Recent studies in general are positive regarding the effectiveness of US counterinsurgency programs in Iraq. The right mix of coercion, ethnic strategy, and public goods provision, it is argued, makes Iraqis less likely to rebel against the US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing insurgent violence. In fact, the number of insurgent attacks dramatically declined shortly ...» 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.
Measuring and Decomposing Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor Using Ordinal Data: A Counting Approach
Poverty has many dimensions, which, in practice, are often binary or ordinal in nature. A number of multidimensional measures of poverty have recently been proposed that respect this ordinal nature. These measures agree that the consideration of inequality across the poor is important, which is typically captured by adjusting the poverty measure to be sensitive to inequality. ...» more
Transitional Justice and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The failure to realize economic, social and cultural rights as well as violations of these rights can be—and usually are—part of the root causes of conflict. Furthermore, the actions and omissions by States and non-state actors during conflict can also amount to violations of economic, social and cultural rights, and often have a particular impact on the most vulnerable. Yet, ...» more
War and the Destruction of Human Capital
The identification of the effect of wars on human capital tends to focus on the population of school age children at the time of the conflict. This paper introduces a methodology to estimate the effect of war on the stock of human capital by examining the changes in the presence of educated people after the Rwanda genocide. It finds that the genocide reduced the stock of human ...» more
Conflict and the Formation of Political Beliefs in Africa
This study tests whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. It combines data on the location and intensity of conflicts since 1945 with nationally representative data on political attitudes and behaviours from 17 sub-Saharan African countries. Exposure from ages 0 to 14 has a very small standardized impact on later attitudes and ...» more