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Don’t rock the boat? Fears of conflict and support for protest in Iraq and beyondWhy do people support—or refrain from supporting—nonviolent protests for political change?...
protest Nonviolene ConflictWorking Paper
The loser’s long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflictThis paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years...
Civil conflict Class ElectionsWorking Paper
The legacy of church–state conflict: Evidence from Nazi repression of Catholic priestsA burgeoning literature on repression against civilians argues that exposure to violence changes victims’ identities by strengthening attachment to the in-group and creates downstream effects for political and social behaviour that persist acro...
Elites Repression Voting behaviourWorking Paper
Mothers at peace: post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeepingArmed conflict can shape reproductive behaviour as high child mortality and a lack of health services lead to higher fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times...
Human fertility Conflict PeaceWorking Paper
Understanding Somalia’s social contract and state-building efforts: Consequences for donor interventionsBuilding on a World Bank regional study in Africa aiming at measuring social contracts concepts and within the framework of reflecting on future donor interventions, this paper applies social contracts measurement and complements with qualitative ass...
Somalia Social contract SecurityWorking Paper
Ethnic inequality, the federal character principle, and the reform of Nigeria’s presidential federalismThe federal character principle is Nigeria’s primary formula for mitigating horizontal inequality and conflict in this chronically fractured society...
Horizontal inequality Conflict Ethnic diversityNews
Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino appointed as Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER
Conflict Trust Governance Journal Article
An exploration of the association between fuel subsidies and fuel riotsBetween 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international dataset on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots...
Fuel subsidies Riots protestIn the media
UNU-WIDER experts and the WIDER Development Conference featured in the mediaKalle Hirvonen , Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, was interviewed by YLE for a news article published on 10 March 2022 on the effects of the Ukraine war on global food security. ‘The war in Ukraine is causing a major supply shock to the world...
WIDER Development Conference Conflict Food securityPresentation
UNU-WIDER at the World Village Festival 2022
Project workshop
Workshop on Institutional legacies of violent conflict
Working Paper
Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societiesTo date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes...
Political violence War ConflictPanel discussion
UNU-WIDER at ISA 2022 Annual ConventionUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino and Research Associate Rute Martins Caeiro join in a virtual panel discussion Trust and Governance in Unstable Democracies on 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC-5) as part of the International Studies...
Blog
Superpowers, super-spoilers, and hybrid warfare: What the new Cold War means for global cooperation
Last week we woke up to a conflict that had echoes of the Second World War, the Cold War, and the last two decades of hybrid conflict all mixed into one. It is difficult to look beyond the immediate suffering and scale of violations in Ukraine...
Conflict War Armed conflictBlog
How will the Russia-Ukraine war be fought?: External support and insurgency tactics
The Ukrainian state, personified by its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy , has been heroic and has surprised many by its ' stiff resistance '. However, Ukrainian cities are increasingly under siege and Russia is sending in reinforcements...
Conflict WarBlog
The conflict in Ukraine - the role of civilians
While there is much to discuss about the geopolitics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, let's not forget the men, women and children of Ukraine who now face utter devastation to their lives – they matter...
Conflict War Civic participation