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Global Gangs: A Comparative Research Project
This project seeks to address the blatant lack of cross-country comparison in the literature on youth gangs. It is constructed around a two-day workshop, to be held in Geneva on 14-15 May 2009, that will bring together individuals with an in-depth experience of primary research, who will each be commissioned to write short, precise contributions on youth gangs in their context of expertise. The focus on cross-country comparison will offer important opportunities to exchange information and current research findings, to build upon existing knowledge, and to debate a number of commonly held perceptions and theories. It is hoped that the workshop will lead to insights that will enable the re-writing of contributions in a proper comparative light for a planned volume that will be truly comparative in nature rather than a simple juxtaposition of different gang studies.
Thomas Biersteker
Oliver Jütersonke
Dennis Rodgers
Jennifer Hazen
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Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence (URCV)
The URCV project explores how formal and informal institutions in city systems transform and adapt over time in response to political, economic and social forms of violence. Led by the CCDP, collaborating partners from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Universities of Columbia, Copenhagen, Manchester, Neuchatel and Utrecht will undertake research on institutions associated with security provision, basic service delivery, governance/regulation and livelihoods. Initial research will focus on Beirut, Mexico, Medellin, Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro together with a range of historical case studies. Undertaken between 2009 and 2011, findings will be disseminated in online and hard-copy form through a series of timely issue briefs, academic articles as well as an edited volume expected in 2012.
Robert Muggah
Oliver Jütersonke
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Civil Society and Peacebuilding
The objective of this three-year research project is to contribute to a better understanding of the role of civil society in support of peacebuilding - during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The project looks specifically at the constructive role that civil society can play in peacebuilding processes as well as the main obstacles that may hinder the fulfilment of this role. The approach taken by the project is to apply a common theory-based analytical framework in 13 country case studies. The research is accompanied by a joint process of reflection and exchange with all involved researchers over a series of workshops.
Thania Paffenholz
Mariya Nicolova
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International Cooperation in Fragile Contexts and Situations of Armed Conflict
The main objective of this policy-oriented research project is to assess the existing knowledge of international engagement in fragile, conflict situations both in terms of previous research and donor/agency community practices, in order to gain a better understanding of the various underlying assumptions that guide donor interventions in fragile, conflict situations, as well as the existing conceptual and empirical knowledge existent in research and practice.
Thania Paffenholz
Achim Wennmann
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Economic Issues and Tools in Peace Processes
Despite an ever growing evidence base on the linkages between economic factors and armed conflict, there has been surprisingly little work on the practical implications that these insights may have for the mediation of peace agreements. As such, this project aims to provide and facilitate a greater understanding of the role, in both positive and negative terms, that economic issues can play within peace processes in post-conflict situations, and additionally what tools may be most helpful in ensuring that the peace in these situations is subsequently sustainable. The research will then be distilled in a series of Case Study Reports and Policy Briefs.
Achim Wennmann
Jana Krause
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Global and Local Governance of Natural Resources: The Case of Oil and Gas
This research project focuses on newly emerging forms of governance aiming to avert the so-called “resource curse” by examining the evolving roles and responsibilities of two key stakeholders in the governance of hydrocarbons: Civil society organizations and economic actors (extractive industries and the financial sector). It looks at the interactions between them and the State, both at the global level and in selected oil producing countries. The objective is to distil new insights and lessons to contribute to improving the impact of multi-stakeholder initiatives on oil and gas producing countries in the developing world in terms of governance and sustainable, inclusive development.
Gilles Carbonnier
Jana Krause
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