A5041513832- Political Conflict and Governance
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- International Development and Aid
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- African history and culture studies
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- African Studies and Ethnography
- African history and culture analysis
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
University of Sussex
2014-2024
East Sussex County Council
2018
Peace Research Institute Oslo
2007-2014
University of Colorado System
2007-2014
Trinity College Dublin
2009-2013
University of Colorado Boulder
2004-2007
Centre for Advanced Study
2007
University of Essex
2007
International Peace Institute
2007
This article presents ACLED, an Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset. ACLED codes the actions of rebels, governments, militias within unstable states, specifying exact location date battle events, transfers military control, headquarter establishment, civilian violence, rioting. In current version, dataset covers 50 countries from 1997 through 2010. ACLED’s disaggregation civil war transnational violent events allow for research on local level factors dynamics communal conflict....
Previous research on environment and security has contested the existence, nature significance of a climate driver conflict. In this study, we have focused small-scale conflict over East Africa where link between resource availability is assumed to be more immediate direct. Using parameter rainfall variability explore marginal influence conflict, article shows that in locations experience rebel or communal events, frequency these events increases periods extreme variation, irrespective sign...
Journal Article Political Marginalization, Climate Change, and Conflict in African Sahel States Get access Clionadh Raleigh Trinity College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 69–86, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2009.00913.x Published: 09 2010
A recent Climatic Change review article reports a remarkable convergence of scientific evidence for link between climatic events and violent intergroup conflict, thus departing markedly from other contemporary assessments the empirical literature. This commentary revisits in order to understand discrepancy. We believe origins disagreement can be traced back article's underlying quantitative meta-analysis, which suffers shortcomings with respect sample selection analytical coherence. modified...
This study investigates the relationship between violent conflict, food price, and climate variability at subnational level. Using disaggregated data on 113 African markets from January 1997 to April 2010, interrelationships three variables are analyzed in simultaneous equation models. We find that: (i) a positive feedback exists price violence - higher prices increase conflict rates within increases prices; (ii) anomalously dry conditions associated with increased frequencies of conflict;...
Abstract Conflict event datasets are used widely in academic, policymaking, and public spheres. Accounting for political violence across the world requires detailing conflict types, agents, characteristics, source information. The policymaking communities may underestimate impact of data collection decisions global, real-time datasets. Here, we consider four with global coverage demonstrate how they differ by definitions conflict, which aspects information-sourcing processes prioritize....
This article examines the link between subnational poverty and location of civil war events. Drawing on ACLED dataset, which breaks internal conflicts down to individual events at local level, we take a disaggregated approach study conflict. Local-level socioeconomic data are taken from Liberian Demographic Health Survey. With geographical cells approximately 76 km 2 as units analysis, test how absolute relative welfare affect presence number conflict during 1989-2002 war. We control for...
Journal Article The myth of global Islamic terrorism and local conflict in Mali the Sahel Get access Caitriona Dowd, Dowd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Clionadh Raleigh * *Caitriona (nidhubcm@tcd.ie) is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin. (raleighc@tcd.ie) Associate Professor Geography African Affairs, Volume 112, Issue 448, July 2013, Pages 498–509, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adt039 Published: 29 May 2013
This analysis of urban political violence across Africa considers why the proportion and frequency conflict is increasing in areas while decreasing rural areas. The decline formally organized predominantly areas, increase more variegated forms opposition zones, interrogated through demographic grievance-based explanations. Urban displays a range agents, goals, intensities, triggers alternatively regarded as response to lack capacity poor governance found contexts, or changing character...
Almost all African states experience substantial and widespread political insecurity in a variety of forms. This analysis explains how relationships between groups governments create incentives disincentives for distinct forms violence to emerge. It argues that ethno-regional communities across Africa are situated within power hierarchy determines their relative importance to, inclusion in, regimes. A dynamic landscape emerges from group positions. Various positions associated with...
Abstract Disaggregated approaches to conflict research have led new insights into the patterns and processes of political violence in developing countries. This article uses most comprehensive subnational data (ACLED) observe where when against civilians occurs within civil wars. Several conclusions are evident from an event-based analysis civilian violence: retribution or collateral damage poor explanations for attacks on unarmed. Instead, targeted because they accessible; rebel groups kill...
This article concerns governance and violence rates across the 'ungoverned' spaces of African Sahel. We consider how dominant narrative for Africa generally, Sahel specifically, 'securitizes' space, presents poverty, underdevelopment, as security threats to be addressed (Abrahamsen 2005; Keenan 2008). argue that terms 'failed' have become coterminous common because they benefit various state international powers within Sahel, who avoid responsibility geo-political economic processes these...
Across African states, militias have become one of the main agents political violence, accounting for a third all recent conflict. Militia violence is attributed to cultural reactions disorder, failing and predatory local cleavages which emerge during civil wars. However, activity largely occurs in democratizing states without This article presents typology based on their roles actions an explanation prevalence “competition militias.” Changes macro politics ushered new era conflict...
The ‘perfect storm’ that enveloped Mali in 2012 has since escalated into a protracted and widespread crisis across the Sahel. region currently hosts multiple, moving threats, which are most active three states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger. In those alone, between 2019, there have been 1,463 armed clashes, 4,723 civilians killed, at hands 195 violent groups, 1,263 discrete locations.1 Violence reached its highest level to date 2019 continues heightened frequency, suggesting dangerous...
In this article, we investigate how the political geography of local power and national-subnational alignment influences distribution conflict between election contests. We ask consistently intermediaries, such as members parliament (MPs), can sustain their own support that successful national candidate. The best measure for ability elites to generate keep is candidate vote margins. These results recast areas core, swing or costly regime investments, which in turn streams patronage authority...
With increased availability of disaggregated conflict event data for analysis, there are new and old concerns about bias. All have biases, which we define as an inclination, prejudice, or directionality to information. In data, often perceptions damaging bias, skepticism can emanate from several areas, including confidence in whether collection procedures create systematic omissions, inflations, misrepresentations. As curators analysts large, popular projects, uniquely aware biases that...
This article presents ACPED- the African Cabinet and Political Elite Data project. project is a disaggregated set of cabinet ministers positions by country month from 1997 into real time. representation groups across Africa often portrayed as result static, predictable ethno-demographic arithmetic. An associated perception that regimes are ethnically exclusive leaders over-represent co-ethnics, close allies some strong challengers coup-proofing exercise. paper measures heterogenous political...
Conflict and climate change might be present in the same areas expose communities that struggle with these dual risks, but they do not co-occur consistent or predictable ways. We question how to effectively adapt experiencing violence. can make adaptation more difficult, when local conflict patterns are better understood it is possible introduce measures effective responsive needs of population. Further, we argue mitigation a adaptation. Even zones, most adaptations focus on climate-centred...