Author: Freida M’Cormack Abstract This paper explores the prospects of complementary rather than competitive dispute resolution and justice systems in Liberia. It specifically considers women’s...
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NGO Presence and Activity in Afghanistan, 2000–2014: A Provincial-Level Dataset
David F. Mitchell This article introduces a new provincial-level dataset on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Afghanistan. The data—which are freely available for download—provide information...
Migratory Crisis in the Mediterranean: Managing Irregular Flows
Author: Susana Ferreira Abstract The current migratory crisis in the Mediterranean questions the European Union’s (EU) capacity to manage migratory flows. So far, the EU has placed a particular...
Mass Claims in Land and Property Following the Arab Spring: Lessons from Yemen
Jon D. Unruh The Arab Spring uprisings have released a flood of land and property conflicts, brought about by decades of autocratic rule. Expropriations, corruption, poor performance of the rule of...
Courts, Clans and Companies: Mobile Money and Dispute Resolution in Somaliland
Authors: Nicole Stremlau, Ridwan Osman Abstract One of the world’s most ambitious experiments in mobile money is underway in the Somali territories. In the absence of a strong central government and...
‘It’s Not a Gift When It Comes with Price’: A Qualitative Study of Transactional Sex between UN Peacekeepers and Haitian Citizens
Authors: Athena Kolbe Abstract Sexual exploitation of civilians by peacekeepers undermines the fragile stability established in post-conflict settings. Despite this, it continues to be an ongoing...
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Does Security Imply Safety? On the (Lack of) Correlation Between Different Aspects of Security
Authors: Anouk Rigterink Abstract This paper investigates to what extent different aspects of security correlate. It distinguishes four concepts covered by the term ‘security’: technical safety,...
Former Military Networks a Threat to Peace? The Demobilisation and Remobilization of Renamo in Central Mozambique
Authors: Nikkie Wiegink Abstract Renamo’s recent upsurge against the Mozambican Frelimo-led government after 22 years of relative stability has challenged the country’s often celebrated disarmament,...
Integration and Power-Sharing: What are the Future Options for Armed Non-State Actors in the Myanmar Peace Process?
Authors: Helene Maria Kyed , Mikael Gravers Abstract Myanmar is confronted with a contested peace process after over six decades of armed conflict between the national army and around 20 ethnic Armed...
The Congo Trap: MONUSCO Islands of Stability in the Sea of Instability
Authors: Alberto Barrera Abstract 2014 was a hopeful year for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The M23 movement had been defeated in military operations in which one of the last peacekeeping...
Security and the Stabilization of Colombia
Abstract Foreword for the Special Collection Citizen Security Dialogues in Colombia: Controlling the territory and building security and justice in post-conflict contexts From war to peace: security...
Operationalizing Protection of Civilians in NATO Operations
Abstract Though NATO and other military forces increasingly recognize protection of civilians as a key objective in their operations, implementation remains challenging. To effectively protect, the...
Preparing Stabilisation for 21st Century Security Challenges
Authors: Steven A. Zyck , Robert Muggah Abstract Stabilisation, as a concept and set of practices, has proliferated over the past two decades and is now implicitly integrated into a range of global...
Security Sector Reform and the Paradoxical Tension between Local Ownership and Gender Equality
Authors: Eleanor Gordon , Anthony Cleland Welch, Emmicki Roos Abstract This article analyses the tension or conflict that can exist between the principles of local ownership and gender equality that...
Resonating, Rejecting, Reinterpreting: Mapping the Stabilization Discourse in the United Nations Security Council, 2000–14
Abstract This article charts the evolution of the conceptualisation of stabilization in the UN Security Council (UNSC) during the period 2001–2014. UNSC open meetings provide an important dataset for...
Towards More People-Centric Peace Operations: From ‘Extension of State Authority’ to ‘Strengthening Inclusive State-Society Relations’
Abstract Periods of conflict erode trust between national and local authorities and the people they govern, a trust that needs to be re-established. As peace operations are undertaken by...
Rethinking Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programs
Abstract This article introduces the special issue on DDR and ‘Armed Non-Statutory Actors’ (ANSAs) which we prefer to the less precise label of Armed Non-State Actors. The understanding that...
The Security Gap in Syria: Individual and Collective Security in ‘Rebel-held’ Territories
Abstract This paper examines security in Syria through the conceptual lens of the security gap, understood as the gap between security practices and objectives which have implications for individual...
The Afghan Local Police – Closing the Security Gap?
Authors: Sam Vincent, Florian Weigand, Hameed Hakimi Abstract The Afghan Local Police (ALP) was designed as an international counterinsurgency programme that works by raising small, village-level...
Iraq: Learning Civilian Protection the Hard Way
Authors: Sahr Muhammedally Abstract This article—based on the author’s interviews with civilians and security forces in areas retaken from the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in Northern Iraq in...