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CCAPS Mapping of Integrated Security Recognized by the Swedish Defense Research Agency
The Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) recently released a brief on integrated security in which they mention several agencies doing impactful work on implementing integrated security initiatives. Of those agencies named, the FOI praised the Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS). CCAPS is a multi-year research program that examines the relationship…
Social Conflict Analysis Database Releases 2014 Data for Africa and Latin America
The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict. Conflict events from 2014 have now been added, tracking events from 1990-2014 in all of Africa as well as thirteen countries in Latin America. These new locations have been added to enable cross-comparisons…
ACLED Releases December 2015 Conflict Trends Report
The December 2015 issue of Conflict Trends focuses on Boko Haram violence and general elections in Nigeria, xenophobic riots and tuition fee protests in universities in South Africa, the trajectory of conflict in South Sudan as it enters its third year of civil war, an increase in ethnic and communal violence as pro-government militias scaled down…
ACLED Releases November 2015 Conflict Trends Report
The November 2015 issue of Conflict Trends focuses on the diffusion of protests in Algeria amidst elite corruption, State of Sinai activity and parliamentary elections in Egypt, intra-party political violence in Guinea, political contestation in Republic of Congo following President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s constitutional amendment to term limits, demonstrations over university fees in South Africa, and…
CCAPS Releases African Constitutional Design Database
The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and Political Stability Program (CCAPS) program is excited to announce the release of its African Constiutional Design Database, which presents cross-sectional data on constitutional design across all African states, dating back to 2011. The database, compiled by Eli Poupko, was completed for the book chapter, “Africa’s Domestic Institutions of Integration and…
Symposium on Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa
On Friday, October 16, 2015, the Strauss Center hosted a symposium entitled Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa. The symposium focused on new research published in the book Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa: Preventing Civil War Through Institutional Design edited by Dr. Alan Kuperman, an Associate Professor at the LBJ School and a Strauss…
Kuperman’s Recent Book Examined in Daily Nation Article
A Daily Nation article titled “Democracy in Africa and how to Improve it,” written by Nic Cheeseman and Alexander Noyes, quotes Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Alan J. Kuperman in reference to his new book, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa: Preventing Civil War Through Institutional Design. The article examines the role of democratic reform in…
