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March 01, 2014

Peace Enforcement and Protection of Civilians in the DRC

On November 20th 2012, fighters from the M23 rebel movement streamed past UN peacekeepers into the city of Goma, the provincial capital of the DRC’s North Kivu province. Fighters looted homes, killed suspected rivals, committed unknown numbers of sexual assaults, injured hundreds of civilians and ca...

Deborah Avant

Lindsay Heger

February 12, 2014

The New Power Politics: Networks and Transnational Security Governance

The workshop series “The New Power Politics: Networks, Governance, and Global Security” examined how various networks of state and non-state actors work to address the governance of security. Participants included internationally recognized scholars who research a wide range of contemporary security...

Fred Krawchuk

November 26, 2013

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: How Government, Business, and Non-Governmental Leaders Transform Complex Challenges into New Possibilities

A hallmark of the contemporary international system is the complexity of problems facing actors today. Yet creative facilitators can build bridges between a wide array of actors to address these most difficult challenges. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is a complex process often necessarily involvi...

One Earth Future

October 07, 2013

Improving Global Accountability: The ICC and Nonviolent Crimes Against Humanity

DB Krupp

October 07, 2013

How to distinguish altruism from spite (and why we should bother)

Social behavior is often described as altruistic, spiteful, selfish, or mutually beneficial. These terms are appealing, but it has not always been clear how they are defined and what purpose they serve.

Jon Huggins

Liza Kane-Hartnett

October 05, 2013

Somali Piracy - Are we at the End Game?

Recognizing the decrease in pirate attacks, this paper evaluates the current status of counter-piracy initiatives and attempts to answer the question, have we reached the End Game?

Eamon Aloyo

October 02, 2013

Democratising Transitional Justice: Transitional Trade-offs and Constituting the Demos

Aloyo argues that transitional justice should be democratized so that victims and potential victims constitute the transitional justice demos. To realize this goal he proposes a method by which people can be enfranchised to make such choices.

Conor Seyle

Thomas G. Weiss

Kelsey Coolidge

August 17, 2013

The Rise of Non-State Actors in Global Governance: Opportunities and Limitations

The success of non-state actors does not mean that intergovernmental organizations have no role — quite the contrary. The diversity of actors has created opportunities for new partnerships to form and older ones to be strengthened, but states and their intergovernmental organizations remain an essen...

Matt Walje

July 01, 2013

Evolution of Piracy: Historical Piracy

Piracy has plagued the seas for at least 40 centuries and has been a thorn in the side of nearly every sea-going civilization.

Danielle A. Zach

Jens Vestergaard Madsen

May 26, 2013

Burden Sharing Multi-level Governance: A Study of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

The world confronts many threats with transnational dimensions that transcend the capacity of states to address.

David Cortright

Kristen Wall

April 26, 2013

Governance, Democracy and Peace: How State Capacity and Regime Type Influence the Prospects for War and Peace

This white paper offers a synthetic review of empirical evidence on the elements of state governance that affect interstate and intrastate armed conflict. In the first part of the paper we examine state capacity and institutional quality.

Jon Bellish

April 09, 2013

Economic Cost of Somali Piracy 2012

Oceans Beyond Piracy is pleased to present its third annual assessment of the Economic Cost of Somali Piracy 2012 (ECoP 2012).

Jens Vestergaard Madsen

Liza Kane-Hartnett

April 04, 2013

Towards a Regional Solution to Somali Piracy: Challenges and Opportunities

Piracy has topped the international agenda since 2008, when Somali piracy resurfaced as a major threat to global shipping, humanitarian aid delivery, and the well-being of seafarers.

Eamon Aloyo

Yvonne M. Dutton

Lindsay Heger

March 08, 2013

Does the International Criminal Court Deter Torture?

Despite widespread commitment to the international human rights regime, human rights abuses persist and go unpunished. One prominent explanation for this phenomenon is that states are insincerely committing to treaties they perceive as having weak enforcement mechanisms. Only recently, however, stat...

January 05, 2013

Somalia Banking: Transfers, Challenges and Opportunities

This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of the banking segment in Somalia. It reviews current systems for financial transfers and discusses the possibility of the introduction of a two-tier banking system.

Danielle Jung

Wendy H. Wong

Lindsay Heger

November 15, 2012

Organizing for Resistance: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence

How does the way in which a group organizes change the lethality of the group’s attacks?

October 05, 2012

Wind Energy in Somalia

October 05, 2012

A Market Analysis for Honey Production in Somalia

This market analysis identifies factors influencing the profitability of the honey industry in Somalia, using a framework for analysis based on Michael Porter’s “five forces model” with the introduction of a sixth set of forces comprising complements that support the market segment.