It has often been predicted that large numbers of people will be displaced by climate change
and that this will lead to violent conflict. At the core of this prediction is a simple causal model …

Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many
children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and …

Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them,
this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting …

Few issues in international politics have dominated public debates, both in domestic and
international arenas, as much as refugee movements across borders in recent years. By the …

Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger
and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges …

Research papers are policy documents commissioned by the World Refugee Council from
world-renowned experts to help inform the work of the Council and its final …

A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of
conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been …

Although refugee camps are established to accommodate, protect, and assist those fleeing
from violent conflict and persecution, life often remains difficult there. Building on empirical …

Recent scholarship has found evidence that refugee flows may inadvertently contribute to
the spread of conflict across borders. Little is known, however, about the spatial diffusion of …

Africa has continued to be looked down upon by the Western powers. Negative perceptions
and representations such as civil wars, hunger, corruption, greed, selfishness, diseases …