Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence,
terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s …

Recent studies of large-scale “headline” conflicts have excluded consideration of local
conflict, in large part due to the absence of representative data at low levels of geographic …

Communities with higher levels of social capital perform better than communities with lower
social capital in community-level water and sanitation interventions and have better health …

We explore the social capital impacts of a community-driven development project in the
Philippines in which communities competed for block grants for infrastructure investment …

Today's world is changing at breakneck speed, shaking the very foundations of many
societies. Increased mobility through massive urbanization and migration allows people …

This paper addresses two main questions: First, to what extent is the current international
literature on resource conflicts relevant to Indonesia? Second, to what extent have natural …

Using an examination of three NGO interventions in post‐conflict Burundi, this article
questions community‐based reconstruction as a mechanism to rebuild social capital after …

Coastal areas are particularly sensitive because they are complex, and related land use
conflicts are more intense than those in noncoastal areas. In addition to representing a …

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Peacebuilding was not a term commonly used in Timor-Leste until after the outbreak of
violence in 2006. An unresolved conflict within the military had led to wide-scale social and …