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This paper aims at understanding the dynamics of sectarian violence in the city of Beirut, by looking at the early phase of violence in the Lebanese civil war (1975-90), and the process of dividing Beirut into various sectarian enclaves controlled by the warring militias. The paper aims to show...

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Dar es Salaam as a 'harbour of peace' in East Africa : tracing the role of creolized urban ethnicity in nation-state formation

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2010

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Dar es Salaam as a 'harbour of peace' in East Africa: Tracing the role of creolized urban ethnicity in nation-state formation

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2010

Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining tranquil and true to its name, the 'harbour of peace'. This paper explores the interface between ethnic and national identities in Tanzania's capital city, focusing on its ethnic...

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Corporate urbanization : between the future and survival in Lebanon

Sharp, Deen S. - 2018

capitalization is now central to the urbanization process and that the urban fabric has provided the corporation with a durable … structure to guarantee a stream of income. Capitalized urbanization, I contend, is the building of a certain future into the … urban present - also understood as the extension of time (the future) through the concentration of space (urbanization). It …

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Transit-oriented development policies and station area development in Asian cities

Kidokoro, Tetsuo - 2019

Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development (TOD) policies will be a key to the...

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Urbanization and conflict in market societies

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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict

Jetter, Michael - 2018

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable,...

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Can social assistance reduce violent conflict and civil unrest? : evidence from a large-scale public works programme in Ethiopia

Hirvonen, Kalle; Machado, Elia; Simons, Andrew M. - 2024

We assess how one of the largest public works programmes in the world-Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)-affected violent conflict and civil unrest. Using difference-in-differences methods and linking administrative and geocoded conflict event data, we find that the PSNP did not...

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Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon

Sharp, Deen Shariff - 2018

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The gendered nature of asset accumulation in urban contexts : longitudinal results from Guayaquil, Ecuador

Moser, Caroline O. N.; Felton, Andrew - 2010

This paper examines the gendered nature of asset accumulation between 1978 and 2004 in Indio Guayas, a low-income community on the periphery of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. In so doing, it emphasizes both the importance of combining quantitative and qualitative intra-household data, as well...

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