civil conflict

Myanmar’s 2016 mining moratorium substantially reduced violent conflict by cutting off armed groups’ access to resource rents and pushing workers into alternative livelihoods, demonstrating that deliberately restricting poorly governed extractive act...

Pastoral regions of Africa are witnessing a sharp increase in armed civil conflict. Research has identified ‘mismatched’ agricultural development projects as one major factor driving this violence by displacing local pastoral groups. However, the evi...

How has the destruction of digital infrastructure exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in Sudan?

How does cultural distance affect the prevalence of ethnic civil conflict and conflict-related sexual violence?

Through providing guaranteed employment for a period, workfare programmes provide insurance against the shocks to income that can lead to conflict

Demining in Mozambique had a significant impact on the economy due to large positive spillovers