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Armed violence and conflict in fragile settings

Many of the states considered to be fragile are affected by armed conflict and violence. NOREF therefore devotes particular attention to the relationship between state fragility and conflict, approaches to peacebuilding in fragile states and the relationship between peace- and statebuilding.

This includes work on transnational phenomena that contribute to conflict and state fragility; on youth and armed violence; and on economic factors that sustain armed violence and undermine peacebuilding in fragile contexts.

Fragile states and peacebuilding in the new global context: This project examines the concept of state fragility and current approaches to peace- and statebuilding in fragile settings. It focuses in particular...
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What makes countries vulnerable to transnational organised crime?: Ivan Briscoe 28 September 2011
Countries emerging from conflict or other major crises face numerous difficult challenges on the road to state-building. One of the most harmful is the rise of violent... more
State fragility, organised crime and peacebuilding: towards a more strategic approach: James Cockayne 15 September 2011
Fragile states, with their ready pools of unemployed labour, populations inured to violence and weakened state capacity, offer sites of competitive advantage for milit... more
National and international dimensions of criminal violence in Latin America: Benedicte Bull 27 April 2011
Latin America has witnessed a surge in criminal violence during the past decade. In this paper, Benedicte Bull summarises the findings of a 2010 seminar on the interna... more
Organised crime, illicit drugs and state vulnerability: Juan Gabriel Tokatlián 25 April 2011
The growing power of criminal networks over the international drug economy exposes the failure of the prohibitionist approach to illicit narcotics. But what is the alt... more
Youth, armed violence and job creation: Oliver Walton 13 October 2010
This paper examines the success of youth job-creation programmes in reducing armed violence and reveals that, unless they form part of an integrated violence reduction... more
Climate Change, Conflict and Fragility: Janani Vivekananda , Dan Smith 4 October 2009
Fuelling fears that climate change will generate threats like terrorism and mass immigration will lead to oversimplified and inaccurate perceptions of the security iss... more