This paper provides a comparative analysis of regional and country level Refugee Response Plans for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey between 2015-2018 to analyse the extent to which the they address the key ...

Affordable access to electricity has long been found to be a key lever for social and economic development. Over 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still lacked such in 2016. Given the pertaining issues in grid ...

Foreign partisan election intervention is a persistent tactic that may become increasingly prevalent as technological advancements and the growth of social media facilitate new low-cost, yet effective mechanisms for ...

To address the high rates of adolescent pregnancy and reduce its difficult consequences on young mothers and their children, the Costa Rican government (with the support of IDB) implemented in 2013 the Salud Mesoamerica ...

Since 2015, seven large metal structures, termed ‘anti-monuments’ (antimonumentos), have been placed by various civil society actors in Mexico City. Each commemorates a distinct grievance linked to claims of state culpability ...

The micro-level determinants of fighting is a growing research topic. However, little research has been done on the reasons why people take part in communal violence, which I define as violence between non-state groups ...

Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems are a popular form of urban transportation that can reduce congestion, are cost-efficient, can mitigate climate change via its high capacity busloads, and increase road efficiency (King, ...

Since the Peace of Westphalia, states have been the primary actors in the international arena, having been granted legitimacy by internal and external sovereignty. In the contemporary age, however, state's sovereignty has ...

Since 2014, the European continent has suffered a great number of terrorist attacks carried out by ISIL, jihadist movements and Islamic lone wolves. The rise of Islamic terrorism has affected various levels of society, ...