For the purpose of this booklet, custody refers to any place where individuals are being held by law enforcement officers or people acting with the agreement of law enforcement officers. These plac…
Conflict in Northern Ghana appears to be increasing in amplitude and frequency and its effects are getting more devastating. It is the view of this book that The Government of Ghana and civil socie…
"In it's first part, the Global Overview, the report profiles documented conflict-related sexual violence in 51 countries - in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East - that have exp…
Peacekeeping in Africa: Capabilities and Culpabilities provides detailed insight into the efforts by the international community and regional and subregional organizations to promote peace and secu…
What the media has missed – the 2011 uprisings in their African context. • Pambazuka News's respected writers offer in-the-moment comment and analysis as well as informed reflection. • An a…
a review of progress since the 1996 United Nations Report on the impact of armed conflict on children
Young women are at risk even during times of peace. They are often subjected to violence and denied sexual and reproductive health and rights. More than any other group in society, teenage girls ar…
As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peace-building takes centre stage. This coll…
What happens to women in the aftermath of war and internal conflict? This book asserts that the post-war period is too late for women to transform patriarchal gender relations; the foundations for …
When wars are fought in the midst of civilian activity, as they so often are in poorer countries, the effects on children are devastating. They may grow up separated from their families, without ad…
This report presents a sample of 46 cases that comply with the description in Pinheiro’s statement but remain unrecognised as political arrests. They are people mostly in Burma’s ethnic areas d…
* Much has been written about women who have survived wartime sexual violence, but this is the first book to consider how to protect the children born as a result * Presents case-studies integrati…
The contributors to this volume explore a number of regions in which internal violence and conflict stubbornly persist, and why domestic and international efforts to re-establish order, human secur…
Recent wars in West Africa have introduced a phenomenon that is not popular in the history and mythology of West Africa. The voices of women, stereo-typically known to be romantic, effective, and s…
Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and maim, wound and threaten millions of adults and children, whether combatants and civilians in war zones or gangs and communities in degraded …
This paper looks at the issues surrounding building peace in Sierra Leone. It particularly focuses on addressing some key success stories through documenting the work of peace monitors and the Bo P…
This briefing note contributes to the knowledge on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security as a way of addressing women’s priorities in peacebuilding. The document discus…
The pact, signed by eleven countries of the Great Lakes Region, aims at providing a legal framework governing relations between its signatories, through additional protocols and programmes of actio…
"An Isis-WICCE research report in collaboration with Central Equatorial State, Juba and Totto Chan Trauma Centre."
The Journal of Peacebuilding and Development is a triannual journal that provides a forum for sharing critical thinking and constructive action on issues at the intersections of conflict, developme…