Armed conflict within nations has had disastrous humanitarian consequences throughout much of the world. Here we undertake the first comprehensive examination of the potential impact of global climate change on armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. We find strong historical linkages between civil war and temperature in Africa, with warmer years leading to significant increases in the likelihood...

Introduction At the initiative of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) will take place in May 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. A central objective of the process is to ‘redefine how the global community delivers for the world’s most vulnerable people’ living in areas impacted by armed conflict and disasters (WHS, 2015, p. 1). With a view to giving affected ...

Introduction Exposure to armed conflict has manifold implications for both military and civilian populations. Prenatal stress has detrimental effects on both obstetric outcomes, fetal development and the development of an individual later in life. As well as causing stress to the mother, armed conflicts can decimate local infrastructures making it increasingly difficult to access antenatal and ...

Cattle raiding, a longstanding practice among pastoralists in South Sudan, was historically governed by cultural authorities and ritual prohibitions. However, after decades of on-and-off integration into armed forces, raiders are now heavily armed, and military-style attacks claim dozens if not hundreds of lives at a time. Beginning with the emergence of the infamous Lou Nuer “White Army” in th...

English Abstract: In 2005, Colombia enacted the Justice and Peace Law, which was a transitional framework for addressing legal status of demobilised members paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de [United Self-Defence Colombia] other armed groups. exchange providing intelligence on whereabouts bodies people these groups had kidnapped killed, prison sentences could be reduced. Forensic experts...

22 Do natural resource windfalls increase the risk of armed conflict within a country? Yu-Hsiang Lei and Guy Michaels investigate the impact of giant oilfield discoveries on the likelihood of civil conflict.