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Conflict and Security

Insecurity and violent conflict are major causes of poverty that negatively impact on people’s livelihoods and welfare. Development agencies are increasingly working in conflict-prone environments, but their interventions all too often fail to contribute to preventing conflict, building peace or reducing poverty. IDS’ work on conflict and security aims to provide a nuanced and realistic understanding of the relationship between security, conflict and development.

Conflict

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.

The Participation Power and Social Change team has a pedigree of pioneering work on expanding citizen action in violent contexts.

In addition IDS also hosts the Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme which is funded by the UK Department for International Development. This flagship programme will generate practical policy options for states and citizens so they can better address and mitigate violence in both rural and urban settings.

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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. More details

Aid that Works: Successful Development Initiatives in Fragile States

This project sought to understand how eight development initiatives achieved success in the extremely difficult conditions found in ‘fragile states', or what the World Bank calls ‘low income countries under stress (LICUS)' More details

Changing Livelihoods in Darfur Since 2005

Assessing current livelihood strategies and options available to vulnerable communities living in Darfur. More details

Community Cooperation in Post-Conflict Bosnia

This project will investigate what determines the level of community cooperation in the post-conflict period. More details

Food Riots and Food Rights

The objective of this research is to improve the prospects for accountability for food security at a time of volatility. This will be achieved through an exploration of the proposition that recent popular mobilisation around food has activated public accountability for hunger. More details

Global Consortium on Security Transformation

The Consortium was establishedin 2007 to share research findings and policy lessons amongst regional networks, to promote cross-regional research (South-South as well as South-North), to foster evidence-based policy dialogue and to reach out to a broad range of policy constituencies not normally considered in security analysis and policy-making. More details

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. More details

Households in Conflict Network

Undertaking collaborative research into the causes and effects of violent conflict at the household level. More details

How do Fragile States Achieve Turnaround?

This project sought to understand the factors that contribute to turnaround in fragile states. More details

Improving security for the poor in Nairobi through the provision of services and economic opportunities

This case study aims to critically assess existing evidence on aid, state and community efforts to strengthen access to work, economic opportunities and basic services to improve security in poor areas of Nairobi. More details

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A New Deal? Development and Security in a Changing World

 (2013)
Allouche, J. and Lind, J.

A New Deal? Development and Security in a Changing World

 IDS Research Summary (2013)
Allouche, J. and Lind, J.

The Dynamics of Restraint in Côte d'Ivoire

 In 'Piecing it Together: Post-Conflict Security in an Africa of Networked, Multilevel Governance' (2013)
Leonard, D.

Piecing it Together: Post-Conflict Security in an Africa of Networked, Multilevel Governance

 IDS Bulletin 44.1 (2013)
Leonard, D.

Research and Policy Implications from a Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence and Development

HiCN Working Paper 139 (2013)
Justino, P.

Remittances and Labour Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

 IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1.8 (2012)
Justino, P. and Shemyakina, O.N.

Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States

 Violent Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation.Chapter 13 (2012)
Brown, G. and Langer, A.

Shared Societies and Armed Conflict: Costs, Inequality and the Benefits of Peace

 IDS Working Paper 410 (2012)
Justino, P.

Social Capital and Conflict

 HiCN Working Paper 134 (2012)
Aghajanian, A.

Security Management in Northern Mali: Criminal Networks and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms

 IDS Research Report 77 (2012)
Sidibé, K.

Hybrid Security Orders in Sub-Saharan Africa

 IDS Bulletin 43.4 (2012)
Bagayoko, N. assisted by M'Cormack, F.I.

The Effect of Civil Conflicts on Women’s Labour Force Participation: A Causal Mechanism Approach

Job Market Paper (2012)
Gallegos, J.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)Appropriation of Finite Water Resources

 Water Alternatives 5.2 (2012)
Mehta, L., Vedwisch, G.J.A. and Franco, J.

A Village-up View of Sierra Leone’s Civil War and Reconstruction Multilayered and Networked Governance - Research Summary

 In 'A Village-Up View of Sierra Leone’s Civil War and Reconstruction: Multilayered and Networked Governance' (2012)
Vincent, J.B.M.

A Village-Up View of Sierra Leone’s Civil War and Reconstruction: Multilayered and Networked Governance

 IDS Research Report 75 (2012)
Vincent, J.B.M.

Human Security and the Next Generation of Comprehensive Human Development Goals

 (2012)
Koehler, G., Gasper, D., Jolly, R. and Simane, M.

War and Poverty

 IDS Working Paper 391 (2012)
Justino, P.

Insecurity and Local Governance in Congo’s South Kivu (Research Summary)

 In 'Insecurity and Local Governance in Congo’s South Kivu' (2012)
Ferdinand Mugumo Mushi

Insecurity and Local Governance in Congo’s South Kivu

 IDS Research Report 74 (2012)
Ferdinand Mugumo Mushi

Mapping Police Services in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Institutional Interactions at Central, Provincial and Local Levels

 IDS Research Report 71 (2012)
Nlandu, T.M.
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