Addressing and Mitigating Violence
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Where is the Money? Donor Funding for Conflict and Violence Prevention in Eastern Africa
(IDS, 2017-01)In 2014, Kenya and Uganda were two of the top three recipients of official development assistance in Africa. The funding focused on education, health care, infrastructure, entrepreneurship development, HIV/AIDS treatment, ... -
Violence and Violence Reduction Efforts in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Ivory Coast: Insights and Lessons towards Achieving SDG 16
(IDS, 2016-11)This report develops evidence-based insights into contextual dimensions of violence and practices on reducing violence, from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of governance. In presenting our analytic narrative ... -
The Violent Politics of Informal Work, and How Young People Navigate Them: A Conceptual Framework
(IDS, 2016-06)This report explores the linkages between young people’s economic engagement and their social and political engagement in contexts of violence in Africa. The enquiry started from the assumption that, in the everyday lives ... -
Reducing Violence in a Time of Global Uncertainty: Insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence Programme
(IDS, 2016-06)This Evidence Report details key insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, which involved detailed political analysis of dynamics of violence as well as efforts to ... -
Reducing Violence in a Time of Global Uncertainty
(IDS, 2016-06)The new Sustainable Development Goal to reduce armed violence is a welcome commitment but the prescriptive nature of its approach is problematic – there is ‘no one size fits all’. Rather, focus needs to be on how violence ... -
Beyond Borders: The End of the Mano River War(s)?
(IDS, 2016-04)The Mano River sub-region, which includes Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire, has experienced decades of violent upheavals and political instability. This notably includes civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone ... -
Addressing and Mitigating Violence: Uptake Strategy, Year Four Update
(IDS, 2016-04)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. Such a focus is becoming ... -
Black Sands, Green Plans and Conflict: Structural Adjustment, Sectoral Reforms and the Mining–Conservation–Conflict Nexus in Southern Madagascar
(IDS, 2016-03)This report is a policy analysis of international investments in Madagascar’s natural resources at the thematic intersection of extractive development, land reform, environmental preservation and conflict. After introducing ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy: Outputs from the Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, May 2013 – October 2015
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-10)Knowledge and evidence are important elements of all policy processes. While the availability of more or higher quality evidence does not guarantee better policy processes, it is difficult to imagine how development policy ... -
Whose Security? Building Inclusive and Secure Societies in an Unequal and Insecure World
(IDS, 2015-09)Development researchers, governance specialists, security and international relations analysts are cartographers of the modern world. Their job is to untangle the tangled, yet in doing so they all too often make flat all ... -
Inequality: Trends, Harms and New Agendas
(IDS, 2015-09)The notion that inequality matters has spread and gained currency over the last years. After decades of neglect, inequality is finally ‘in from the cold’ (Atkinson 1997), and firmly at the centre of research and policy ... -
Green Development, Natural Resource Financialization and Emerging Conflict in Southern Africa with Examples from Implementation Contexts in Madagascar, Tanzania and South Africa
(IDS, 2015-09)In recent years, widespread uncertainty around global economic and environmental futures has contributed to growing advocacy for a global ‘greening’ of the economy involving the coordinated establishment of pro-environment ... -
Towards Conflict-sensitive Regional Integration in East Africa
(IDS, 2015-09)Regional integration and development in East Africa have been portrayed as inextricably linked. Integration involving investment in trade and transport corridors to move goods, services and people between coast and ... -
High-Level Roundtable on Improving Lives and Reducing Violence through the Provision of Services
(IDS, 2015-08)This high-level roundtable explored the complex links between poverty, violence, insecurity and the provision of services, drawing on four case studies from within Nairobi, Kathmandu, Mumbai and India as a whole. Access ... -
Understanding Relationships between the Green Economy, Resource Financialization and Conflict
(IDS, 2015-07)A key aspect of the United Nations’ sustainable development approach centres on creating markets for financialized ‘natural capital’ products, particularly in resource-rich, lower-income countries. The appeal of this ... -
Can Targeted Transition Services for Young Offenders Foster Pro-Social Attitudes and Behaviours in Urban Settings? Evidence from the Evaluation of the Kherwadi Social Welfare Association’s Yuva Parivartan Programme
(IDS, 2015-05)In Maharashtra, state-sponsored programmes that support school dropouts and young offenders in finding employment and integrating into society are severely limited by a lack of resources and capacity. While several ... -
Tangled Ties: Al-Shabaab and Political Volatility in Kenya
(IDS, 2015-04)In recent years, a spate of attacks has destabilised a swathe of Kenya’s peripheral counties as well as bringing terror to its capital, Nairobi. As violent insecurity spreads, it has fomented fear and stoked ethnic and ... -
Does War Empower Women? Evidence from Timor Leste
(IDS, 2015-03)Conflicts may change the material conditions and the incentives individuals face through death, displacement and other consequences of violence. Being a victim of a war can also profoundly change individual beliefs, values ... -
Do Government Transfers Reduce Conflict?
(IDS, 2015-02)How can we mitigate civil unrest before it results in the breakdown of social order? Not all forms of civil unrest escalate into violence, but why do some deteriorate and others do not? Social conflicts have been solved ... -
Sustainable Development Goals Must Consider Security, Justice and Inequality to Achieve Social Justice
(IDS, 2015-02)Security and social justice have a crucial role to play in the newly proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals, which aim to establish a safe, sustainable and just society for all, require a truly ...
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