Brief
24 February 2015
Ebola and Extractive Industry
Published by: IDS
The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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Brief
23 February 2015
Sustainable Development Goals Must Consider Security, Justice and Inequality to Achieve Social Justice
Published by: IDS
Security and social justice have a crucial role to play in the newly proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Journal Article
1 July 2014
Global Environmental Justice and the Right to Water: The Case of Peri-Urban Cochabamba and Delhi
Published by: Elsevier
This article applies the global environmental justice (GEJ) approach to the problem of universal access to safe and potable water. Nowhere is the challenge more pressing than in peri-urban spaces where the lack of formal water provision and increasing environmental pollution lead to significant challenges for human wellbeing.
Report
18 June 2014
Cross-border Violence as an External Stress: Policy Responses to Cross-border Dynamics on the Border between Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia
Published by: IDS
One of the key issues identified in the new policy literature on external stress is the incidence of cross-border violence and the current lack of efficient and permanent mechanisms supported by international organisations, governments and civil society to deal with the violence.
Past Event
Conflict, Violence and Development Seminar Series
Large-Scale Investments, Rising Powers, and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa
The aim of this workshop is to understand the governance of large investments with respect to local peacebuilding and strengthening security for local communities.
Journal Article
25 April 2014
Introduction: ‘Some for All Rather than More for Some’? Contested Pathways and Politics since the 1990 New Delhi Statement
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This introduction reviews the experience of the water and sanitation sector since the 1990 New Delhi Statement – Some for All Rather...
Brief
25 April 2014
Beyond the New Deal: Global Collaboration and Peacebuilding with BRICS Countries
Published by: IDS
Development in fragile and conflict-affected contexts is both complex and contested. The New Deal for Engagement with Fragile States, endorsed by 35 countries and six organisations, is the current focus of efforts to harmonise aid approaches.
Project
Large-scale resource development at the rural margins: assessing implications for governance, conflict and peacebuilding in Ivory Coast and Kenya
Over three years, this project examined how conflict, local governance and peace-building arrangements in the rural margins of Kenya and Ivory Coast are affected by new, large-scale investments in resource exploitation.
Journal Article
11 March 2014
New Perspectives from PhD Field Research
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin offers a platform for IDS PhD researchers to reflect on their fieldwork experiences, including research-related challenges, as well as cultural and personal encounters along the way.
Brief
13 January 2014
Undercurrents of Violence: Why Sierra Leone’s Political Settlement is not Working
Published by: IDS
Debates over violence, security, humanitarian and development imperatives have long been polarised.