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dc.contributor.authorSchultze-Kraft, M
dc.contributor.authorHinkle, S
dc.coverage.spatialEgypten_GB
dc.coverage.spatialKenyaen_GB
dc.coverage.spatialNigeriaen_GB
dc.coverage.spatialSierra Leoneen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-05T09:22:50Z
dc.date.available2014-12-05T09:22:50Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.identifier.citationSchultze-Kraft, M. and Hinkle, S. (2014) Toward Effective Violence Mitigation: Transforming Political Settlements, IDS Evidence Report 101, Brighton: IDSen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/5367
dc.description.abstractRecognising 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 Studies (IDS) engaged in depth with the complex and thorny questions of how ‘new’ forms of violence in the developing world – as opposed to ‘traditional’ civil or intra-state war – should be understood; and through which policies they could best be prevented and/or mitigated. The result of this endeavour is a series of evidence-based reports that were produced in collaboration with Southern partners in a sample of four violence-affected countries in Africa: Nigeria (Niger Delta), Sierra Leone, Egypt and Kenya (Marsabit County). The evidence from the four case studies suggests that – contrary to the early post-Cold War accounts of ‘barbarism’ and ‘senseless bloodshed’ – the violence we observe in many countries and locales today is about something. Yet, the analyses also show that the triggers, manifestations and effects of this violence – characterised as diffuse, recursive and globalised – cannot be captured by using the analytical tools developed to explain armed conflict within states. Strictly speaking, it would be misguided to label the violence in the Niger Delta, Marsabit County, Egypt and Sierra Leone as ‘civil war’, ‘internal armed conflict’ or ‘new war’. Instead, it is more accurate to speak of highly heterogeneous situations of violence or ‘fields of social violence’. At the same time, it is crucial not to dissociate these situations of violence from political processes by, for instance, reducing them to manifestations of criminality, such as homicide and illicit drug trafficking, or reflections of social problems like rampant youth unemployment, the use of prohibited psychoactive substances, and gang culture.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipUK Department for International Developmenten_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Evidence Report;101
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren_GB
dc.subjectSecurity and Conflicten_GB
dc.titleToward Effective Violence Mitigation: Transforming Political Settlementsen_GB
dc.typeIDS Evidence Reporten_GB
dc.rights.holderIDSen_GB
dc.identifier.agOT/11009/2/1/2/44


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