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Mapping Territorial Control in Violent Armed Conflict
In Research Brief No. 12, CCAPS researchers present a new methodology for coding the territorial influence of governments and rebel groups for use in conjunction with sub-nationally geocoded foreign aid data to understand whether and how foreign aid affects the intensity of violent armed conflict.
Advances in Mapping Climate Security Vulnerability in Africa
In Research Brief No. 13, CCAPS researchers present the Climate Security Vulnerability Model which identifies the locations of chronic vulnerability to climate security concerns in Africa. This version of the model incorporates updated data sources, scales the data in a new way to capture differences in local vulnerabilities, and experiments with alternative formulas to determine…
Conflict Trends April 2013
This issue of Conflict Trends focuses on recent developments in Central African Republic (CAR), Kenya, Mali, Nigeria and South Sudan. The special focus section this month provides a conceptual and methodological overview of ACLED terminology and categorization of violence, and its relevance to the analysis and understanding of discrete patterns and dynamics of conflict.
Climate Security Vulnerability in Africa Mapping 3.0
Joshua Busby presents Climate Security Vulnerability in Africa Mapping 3.0 at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco, California on April 3-6, 2013.
Food Price Spikes and Social Unrest in Africa
Todd G. Smith presents Food Price Spikes and Social Unrest in Africa at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco, California on April 3-6, 2013.
The Geography of Foreign Assistance: A Case Study in Malawi
Dylan Malcomb presented The Geography of Foreign Assistance: A Case Study of Malawi at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco, California on April 3-6, 2013.
Shocks and Politics: The Political Economy of Natural Disasters in Africa
CCAPS researchers Jennifer Bussell and Adam Colligan present their research on the political economy of natural disasters in Africa at the International Studies Association Conference in San Francisco, California on April 3-6, 2013. Drawing on a new case material from ten countries, the researchers evaluate the role of perceived risk, economic conditions, electoral politics, political…
Climate Change and Development in Africa
In CCAPS Student Working Paper No. 5, a graduate student research team set out to examine how to effectively track development aid to Africa, develop a methodology to track climate change adaptation aid, and explore case studies about the challenges that African countries face when deploying aid resources to adapt to climate change.
Institutional Capacity for Natural Disasters: Findings from Case Studies
In CCAPS Research Brief No. 10, Jennifer Bussell suggests that the two clearest predictors of countries’ investment in disaster preparedness are economic strength and perceived risk of natural threats. However, these factors explain little when there is limited electoral incentive to invest in disaster management or minimal bureaucratic capacity to implement preparedness programs.