Worldwide, children suffer a diverse and toxic array of effects of armed conflict, which increasingly are protracted and intermixed with problems such as terrorism. To support war-affected children, it is necessary to understand how children have been affected by war and to use appropriate conceptual analyses to inform the design of effective interventions. This paper introduces 2 thematic Spec...

This article analyzes incentive conflicts that government officials face in operating a deposit insurance fund. Unresolved principal-agent problems exist between fund managers, the politicians to whom they report, and the taxpayers who constitute the enterprise's ultimate stockholders. Managers' ability to conceal implicit losses creates a conflict between maximizing the present value of the fu...

Conflict-related sexual violence has been the focus of significant international activism and policy attention. International legal norms frameworks have evolved to recognize it as a war crime, representation “weapon war” is now widely endorsed. This article examines how about conflict-related are adopted utilized in multiple ways armed conflict Kachin state northern Myanmar. Throughout decades...

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The article by Potts et al, “The Pill is Mightier than the Sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. Evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

The gendered impact of fear from persistent insecurities informs women’s navigation within and through conflict- conservation-shaped landscapes. This article introduces a feminist emotional geography approach into discussions concerning the relationship between conservation conflict studies to explore how enables self-determination agency in generating survival strategies with(in) such ‘violent...