Impact Initiative - Security: Recent submissions
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Security on the Move - Research Brief 3. Displacement and Camp Urbanisation in Mogadishu
(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 settled ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief No.4. Long-term Legacies of Displacement and Urban Growth in Hargeisa
(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 ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief No.1. Displacement, Insecurity and Camp Management in Baidoa
(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 settled ... -
Mise en scène familiale, usages du savoir et campagnes politiques : Djiguiba Camara (Guinée)
(Cahiers d’Études africaines, 2019)Cet article retrace le parcours de Djiguiba Camara, intermédiaire colonial de Haute Guinée et auteur d’un tapuscrit de 110 pages intitulé « Histoire locale » sur l’histoire de son village natal de Damaro et sur Samori ... -
Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-14)his article examines the effects of one year of exposure to “Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom” (LRHC) on the reading and math skills of second- to fourth-grade children in the low-income and conflict-affected ... -
Promoting Children's Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02)Improving children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries is critically important for breaking the intergenerational transmission of violence and poverty. Yet there is currently a stunning lack of rigorous ... -
The Impact of Development on Violent Nature
(OMICS International, 2012)It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards. Evidence includes through data available from the annual Human Development Reports of the ... -
Cyclone disaster vulnerability and response experiences in coastal Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2010)For generations, cyclones and tidal surges have frequently devastated lives and property in coastal and island Bangladesh. This study explores vulnerability to cyclone hazards using firsthand coping recollections from prior ... -
Poverty and Conflict
(University of Birmingham, 10/2016)Poverty and conflict are widely understood to be closely interconnected; with poverty making countries more prone to civil war, and armed conflict weakening governance and economic performance, thus increasing the risk of ... -
Documenting Torture and Ill-Treatment Amongst the Poor
(ESRC-DFIDDignity Danish Institute Against TortureUniversity of EdinburghDocumentation Project, 2016)This briefing highlights research that identifies potential deficiencies in the reporting of instances of torture and ill-treatment amongst the poorest members of society, and suggests actions that might be progressed to ... -
Poverty Alleviation in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda Workshop Findings: Working Paper I
(ESRC-DFIDUniversity of NottinghamUniversity of the Philippines, 2016)The following observations are drawn from the opening workshop of the ESRC/DFID funded project (Ref: ES/M008932/1), ‘Poverty Alleviation in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda’. The workshop was held on 30 September 2015 at Balay ... -
Gathering 'Good' Qualitative Data in Local Communities Post Typhoon Yolanda: Power, Conversation and Negotiated Memory (Working Paper IV)
(ESRC-DFIDUniversity of NottinghamUniversity of the Philippines, 2017)This working paper is the fourth in a series run by the ESRC/DFID funded project ‘Poverty Alleviation in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda’. This project monitors the effectiveness of the Typhoon Yolanda relief efforts in the ... -
Social pathways for Ebola Virus Disease in rural Sierra Leone, and some implications for containment
(Public Library of Science, 2015)The current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Upper West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Molecular evidence suggests spread has been almost exclusively through human-to-human contact. Social factors are thus clearly ... -
Local Institutions and Armed Group Presence in Colombia
(2014)This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification ... -
Ethical consumption in Chile and Brazil
(2012)Ariztia presented the first findings of an ongoing multi-national research project ‘Sustainable Choices’. Chile and Brazil are former developing countries which now have growing ethical consumption movements. Ethical ... -
Religious fragmentation, social identity and cooperation: Evidence from a artefactual field experiment in India
(2015)We study the role of village-level religious fragmentation on intra- and inter-group cooperation in India. We report on data on two-player Prisoners Dilemma and Stag Hunt experiments played by 516 Hindu and Muslim ...