Impact Initiative - Security: Recent submissions
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Human Security of Urban Migrant Populations Affected by Length of Residence and Environmental Hazards
(SAGE Publishing, 2020-12)It is widely suggested that migration is a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through migration increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet climate change also creates ... -
The Struggle Against Torture: Challenges, Assumptions and New Directions
(Oxford University Press, 2019)This short essay offers a broad and necessarily incomplete review of the current state of the human rights struggle against torture and ill-treatment. It sketches four widespread assumptions in that struggle: 1) that torture ... -
Filtering Information: Human Rights Documentation in Bangladesh
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Documentation of human rights violations is a difficult and dangerous practice. The capacity of human rights organizations does not match the extent of the problems they encounter and the depth of the issues they illuminate. ... -
Counting Torture: Towards the Translation of Robust, Useful, and Inclusive Human Rights Indicators
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The turn to quantified measures is part of an attempt to produce more objective and comprehensive data on human rights violations. However, the turn to numbers has also been criticised for forcing human rights into the ... -
Monetary Compensation for Survivors of Torture: Some Lessons from Nepal
(Oxford University Press, 2018)The Nepali Compensation Relating to Torture Act (1996) is one of the earliest pieces of specific anti-torture legislation adopted in the global South. Despite a number of important limitations, scores of Nepalis have ... -
Zones of peace and local peace processes in Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This article examines the issue of peace and restraint within ongoing conflicts. While the vast majority of the literature on civil wars in Africa concentrates on drivers of conflict and instances of violence, there are ... -
Devolution, Shifting Centre-periphery Relationships and Conflict in Northern Kenya
(Elsevier, 2018)This article examines changing patterns of governance characterised by devolution as well as other developments associated with shifting centre-periphery relationships and their influences on conflict in northern Kenya. ... -
Reimagining Police Engagement? Kenya National Police Service on Social Media
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Official police use of social media for public engagement is a relatively new phenomenon on the African continent and the Kenya National Police Service (NPS) is at the forefront of this trend. Drawing on a combination of ... -
Social media warfare and Kenya's conflict with Al Shabaab in Somalia: A right to know?
(Oxford University Press, 2019)This article explores Kenyan citizens’ right to know details about sensitive security-related information in the context of a new era of social media warfare. It considers the public communications response to Al Shabaab’s ... -
Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
(Zed, 2019)Demonstrates how social media is transforming political engagement in Africa using unique case studies from across the region. -
Social Network Research in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2019)Social network approaches have much to offer for the study of African politics. This research note explores the tensions and benefits of using social networks as metaphor or as method, and highlights the types of questions ... -
Gender, Social Networks, and Conflict
(University of Kent, 2019)War is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting families and local communities. This essay synthesizes existing feminist research ... -
Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime: An Insight from Nigeria
(Springer, 2020)Research demonstrates that crime is concentrated. This finding is so consistent that David Weisburd refers to this as the “law of crime concentration at place”. However, most research on crime concentration has been conducted ... -
Code/Space
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Code has become ubiquitous, from shopping transactions to travel, and the spaces it creates. When Kitchin and Dodge were first formalizing their thoughts on code space and its associated concepts, the hype of “big data” ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Various Street-level Characteristics on the Burden of Urban Burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Evidence suggests that crimes committed in urban environments are geographically concentrated across a range of scales, and that the variation in rates of crime within an urban space is significantly dependent on the ... -
Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2020)Islands, long portrayed in the Western imaginary as remote, static, and bounded entities, have increasingly come to be viewed as places constantly in the making: as connected sites formed by complex and shifting relations ... -
Shifting Sands: The Rhythms and Temporalities of Island Sandscapes
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)This article explores the different timescales and temporalities of the movement of sand. In recent years, growing scholarly attention has focused on the qualities of sand and the increasing demands for its use worldwide. ... -
Everyday Life and Environmental Change
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)This paper explores how daily changes in the physical environment intersect and connect with people's everyday lives, routines and practices in the Maldives. Day‐to‐day life is often regarded as mundane and ordinary, and ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief No.2. Creating Satellite Towns: Displacement and Resettlement in Bosaaso
(Security on the Move, 2019)This research brief summarises key findings from the 2017-2019 Security on the Move research project. Funded by DFID and ESRC, Security on the Move focused on the perspectives and experiences of displaced people who have ... -
War and City-making in Somalia: Property, Power and Disposable Lives
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Rapid urbanisation in Somalia, as in many other war-torn countries, is driven by in-migration of displaced people who are often amassed in camps. Although such camps become institutionalised sites of exclusion where ‘bare ...
