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1 April 2020
Published by: Elsevier
Protected areas located in areas of violent conflict are often conceived as spaces where the state has lost its control and parks are...
As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC,...
30 January 2020
Published by: London School of Economics
With international collaboration common to international research, race frequently structures the professional hierarchies of projects....
In Africa, remote borderland regions are commonly the site of protracted humanitarian crises. These places are formidable “islands of...
14 October 2019
20 December 2018
Published by: IDS
Violence monitoring systems can play a vital role in tracking, managing, and responding to violence. Such systems typically rely on one or a combination of strategies for data collection, including old and new media monitoring. In spite of the widespread use of violence monitoring systems there is limited information on their comparative opportunities and limitations. Drawing on research conducted during the 2017 Kenya elections, this briefing explains why policymakers and practitioners should continue to invest in combined approaches to violence monitoring that make use of both old and new media to play to their relative strengths while remaining aware of limitations and biases in both.
20 December 2018
Published by: IDS
Social media and digital technologies are changing the way information about political violence is collected, disseminated, analysed and understood. Effective early warning and crisis response increasingly depends on the availability of timely, reliable reports of violence, and a growing body of research on violence relies on the availability of reliable violent event data to understand patterns, dynamics and trajectories of violence. While biases in traditional media – newspapers and print media – have been analysed and documented in the literature, there is relatively little information about biases in relation to new and emerging sources of data.
The Governance research cluster works across a number of thematic areas that are focused on ensuring citizens are represented and...
1 August 2018
5 April 2018
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Recent literature has shown that the study of armed conflict can be highly informative to understand processes of state-building. One of the fundamental choices that states or other military actors face when occupying new territories and populations is whether to administer them by developing novel administrations (direct rule), or by devolving rule to pre-existing local authorities (indirect rule).