Update
(IDS, 2015-02)The overarching purpose of the Addressing and Mitigating Violence (AMV) theme is to generate useful analysis to tackle policy dilemmas relating to ‘newer’ forms of violence and organised crime. Across the contexts where ... -
Civil Unrest and Government Transfers in India
(IDS, 2015-02)This paper investigates empirically the role of government expenditure on social services in mitigating and preventing civil unrest (riots) in India. The empirical analysis makes use of a unique longitudinal dataset compiled ... -
High-Level Roundtable on Political Settlements: Goodenough College, London, 15 October 2014
(IDS, 2015-01)This roundtable was held at Goodenough College, London, on 15 October 2014. Its purpose was to engage high-level policymakers and academics on the relevance of the political settlement lens for the comparative study of ... -
Mitigating 'Non-Conflict' Violence by Creating Peaceful Political Settlements
(IDS, 2014-12)Understanding and addressing ‘non-conflict’ violence is a key challenge for development. Different types of ‘non-conflict’ violence, such as homicide, massacres, armed robbery and gender-based violence, which occur outside ... -
Toward Effective Violence Mitigation: Transforming Political Settlements
(IDS, 2014-12)Recognising the centrality of violence in the development process (though not subscribing to the notion that conflict and violence are development in reverse), in 2012–14 a group of researchers at the Institute of Development ... -
Tackling Urban Violence in Mumbai and Cape Town through Citizen Engagement and Community Action
(IDS, 2014-08)Urban violence is an urgent and growing problem in many cities across the world. It comes in a multitude of forms such as gender-based violence, gangs and drug-related violence, police violence, religious riots, vigilante ... -
Understanding ‘Urban Youth’ and the Challenges they face in Sub-Saharan Africa: Unemployment, Food Insecurity and Violent Crime
(IDS, 2014-06)Much of Africa is urbanising fast and its young population is projected to constitute the largest labour force in the world. While urbanisation can be linked closely with economic development, we also know that it is the ... -
Cross-border Violence as an External Stress: Policy Responses to Cross-border Dynamics on the Border between Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia
(IDS, 2014-06)One of the key issues identified in the new policy literature on external stress is the incidence of cross-border violence and the current lack of efficient and permanent mechanisms supported by international organisations, ... -
Getting Real About an Illicit ‘External Stressor’: Transnational Cocaine Trafficking through West Africa
(IDS, 2014-06)Concerns over West Africa’s increasingly prominent role as transhipment point of South American cocaine en route to Europe are mounting. Gathering pace in the mid-2000s, large-scale drug trafficking has been associated ... -
Key Challenges of Security Provision in Rapidly Urbanising Contexts: Evidence from Kathmandu Valley and Terai Regions of Nepal
(IDS, 2014-05)We know that urban violence not only affects people’s health and wellbeing, it has a devastating impact on the social fabric and economic prospects of entire cities (Moser 2005). It can also set recursive cycles of ... -
The Underside of Political Settlements: Violence in Egypt and Kenya
(IDS, 2014-05)Understanding political settlements is important for addressing and mitigating violence. This policy briefing is based on case studies from Egypt and Kenya which confirm that political settlements that only focus on formal ... -
On a Wing and a Prayer? Challenges for Reducing Armed Violence
(IDS, 2014-05)Most deaths due to violence now occur outside traditional conflict settings. In these contexts, violence is complex and often hard to understand, linked to a variety of conditions, situations and trends which are deeply ... -
Addressing and Mitigating Violence: Uptake Strategy, Year Two Update
(IDS, 2014-05)The overarching purpose of the Addressing and Mitigating Violence (AMV) theme is to generate useful analysis to tackle policy dilemmas relating to ‘newer’ forms of violence and organised crime. Across the contexts where ... -
External Stresses in West Africa: Cross-border Violence and Cocaine Trafficking
(IDS, 2014-05)The 2011 World Development Report on conflict, security and development highlights the centrality of ‘external stresses’ for generating insecurity and increasing the risk of violence in fragile areas. West African states ... -
Agency and Citizenship in a Context of Gender-based Violence
(IDS, 2014-04)This pilot evaluation explores how citizenship and agency among social activists can be fostered in contexts of urban violence at the local level. Many initiatives and approaches to addressing violence, particularly urban ... -
Policing Urban Violence: Lessons from South Asia
(IDS, 2014-03)As densely populated urban centres emerge as economic powerhouses where global GDP is concentrated, they are also increasingly vulnerable to shocks of violence and insecurity. Well-managed urban economies have the potential ... -
Settling After the Revolts? Egypt’s Political Settlements and Violent Transition
(IDS, 2014-03)The uprisings in the Arab region generated much hope among significant proportions of the population that a rupture with the status quo would herald a new era marked by bread, freedom and social justice/human dignity, the ... -
Making the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtra
(Institute of Development Studies (ID), 2013-12)Mumbai and Nairobi have acutely unequal urban development, with respectively 40 per cent and 60 per cent of their urban population living in slums. The most impoverished neighbourhoods are characterised by severe lack ... -
Missing the Point: Violence Reduction and Policy Misadventures in Nairobi's Poor Neighbourhoods
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)Violence and crime are part of everyday life in many of Nairobi’s poor urban neighbourhoods. While wealthier enclaves of the city are heavily guarded by private security firms, violence and protection provided through ... -
Is it the Right Time for the International Community to Exit Sierra Leone?
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2013-11)A glance at key indicators – in terms of growth forecast and stable elections – will project Sierra Leone as a model for a successful post-conflict state. However, a detailed analysis of the country’s socioeconomic trends, ...