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1 December 2011
Terrorist attacks in the Western world have raised much discussion and concern about appropriate anti-terrorism measures, especially those that could affect civil liberties such as (electronic) surveillance and the rights of accused and suspicious people.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Richard Caplan, Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford, discussed exit strategies and lessons learned from the Balkans to Afghanistan.
In Kazakhstan UNICEF are embarking on new child wellbeing research to better understand the vulnerabilities that children experience in this country.
1 December 2010
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
1 December 2010
1 June 2010
This is the first longitudinal analysis on a pan-European level, investigating whether differences in terrorism risk are reflected on terrorism perception, motivated by the Bayesian framework
1 June 2010
This is the first longitudinal analysis on a pan-European level, investigating whether differences in terrorism risk are reflected on terrorism perception, motivated by the Bayesian framework
1 January 2009
Insecurities are a challenge to many societies, especially if they involve risks of creating major losses in human lives, property and welfare. Local or national governments are at least partly responsible for the wellbeing of its inhabitants and are therefore supposed to deal with these insecurities.
The Triple-S Initiative aims to catalyse systemic change in rural water policies and practices, to move from an infrastructure-based approach towards service delivery approaches. IDS is providing ongoing external learning and methodology support to the initiative.
This project is looking at tax collection, welfare distribution and environmental regulation to find out where transitional states should channel their limited resources in order to implement their policies.