With war on the rise for a decade, King's College London has gathered a team of experts from fields not typically associated with war research. The hope is that novel approaches might lead to new insights into the roots of violence, and also suggest pathways to peace.
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In fragile and conflict-affected areas, promoting effective economic growth is impossible without a thorough understanding of local conflict dynamics. Without this, programs risk causing more harm.
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How do development practitioners and their security colleagues curb perceptions that security and technical experts have two seemingly disparate goals?
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Development practitioners must consider how trauma affects the communities in which they work when designing and implementing programs. Chemonics shares a new resource that offers key principles and practical steps that development projects can use to ensure activities are trauma-sensitive at all stages of implementation.
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How can we equip teachers to support student literacy in the midst of global and regional uncertainties? Fred Kasongo reflects on the ACCELERE!1 project's training-of-trainers activities designed to strengthen early grade literacy in Eastern DRC, despite COVID-19, Ebola, and armed conflicts.
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Violent extremism and gang violence are often rooted in similar problems. What approaches work best to counter both forms of violence?
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As development practitioners, we tend to rush in with solutions to deal with complex problems. But, acknowledging problem complexity means we need to step back and give ourselves room to figure out how to achieve sustainable impact.
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Recent research shows that governance is key to countering violent extremism, but balancing immediate needs with long-term goals can be incredibly difficult in fluid conflict zones. Expert Todd Diamond shares advice based on his decades of experience.
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Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Ursula Quijano explains the new tool developed by her project to help Mexican policy-makers make evidence-based decisions about crime prevention.
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A new threat analysis framework is helping authorities anticipate where violence is likely to occur.
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According to youth violence expert Lainie Reisman, better sub-national data on crime and violence is key to making places like Juarez, once the "murder capital" of the world, safer.
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