Impact and Implications of the Ebola Crisis
Published by: GSDRC
This rapid literature review looks at the available evidence on the impact of the Ebola crisis on four key areas: political, economic, social, and security.
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Published by: GSDRC
This rapid literature review looks at the available evidence on the impact of the Ebola crisis on four key areas: political, economic, social, and security.
Published by: IDS
Recognising the centrality of violence in the development process, in 2012–14 a group of researchers at IDS engaged in depth with the complex and thorny questions of how ‘new’ forms of violence in the developing world should be understood.
Published by: Oxford University Press
This briefing examines responses to the Ebola outbreak and offers a different set of explanations, rooted in the history of the region and the political economy of global health and development.
Published by: IDS
The overarching purpose of the Addressing and Mitigating Violence (AMV) theme is to generate useful analysis to tackle policy dilemmas relating to ‘newer’ forms of violence and organised crime.
Published by: IDS
The 2011 World Development Report on conflict, security and development highlights the centrality of ‘external stresses’ for generating insecurity and increasing the risk of violence in fragile areas. West African states are particularly vulnerable, with serious concerns around cross-border violence and illicit drug-trafficking.
Published by: GSDRC
This rapid review collates a large amount of literature published in 2013 and 2014 (up to April 2014) on the topic of gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It is not a systematic or exhaustive review, but does provide a comprehensive overview of the literature available
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.
Published by: IDS
Debates over violence, security, humanitarian and development imperatives have long been polarised.
Published by: IDS
A detailed analysis of Sierra Leone's socioeconomic trends and political institutions show a disturbing picture of anger, frustration and violence.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This research explores relatively successful reforms of the local property tax system in the four largest city councils in Sierra Leone. Deriving lessons from differing outcomes across the four councils, it highlights three key messages about the determinants of successful reform.