‘Mine action’ is a generic term which includes any of the following range of activities: mine risk education, minefield survey assessment and marking, mine detection, mine clearance, destruction of stockpiled mines, assistance to mine victims including rehabilitation and reintegration,...

This report presents the external evaluation of the European Union's (EU) strategy of cooperation with the West Africa region and of its implementation over the period 2008-2016. Its main objectives are: i) to provide both the EU institutions and a broader audience with an independent and global...

This Midterm Evaluation of the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) is one of several parallel evaluations of External Financing Instruments under the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020, and feeds into the required Midterm Review report of the External Financing...

This “Evaluation of the implementation of the African Peace Facility (APF) as an instrument supporting African efforts to manage conflicts on the continent” covers the period 2014-2016 and two of the three areas supported by the APF, i.e. support to African-led Peace Support Operations...

This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities but that there are risks of strengthening group identities, reducing social cohesion,...

Defence is the ultimate public good, and it thus falls to government to determine the appropriate amount of public revenue to commit to the defence of the realm. This will depend on history, strategic threat, international security obligations, entreaties from allies and, of course, the threat...

Introduction : peace or a pipedream? -- Business, peace and natural resources : the case for peace-focused thinking -- Peace theory & natural resources companies as non-state actors -- Paradigms -- Paradigm of positive peace -- CSR practitioners and peace? -- Learning to "see" within a...

The Afghan Economy : An Historical Overview / Peter Marsden -- Locality and Power : A Methodological Approach to Afghan Rural Politics / Sayed Asef Hossaini -- Women and Economic Development in Post Conflict Afghanistan : Learning from other Muslim Nations / Nicole B. Dhanraj, Hilary...

This review of the strategic evaluations carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Co-operation and Development (DG DEVCO) is part of a DG DEVCO and European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise aimed at updating the European Consensus on...

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...