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31 December 2015
Published by: IDS
This report focuses on Lebanon’s social protection and stabilisation plans, which are currently facing a critical test. At present, more than one in every four people in Lebanon is a refugee, and the number of people in-country has risen by 30% in just four years.
28 October 2015
Published by: IDS
In many developing countries, sexual rights are commonly depicted as trivial concerns pertaining to wealthy citizens of a ‘developed’ Western world. The ‘developing’ world is often thought to have more pressing problems to deal with, such as poverty, violence and corruption.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Trade and trade policy can have serious implications for the incentives of individuals and governments to fight in fragile countries. This seminar will discuss some of the new research by the World Bank on how changes in imports and exports affect the risk and intensity of conflict.
1 January 2015
Social justice that inspired millions to take to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya
The Cairo Regional Bureau of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex conducted a scoping study of social protection programmes in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
This seminar aims to uncover one of the consequences of returning home after conflict induced displacement by taking a closer look at its impact on several dimensions of social capital.
7 June 2013
Published by: IDS
Policy Brief 2 emerging from the ESRC- DfID funded project "Agency and Governance in the Context of Civil Conflict"