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28 August 2017

State-building and the politics of scale in Solomon Islands

by Tobias Haque

RAMSI military welcomed on arrival, 2003 (Gary Ramage/Australian Defence/DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

16 June 2017

RAMSI chapter ends in Australia’s Pacific story

by James Batley

An artist prepares a patriotic mural by the road between Asmara and Keren, Eritrea (David Stanley/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

31 May 2017

A new paradigm for understanding Africa’s crisis

by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis

Libya Celebrates "Tripolitanian Republic" Declared against Colonial Rule (Flickr/UN Photo/Iason Foounten CC BY NC ND 2.0)

24 May 2017

Africa’s democratic failure

by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis

Fragile States Index 2016 (http://fsi.fundforpeace.org/rankings-2016)

19 April 2017

Why does state fragility matter, and what can we do about it?

by Nematullah Bizhan

Bypass road sign (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

1 November 2016

Why donors bypass recipient states, and why they shouldn’t

by Nematullah Bizhan

4 May 2015

New Deal principles in divided societies: what can we learn from the case of Myanmar? (Part 2)

by Mathilde Tréguier

30 April 2015

New Deal principles in divided societies: what can we learn from the case of Myanmar? (Part 1)

by Mathilde Tréguier

18 March 2015

See no religion, hear no religion, speak no religion

by Denis Dragovic

20 June 2014

Global Peace on the decline in 2014

by Camilla Schippa

1 May 2013

Final Report of the Solomon Islands Truth & Reconciliation Commission unofficially released

by Tess Newton Cain

28 March 2013

March blog digest: Countdown to the May budget | Fear and violence

by Stephen Howes

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