Institutional Capacity for Natural Disasters: Case Studies in Africa
In CCAPS Student Working Paper No. 6, a team of researchers led by Dr. Jennifer Bussell explores the causes of variation in government policies to reduce the risk of, prepare…
Conflict Trends May 2014
In the May 2014 edition of ACLED’s Conflict Trends report, CCAPS researchers Clionadh Raleigh and Caitriona Dowd examine unrest in Algeria and Tunisia, the ongoing crisis in central Africa, the run up…
Conflict Trends April 2014
The April 2014 issue of Conflict Trends report focuses on Central Africa and the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Central African Republic, DR-Congo, Rwanda, Uganda), Madagascar, South Sudan, and Sudan, with a special…
ACLED Regional Report: North Africa
This ACLED regional report underscores the changing complexity of North Africa’s conflict profile by providing an analysis of the role and activity of the state in political violence, dynamics of…
Constitutional Reform for Conflict Management
In Course Module No. 2, CCAPS researcher Alan Kuperman addresses a longstanding debate between academics and policymakers regarding two opposing strategies of constitutional design—accommodation and integration. Kuperman argues that both…
Conflict Trends March 2014
The March 2014 issue of Conflict Trends report examines the ongoing violence in the Central African Republic, the devolution of power in Kenya and its effect on local conflict in the country,…
Malawi’s Open Aid Map
In 2011, Malawi became the first country in the world to capture the near-universe of official development aid activities at the subnational level in a publicly available, dynamic map. In…
Conflict Trends February 2014
The February 2014 issue of Conflict Trends report focuses on the escalation of conflict in Central African Republic, political developments in Kenya and Mozambique, and prospects for peace in South Sudan. The report also provides an…
Extreme Temperatures and Violence
In a recent article featured in Nature Climate Change, CCAPS researcher Clionadh Raleigh examines the theory that extreme weather events are the drivers of insecurity and conflict. She argues that suggesting…
Conflict Trends January 2014
This issue of Conflict Trends will provide an overview of 2013 as captured in Version 4 of the ACLED dataset, before profiling dynamics in North Africa, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of…