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1 October 2019
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Learning on the Streets. Youth and vending in urban Zimbabwe
IDS Research fellow Marjoke Oosterom has won an ESRC New Investigators grant to do research on youth and political socialization in the...
News
11 March 2019
IDS launches major international project on trust, governance and the future of democracy
A major new IDS research project on trust and global governance has been launched with £2.3m of funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Brief
20 December 2018
Assessing the Strength of Different Violence Monitoring Systems in Crises
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.
Working Paper
20 December 2018
Comparing ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Media for Violence Monitoring and Crisis Response in Kenya
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.
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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.
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‘Seeing’ Conflict at the Margins in Kenya and Madagascar
In a context of unprecedented investment in natural resource developments, this project bridges the social sciences, the humanities and community-based participatory research to ask how different ‘communities’ of actors ‘see’ and experience resource conflicts in Kenya and Madagascar. We use social science alongside a variety of participatory multimedia methods to open up conflict research to more diverse framings and voices, which can offer new insights on the drivers of resource conflict and pathways to peace.
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Market-Based Mangrove Afforestation and Reforestation in Kenya and India
This study aims to understand and compare processes and relationships associated with the ‘marketization of nature’ – how nature-based commodities and markets for trading them are brought into being – in the context of mangrove afforestation, reforestation and restoration projects in Kenya and India.
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Governing the Land-Water-Environment Nexus in Southern Africa
This project studies the different ways in which the 'nexus' of land, water and environment are governed in southern Africa. It investigates different governance styles (including technocratic, market-led, state-led and citizen-led approaches), and asks what difference they make to the mechanisms and actors that are involved.
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China and Brazil in African Agriculture
The question of how Brazil, China and other 'rising powers' may change African agricultural development is critical and timely.