The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive and critical examination of the enduring subnational conflict in Asia, and international efforts to help through official development aid. A clear understanding of the unique challenges in subnational conflict-affected areas is needed to adapt development approaches and improve their relevance and ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Climate change and conflict: A systematic evidence review
This paper aims to analyse the evidence for the connections between climate change and violent conflict. The paper presents two main levels of analysis. The first level reports what academic research says is happening about climate change and violent conflict. The second level then considers how these studies make their arguments for linking climate change and conflict. ...» more
Addressing horizontal inequalities as drivers of conflict in the Post-2015 development agenda
This paper analyses how inequalities, violent conflicts, and the relation between them, are holding back development, adding to the arguments for addressing them in the post-2015 framework.The paper reviews evidence that various inequalities – economic, political, cultural, gender and those related to security, justice and social services – can heighten group grievances and ...» more
Women, Custom and Access to Justice
Largely based on presentations made during a symposium, this issue of Perspectives provides insight into some of the following country-specific challenges and controversies with regards to women’s access to justice in selected sub-Saharan African states. How does customary law, and the way in which the national legislative process is used, entrench gender inequalities, ...» more
Working with the politics: How to improve public services for the poor
Beyond recognising that institutions matter for development, how should governments that are striving to achieve more equitable and efficient service delivery approach the challenge of institutional reform? This policy briefing discusses two major themes. First, recent research has moved beyond the recognition that ‘context matters’ to specify just how it matters and what ...» more