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BRiCE Project: Building Resilience in Crisis through Education
The Institute of Development Studies is leading two research projects on education in contexts of violent conflict, BRiCE and REALISE....
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Scaling-Up Early Child Development Interventions in Rwanda
This project aims to establish a long-term partnership between the IDS, Save the Children UK (SCUK) and Save the Children International Rwanda (SCI-R) to analyse, evaluate and scale-up (in partnership with the Government of Rwanda) a unique holistic programme (First Steps) that supports families of children aged 0-3 in the district of Ngororero in Rwanda.
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REALISE Project: Understanding Marginalisation from Education in Civil War
The Institute of Development Studies is leading two research projects on education in contexts of violent conflict, REALISE and BRICE....
Working Paper
1 August 2017
Assessing the Role of Social Media and Digital Technology in Violence Reporting
Published by: IDS
The use of social media and digital technologies has radically changed the way that information about violence is captured, reported, analysed and acted upon. People’s use of social media played a significant role in the Egyptian revolution, post-election violence in Kenya, and drug-cartel violence in Mexico. Social media can be used to provide humanitarian agencies, policymakers and academics seeking to understand and respond to violent crises with data unavailable from other sources.
Opinion
4 April 2017
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New and Emerging Forms of Violence Data for Crisis Response: A Comparative Analysis in Kenya
The project will produce a robust evidence base on the opportunities and limitations of social media data on violence reporting to inform UK emergency and crisis response, in the context of violence monitoring in Kenya.
Past Event
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
How to Measure the Causes of Participation in Armed Groups? New Evidence on an Old Question
Dr Gauthier Marchais will be discussing his latest research at the second "Conversations about Conflict and Violence" being held this term. He presents the results of a recent survey of participation in armed groups in Eastern DRC.