Local institutional quality and conflict violence in Africa

Future (im)perfect? Mapping conflict, violence and extremism in Africa

This pAper expAnds on the analysis presented in a number of previous publications by the institute for security studies (iss)1 on the drivers of conflict and instability in Africa. Apart from contextual analyses from a variety of sources, the paper relies on data from three large conflict data providers, namely the Uppsala Conflict data program (UCdp) at the Uppsala University in sweden,2 the A...

Gender Violence and HIV/AIDS in Post-Conflict West Africa

Conserving Conflict? Transfrontier Conservation, Development Discourses and Local Conflict Between South Africa and Lesotho

This paper describes and analyses how discourses of conservation and development as well as migrant labour practices can be understood as transnational dynamics that both cement and complicate transnational relations. It also looks into how these dynamics articulate with, shape and are being shaped by 'the local'. Focusing on the north-eastern boundary of Lesotho in the area of the 'Maloti-Drak...

easuring ntrafamily Conflict and Violence

Confl ic t theorists present a convincing case showing that conflict is an inevitable part of all human association (Adams, 1965; Coser, 1956; Dahrendorf, 1959; Scanzoni, 1972; Simmel, 1955; Sprey, 1969). They further hold that without the changes brought about by conflict, a social unit-be it a nation, an academic department, or a family-runs a high risk of collapse. If conflict is suppressed,...

Institutional Conflict and Organizational Proxy Wars

In this paper I develop the idea of institutional conflict carried out in proxy by organizations representing the institutions. In the organizational proxy battles studied here, social movement organizations attempt to simultaneously delegitimize the targeted corporation as well as the institution which it is taken to represent. I further our understanding of institutional change by identifying...