The paper presents findings from the first-ever systematic review of the causal impact of
development aid on violence in countries affected by civil war. The review identifies 19 …

High levels of violence and insecurity are highly detrimental for societies. United Nations
Sustainable Development Goal 16 is advocating for peaceful, accountable and inclusive …

The main objective of this paper is to systematically identify potential channels of
transmission linking civil war and poverty that may lead to the persistence of cycles of …

This article examines the role of economic inequality in influencing the risk of armed conflict
between communal groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that socioeconomic inequality …

Ecosystem services are the benefits that people derive from nature. Some benefits, such as
crops, fish, and freshwater (provisioning services), are tangible. Others such as pollination …

All parts of a country are rarely equally affected by political violence. Yet statistical studies
largely fail to address sub-national conflict dynamics. We address this gap studying …

Contesting Development addresses major issues at the nexus of development research and
policy: the level of local conflict accompanying institutional transitions; the role of …

Social violence in Indonesia centres around vigilantism/popular justice and group brawls.
This kind of violence occurs frequently and, hence, can be described asroutine'. While …

This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has
shaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of protests. The empirical …

How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with
examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka. Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use …