In 2007

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  Policy Papers 11-13-2007by Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk

  Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding

  Statebuilding—the construction of legitimate, effective governmental institutions—is a crucial element in any larger effort to create the conditions for a durable peace and human development in countries that are just emerging from war.

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  Policy Papers 10-13-2007by Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, and Jason Ipe

  The UN Security Council’s Counterterrorism Program: What Lies Ahead?

  After an overview of the Council’s counterterrorism initiatives since September 2001, this report provides an analysis of the Security Council’s counterterrorism program and recommendations for its improvement, with a focus on the Counter-Terrorism Committee and its Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate.From the Executive Summary: Since September 2001, the UN Security Council and its various counterterrorism-related subsidiary bodies […]

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  Policy Papers 06-14-2007by Ravi Kanbu

  Poverty and Conflict: The Inequality Link

  The focus of this paper is on conflicts within states.These range from the full scale armed conflict of a civil war (between two “states within states”), through relatively isolated and contained low intensity insurrection against the state, to regular bouts of communal violence in a “well functioning” state.This paper asks how poverty and inequality causally […]

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  Policy Papers 06-13-2007by Joseph Chamie

  Population Trends: Humanity in Transition

  The rapid growth of population is perhaps the major demographic force challenging human well-being, development, the environment, and international relations and security.It is widely acknowledged that slower population growth provides countries with more time to adjust to future population increases. This in turn increases the ability and prospects of those countries to improve the quality […]

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  Policy Papers 05-14-2007by Nils Petter Gleditsch, Idean Salehyan, and Ragnhild Nordas

  Climate Change and Conflict: The Migration Link

  From the Introduction: In this paper, we review the current state of knowledge regarding climate change and violent conflict, paying special attention to the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. We find that much of the literature is speculative and difficult to substantiate given data constraints.Indeed, current debates frequently focus on possible scenarios […]

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