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Matasa Fellows Network
An exciting initiative to support young African scholars engage their research with policy on youth employment in Africa.
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Journal Article
8 March 2016
The Effects of Protracted Conflict and Displacement on Citizen Engagement in Northern Uganda
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
This demonstrates the need for a clear understanding of the continued fragility of citizenship after violent conflict
Working Paper
9 February 2016
Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency: A Review of the Literature
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This Working Paper comprises a literature review that was carried out to inform the formulation of a research project on power, violence, citizenship and agency, which addresses how social actors react to complex, violence-prone contexts.
Report
16 April 2015
Tangled Ties: Al-Shabaab and Political Volatility in Kenya
Published by: IDS
In recent years, a spate of attacks has destabilised a swathe of Kenya’s peripheral counties as well as bringing terror to its capital, Nairobi. As violent insecurity spreads, it has fomented fear and stoked ethnic and regional divisions, precipitating security crackdowns and roiling the country’s infamously tumultuous politics.
Report
4 December 2014
Being a Born-free. Violence, Youth and Agency in Zimbabwe
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This research report presents the findings of case study research with youth in six locations in Zimbabwe, carried out within the Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency (PVCA) programme.
Report
3 June 2014
Roots and Routes of Political Violence in Kenya’s Civil and Political Society: A Case Study of Marsabit County
Published by: IDS
Struggles to influence the balance of power and the distribution of economic resources in Kenya have a long history of violence: national and local, actual and threatened, physical and psychological.
Brief
3 June 2014
Addressing Sexual Violence in and beyond the ‘Warzone’
Published by: IDS
Conflict-related sexual violence remains pervasive across the globe, and its widespread use has been reported in Rwanda, Liberia, Northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
Report
30 May 2014
It May Approach as Quickly as a Bushfire’: Gendered Violence and Insecurity in South Sudan
Published by: IDS
This research report presents the findings of case study research in Eastern Equatoria State in South Sudan, carried out within the Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency (PVCA) programme.
Brief
14 May 2014
The Underside of Political Settlements: Violence in Egypt and Kenya
Published by: IDS
Understanding political settlements is important for addressing and mitigating violence. This policy briefing is based on case studies from Egypt and Kenya which confirm that political settlements that only focus on formal actors and spaces at the national level are crucially flawed.
Project
Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency
The Power, Violence, Citizenship and Agency (PVCA) project is an action research project designed by researchers at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and carried out with a number of institutional partners.