The African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) seeks to increase the capacity of local level researchers in African countries engaged in transitional justice processes, aiming to improve the skills of African researchers, practitioners
The aim of the program is to empower local governments to engage in peace building and conflict resolution towards the enhancement of sustainable peace through analysis of prevailing conditions including aspects of institutional capacity, social c
The ‘conflict trap’ shows that countries experiencing conflicts are likely to have further conflicts. Costs of conflict have the potential to provide policy makers and donors with
This project will support a comparative investigation aimed at answering the following question. How do diasporas become agents for change in countries experiencing prolonged conflict or crisis, or a difficult transition?
Colombia's land conflict is one of the fundamental obstacles to achieving the peace accords. Armed conflict leads to forced displacement of the peasant population and to the abandonment or seizure of land.
Earlier phases funded under project 102081 and 103312 provided field-based data and analysis on facets of specific conflicts in northern and eastern Uganda and South Sudan, and attempted to establish clear linkages between the conflicts.
The involvement of children in fighting forces continues to be widespread, undercutting security and blocking development in many fragile states.
CEIDEPAZ, an independent nongovernmental organization has been involved in research and advocacy for agrarian legislation ever since the adoption of the Peace Accords 10 years ago.
Some experts have begun to question the conceptualization of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), arguing that it is a socially created phenomenon with social, political and economic ends.