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26 May 2016
Published by: IDS
Perhaps more than any other region or any other period of post-Cold War history, the Middle East since the Arab Spring constitutes a significant challenge to established ideas about development and its relationship with conflict.
20 May 2016
In this introductory article we identify eight myths of conflict and development related to the Middle East region. Some of these myths,...
20 May 2016
As the civil war in Syria continues, in the territory of Rojava – in Kurdish, ‘the West’ – the northern Syrian Kurdish political...
Patricia Justino will (i) co-lead research and authorship for a background paper (and related publications) on household risk, behaviour, and policy options in the Afghanistan context of conflict and, (ii) for a social safety net impact evaluation, contribute to instrument design, analysis, and interpretation of results, especially with respect to conflict-related issues.
This project, funded through IIED's Urban Humanitarian Crises accountable grant, seeks to explore the relationships between occupation violence and sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) in the Gaza strip within the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
14 April 2016
14 April 2016
15 February 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face a number of challenges, including ongoing civil unrest with associated displacement of people and disruption of services, stagnant economic growth and high unemployment, food insecurity and rising malnutrition, exacerbated by import dependence and natural disasters.
2 February 2016
Digital jobs are seen as a key opportunity for the growing population of young people in Africa but a new Rapid Response Briefing cautions against viewing digital jobs as a silver bullet.
1 February 2016
Published by: Sage
The article argues that a number of factors if analysed individually suggest there is no difference in the dynamics of sexual violence in protest and non-protest spaces, however suggest a pattern that is politically driven.