China's engagement in Africa is generally portrayed simply as African countries being
exploited for their mineral wealth by a wealthy political and economic superpower. Is this …

Food security has attracted widespread attention in recent years. Yet, despite preliminary
evidence connecting food insecurity to political violence, we lack a systematic …

This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence
and conflict. The causes of violence and conflict are often left untheorized, or they are …

This book examines the dynamics of terrorist financing, including a discussion about the
importance of money from both the terrorist and the counter-terrorist perspective. Targeting …

Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in
Africa. From state collapse and anarchy in Somalia to protracted wars and rampant …

This paper analyses future trends for intrastate conflict in Africa up to 2050 using the
International Futures (IFs) model. After reviewing the main post-Cold War patterns of conflict …

Introduction “… at what point does the proliferation of 'hunches' add confusion or avoid
critical issues in the field? Does yet another study that finds some statistically significant …

Since the mid-1990s, the political economy of civil wars has acquired unprecedented
relevance for scholars and policymakers dealing with preventing and mitigating armed …

This dissertation deals with the phenomenon of artisanal mining in Katanga, the southeast
province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the course of the past decade, thousands …

This book provides an insight into some of the main issues that arise in post-conflict
economic and social reconstruction, and offers examples of what works, and what does not …