State Repression as an Obstruction to Conflict Monitoring
Governments may purposely repress or limit the information available to NGOs, media outlets and academics…
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Violence against Civilians and Al Shabaab: Tactics of Internal Security and Distabilisation
Conflict event levels and reported fatalities fell slightly in Somalia in January. While violence overall…
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Egypt: Developments in Political Violence Patterns Through a Comparative Analysis of the January 25th Protest Anniversaries
January saw heightened conflict activity in Egypt; a pattern that is evident in both 2013…
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Counter-revolution, Autocracy, and Stability in Egypt in 2014
The most significant trend witnessed throughout 2014 in Egypt was the dramatic decline of riot…
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Service-delivery demonstrations, political voice and elections in South Africa
South Africa was the seventh most active country in the ACLED dataset in 2014, in…
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A Review of Libya in 2014
Libya was the fourth most active and the sixth most violent country in the ACLED…
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State Policy, Political Opportunity and Phases of Contentious Political Activity in Egypt
A cursory glance at Egypt’s conflict landscape from the beginning of the revolutionary uprising would…
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Tensions among soldiers in Ivory Coast
Contrary to the recent tensions in neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast has experienced…
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Terrorism: A review of differences in definition
The existence of multiple, contrasting and even contradictory definitions and conceptualisations of terrorism in policy,…
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