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Security and Conflict

Hand holding bullets, Robin Hammond/ Panos Insecurity and violent conflict are major causes of poverty, negatively impacting people’s livelihoods and welfare. Increasingly, development agencies work in conflict-prone environments, but their interventions all too often fail to contribute to preventing conflict, building peace or reducing poverty.

IDS work on security and conflict aims to provide a nuanced and realistic understanding of the relationship between security, conflict and development. IDS researchers seek to contribute to academic debate and to engage with policymakers, advocacy organisations and donors.

IDS work on security and conflict covers multiple areas:

The Conflict Violence and Development research cluster in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team analyses how people live and interact in contexts of conflict and violence, and which institutions best support them. The cluster uses research findings to develop policies and practices that strengthen people’s efforts to secure their own lives and livelihoods.

The Governance Team leads research on conflict management, security and peace-building at multiple scales, from the local to the transnational. This work contributes to more effective policies for managing conflict and crime, and to improving the functioning of institutions responsible for security and conflict management.

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10 May 12 New Flagship Programmes

IDS has launched six multi-year programmes to deliver new policy solutions to key development challenges to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people.

12 Mar 12 Development frontiers in an insecure world: International security and implications for development

IDS convenes high level consultation to discuss the growing convergence of security and development priorities and the implications for policy.

20 Dec 11 What were the top moments in development research from 2011?

Watch IDS researchers share their key moments from 2011 and describe how they think these events and issues will impact on the development research community.

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Latest Publications on Security and Conflict »

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Vincent, J. B. M. (2012) 'A Village-up View of Sierra Leone’s Civil War and Reconstruction Multilayered and Networked Governance - Research Summary', IDS Research Summary of IDS Research Report 75, Brighton: IDS
Vincent, J. B. M. (2012) 'A Village-Up View of Sierra Leone’s Civil War and Reconstruction: Multilayered and Networked Governance', IDS Research Report 75, Brighton: IDS
Koehler, G. Gasper, D. Jolly, R. and Simane, M. (2012) 'Human Security and the Next Generation of Comprehensive Human Development Goals' , Brighton: IDS
Justino, P. (2012) 'War and Poverty', IDS Working Paper 391, Brighton: IDS
Ferdinand Mugumo Mushi (2012) 'Insecurity and Local Governance in Congo’s South Kivu', IDS Research Report 74, Brighton: IDS

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Security and Conflict projects at IDS

Addressing and Mitigating Violence - This programme will generate practical policy options for states and citizens so they can better address and mitigate violence in both rural and urban settings. (Ongoing)

Agency and Governance in Contexts of Civil Conflict - analysing how the relationship between populations living in contexts of violence and armed non-state actors controlling or contesting those areas results in forms of local governance and order, and how this affects people's livelihoods. (Ongoing)

Changing Livelihoods in Darfur Since 2005 - Assessing current livelihood strategies and options available to vulnerable communities living in Darfur. (Ongoing)

Global Uncertainties: Security in an Africa of Networked, Multi-Level Governance - The programme of research centres on how the various institutions responsible for the production of security and the management of conflict in Sub-Saharan African societies do, could and should evolve in response to the presence of violent conflict. (Ongoing)

Households in Conflict Network - undertaking collaborative research into the causes and effects of violent conflict at the household level. (Ongoing)

Influencing Policies to Support the Empowerment of Women and Girls - The programme will look at how you can build an enabling environment for gender empowerment. It will examine the politics behind care, asking why policies that support unpaid care become institutionalised in some contexts and not others. (Ongoing)

MICROCON - a five-year research programme, taking an innovative micro level, multidisciplinary approach to studying the conflict cycle. (Ongoing)

Quantifying the Impact of Women’s Participation in Peace Building - (Ongoing)

Tomorrow Today: Development Frontiers in an Insecure World: International Security and the Implications for Development - (Ongoing)

Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) - training a young generation of professionals and researchers in tackling the challenges associated with mass violent conflict in developing countries. (Ongoing)

Women in Local Peacebuilding research - documenting the role of women in local peacebuilding, conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Ongoing)