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Reporting Sources
ACLED Working Paper No. 5 examines coding armed conflicts from a range of sources including newspapers, online journals, and reports by humanitarian organizations. The researchers investigate whether certain types of publications exhibit bias, if urban bias exists in conflict monitoring, and if a state’s government affects the compostion of internal conflict reporting.
Conflict Trends June 2015
The June 2015 edition of ACLED’s Conflict Trends Report focuses on civilian-targeted violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the continued encroachment of Islamic State (IS) affiliate groups in Libya, xenophobic violence in South Africa, and violent Islamist-related activity in Tanzania, LRA and ADF patterns of activity in Uganda and the surrounding Central African region.
Collective Action in North Africa
ACLED Working Paper No. 6 addresses how conflict dynamics in Egypt and Libya have transformed in the post-Arab Spring period with particular focus on the changes in contentious political strategies in response to changing institutional structures.
Conflict Trends May 2015
ACLED’s May 2015 edition of Conflict Trends focuses on the declining activity of Boko Haram, escalating protests in Burundi, and also offers an overview of a newly released ACLED working paper on shifting forms and spatial distribution of protest activity in North Africa.
Tracking Climate Aid in Africa: The Case of the World Bank
CCAPS Research Brief No. 32 discusses the policy relevance of tracking climate financing for the World Bank, recipient country governments, and development initiatives in order to improve climate adaptation strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Research Memos: Complex Emergencies and Political Stability in Asia
The CEPSA program held a one-day consultation workshop on March 5, 2015. The workshop brought together 23 participants from the CEPSA team, other universities, and nongovernmental organizations to review research memos produced by the program’s six research teams and provide critique and feedback.
Conflict Trends April 2015
The April 2015 edition of ACLED’s Conflict Trends Report focuses on the intervention of French Military Forces in West Africa, Islamist Militancy and Counter Insurgency strategies in North Africa, an analysis of violence surrounding the recent elections in Nigeria, and targeted violence against foreign nationals.
The Energy-Water-Security Nexus in the Jordan River Basin: A Sustainable Outlook for Strategic Resources?
https://www.strausscenter.org/strauss-news/strauss-center-presents-research-at-seridas-symposium.html Christine Bonthius, Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands Symposium, Hannover, 2015
Asian Conflict Trends March 2015
In the first ever issue of Asian Conflict Trends, ACLED researchers Dr. Clionadh Raleigh and Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith of the University of Sussex introduce the conflict environments and profiles of five of the eleven countries included in the South and Southeast Asia expansion of the ACLED dataset: Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.