Publications
Briefs
These concise summaries of current CEPSA research focus on conflict, complex emergencies, climate hazards and disasters, and governance issues impacting countries in South and Southeast Asia. These research briefs discuss ongoing program research, findings, and next steps.
Asian Conflict Trends August 2017
The August 2017 ACLED-Asia’s Conflict Trends Report includes comprehensive analysis of real-time political violence in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. A Special Focus Topic discusses Islamist insurgencies in the…
Disaster Preparedness in Pakistan
CEPSA disaster preparedness researchers Asim Fayaz and Jennifer Bussell discuss the history and character of natural hazards in Pakistan, the current status of preparedness initiatives, and evaluate potential explanations for these outcomes.
Country Briefs
These concise summaries of current CEPSA research focus on conflict, complex emergencies, climate hazards and disasters, and governance issues impacting countries in South and Southeast Asia. These research briefs discuss ongoing program research, findings, and next steps.
Codebooks
These concise summaries of current CEPSA research focus on conflict, complex emergencies, climate hazards and disasters, and governance issues impacting countries in South and Southeast Asia. These research briefs discuss ongoing program research, findings, and next steps.
Climate Disaster Aid Transparency Codebook
The codebook for the CEPSA Aid Transparency dataset investigates the availability and quality of project documentation for a randomly selected set of projects from five major donors and 11 countries in order to understand the availability…
ACLED Asia Codebook
The codebook for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset (ACLED) explains the data collection process, coding methodology, and definitions for conflict actor types and events.
Reports
These concise summaries of current CEPSA research focus on conflict, complex emergencies, climate hazards and disasters, and governance issues impacting countries in South and Southeast Asia. These research briefs discuss ongoing program research, findings, and next steps.
Final Program Report on Complex Emergencies and Political Stability in Asia | 2019
This report summarizes CEPSA program findings on disaster vulnerability and response, conflict assessment, complex emergencies, and Asian politics. Understanding how different insecurities coalesce to impact vulnerability in Asia—and assessing when and how these insecurities can develop into…
Working Paper: Politicizing Disaster Preparation | 2017
CEPSA researcher Jennifer Bussell uses new and unique data on disaster preparedness training from India’s states to show that it is not simply exposure to past hazards that predicts preparedness policies, but rather the character of…
