Exploring the Security Implications of Climate Change

Research Reports

CCAPS research reports provide detailed information on the purpose, design, findings, and application of results of all studies conducted under the CCAPS program.

Democracy Aid in Difficult Contexts | 2016

CCAPS Democratic Governance researchers Ashley Moran, Brooke Escobar, and Daniel Robles-Olson explore what types of democracy aid are most successful in impacting democratic development in Africa, focusing on two particularly challenging contexts: countries recovering from…

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Final Program Report—Climate, Conflict, and Governance in Africa: Pinpointing Risks and Opportunities | 2016

CCAPS is a multi-year research effort to identify where and how climate change could undermine state stability, to define strategies for building African state capacity, and to assess global development aid responses. Based at the…

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Mapping Food Security Assistance in Malawi | 2016

In a Brookings Institutions paper, researchers Kate Weaver, Krista Rasmussen, Justin Baker, and Joshua Powell discuss a new methodology used to improve the analytic power of data on food security. The aid- tracking pilot provides…

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Urban Resilience to Climate Change Challenges in Africa | 2015

The report is based on a year-long Policy Research Project course that was co-directed by Robert H. Wilson and Todd G. Smith during the 2012-2013 academic year. The project explores the role of local government…

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Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa: Preventing Civil War through Institutional Design | 2015

CCAPS is pleased to announce that the research of its Constitutional Design and Conflict Management (CDCM) project has recently been published as a book by the University of Pennsylvania Press, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa:…

The Cycle of Conflict in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia, 2011-2014 | 2015

In ACLED Working Paper No. 7, Tunisia’s turbulent democratic transition is analyzed through existing theories of Islamist violence, as well as a model of protest cycles. The validity of the protest cycle model is tested…

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Reporting Sources | 2015

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…

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Collective Action in North Africa | 2015

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…

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Pinpointing Risks and Opportunities: Final CCAPS Program Report | 2014

This report summarizes CCAPS program findings in its nine core research areas: climate security vulnerability, future climate projections over Africa, climate change and conflict, armed conflict tracking, constitutional design and conflict management, democracy aid in…

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Urban Resilience to Climate Change Challenges in Africa | 2014

In CCAPS Working Paper No. 4, Robert Wilson and Todd Smith examine the responses and adaptations to climate change within ten African cities. Using a comparative case study approach, field research was conducted on the…

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