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Armed Conflict Database (ADC)

 News - February 2006

The ACD newsletter is emailed each quarter to subscribers to the IISS Armed Conflict Database. This month it focuses on violence and instability in Afghanistan in the run-up to parliamentary elections; Zimbabwe’s forced displacement policy and its repercussions; and the brewing political crisis in Bolivia. For further information about the content of the Armed Conflict Database, contact ucko [at] iiss [dot] org. - queries regarding subscription to the Armed Conflict Database, these should be addressed to publisher, Taylor& Francis, at referenceonline [at] tandf [dot] co [dot] uk.

Call for Papers: Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments

 News - June 2008

Call for Papers: Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments

The Program on States and Security is pleased to announce a two-day workshop on Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments, to be held in New York, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on December 4 and 5, 2008.

CfP for a Panel on 'Fresh Perspectives on Statebuilding'

 News - May 2007

International interventions and statebuilding projects are basically top-down endeavours - and thus is the way they have been conceptualised by the bulk of mainstream literature. Even works on the so-called civil society which claim to look at the phenomenon of statebuilding from a bottom-up perspective are limited in the way that they are based on a predominantly Western image of what a an organised society as opposed to a state is.

CfP for the 'Post-Conflict Project', led by the Woodrow Wilson International Center

 News - September 2008

Introduction: In the twenty years that have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of a bipolar geopolitical order, the world has experienced no fewer than 116 violent conflicts.