Conflict and economy

Economic resources and armed conflict are related. International organisations consider growth and jobs a way to limit recruitment to radicalized and armed groups, and trade as a means to peaceful co-existence. But what is actually going on? Who controls trade, transport and production in conflict areas? Finally, how do economic sanctions affect political and armed conflicts?

Research and activites

DIIS Working Paper

2022

The Great Green Wall

An overview and lessons learnt
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Journal Article

2022

Confronting Coercion

The possibility for collective action against China’s economic coercion seems more likely than ever.
Book

2022

Roadblock Politics

New book on how control over trade routes drives conflict and state formation in Central Africa
Feature Article

2021

Checkpoint ‘taxes’ make South Sudan one of the most expensive places to move goods

When South Sudan became independent 10 years ago, oil revenues were supposed to fuel the economy of the world’s newest country. But shortly after, civil war resumed, oil prices plummeted, and the South Sudanese pound lost value.
Report

2021

Checkpoint economy

The political economy of checkpoints in South Sudan, ten years after independence
Article

2021

China and the United States need each other in Africa

The fight against covid-19, climate change, and conflict demands a team effort
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

The myths and realities of China's economic coercion

Understanding Beijing’s evolving statecraft
Interview

12 November 2021

China’s global challenges

Al Jazeera (Arabic) interviewed DIIS senior researcher Luke Patey about his new book, "How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions", and China’s relations across the world
Web Article

2021

What’s at stake for China in Sudan?

Sudan is no longer a large oil producer, but its instability impacts China’s reputation
Journal Article

2021

Paths of authority, roads of resistance

Ambiguous rural infrastructure and slippery stabilization in eastern DR Congo
Photo/illustration by Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Global rivalry in the Red Sea

A ‘Geopolitical’ European Union should encourage cooperation in the Red Sea region
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Risks of technology use in humanitarian settings: Avoiding harm, delivering impact

The use of emerging technology in humanitarian settings carries significant risks. The complexity of these risks entails a need to understand and imagine risks beyond those commonly associated with a particular technology, field, or implementing organization.
Journal Article

2021

How aid and trade finance conflict

The world needs new rules for global supply chains.
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Webinar

Book-launch: Festschrift for Mark Juergensmeyer

This webinar launches the publication “Religion, Conflict and Global Society – A Festschrift Celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer” edited by Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Isak Svensson. Some of the distinguished contributors and Mark Juergensmeyer will address the themes that the book takes up, such as conceptual debates on secularism, cosmic war, and the globalization of Global Studies.
Web Article

2021

Opposition to the Kuannersuit project offers an opportunity for the EU and United States to pursue closer cooperation with Greenland

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Blogpost

6 May 2021

A Year After the Floods In Qardho

What Has Been The Response And How Is The Community Coping?
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Web Article

2021

COVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifeline

Remittances were projected to crash at the start of the pandemic, but in Somaliland COVID-19 created an opportunity for digital disruption instead
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Recognising diaspora humanitarianism

What we know and what we need to know more about
Report

2021

Herding through insecurity

New report on the militarization of pastoralism in the Central African Republic
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Article

2021

To beat China on tech, learn from it 

The United States needs more than support of traditional allies to outpace China on 5G and other new technologies
DIIS Working Paper

2021

The becoming of coal mining and the security around it

the case of Colombia
Journal Article

2020

Governing African oil and gas

Boom-era political and institutional innovation
Book Chapter

2020

Why is Customary Law so strong?

Political recognition and justice practices in the Naga Self-Administered Zone
Webinar

Everyday Justice in Myanmar – new book

Online via Zoom

Webinar II: Discussion with some of the book’s contributors
Long Read

22 September 2020

Six months of anxiety and boredom: How poor Brazilians cope with life under quarantine

Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, neither lives nor the economy have been saved. 38-year old Rafaela used to sell umbrellas on rainy days. Now the streets are empty. The emergency aid she receives will soon stop and she - like many other Brazilians - are left to wonder: When will this crisis end?

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Book Chapter

2020

Twilight Institutions

Land-buying Companies & their Long-term Implications in Laikipia, Kenya

Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa & Ian Scoones

Land, Investment & Politics. Rochester, NY: James Currey Ltd

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DIIS Working Paper

2020

The emerging global framework for the governance of large-scale land-based investment

A literature review

Nanna Lynggaard & Helle Munk Ravnborg

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DIIS Working Paper

2019

The global checkpoint economy

Supply chains as a new frontline in conflict financing?

Peer Schouten

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DIIS Working Paper

2019

Fusing formal and informal trading

Emerging practices in the livestock value chains between Kenya and Somalia

Philemon Ng'asike

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Journal Article

2019

Politics of Circulation

The makings of the Berbera corridor in Somali East Africa

Finn Stepputat & Tobias Hagmann

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 37

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Book

2019

Special issue: States of circulation

The co-production of logistical and political orders

Peer Schouten, Finn Stepputat & Jan Bachmann

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Working papers etc.

2019

Berbera Port

Geopolitics and Statemaking in Somaliland

Warsame Ahmed & Finn Stepputat

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Working papers etc.

2019

The political economy of diaspora remittances in the Ethiopian Somali region

Kassahun Berhanu

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DIIS Working Paper

2019

From trust to oligopoly

Institutional change in livestock trade in Somaliland after 1991

Ahmed Musa

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Journal Article

2019

Piracy studies coming of age

a window on the making of maritime intervention actors

Jessica Larsen

International Affairs, 95

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DIIS Working Paper

2019

Shoats and smart phones

Cross-border trading in the Ethio-Somaliland corridor

Asnake Kefale

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Report

2019

Mapping artisanal mining areas and mineral supply chains in eastern DR Congo

Impact of armed interference & responsible sourcing

Peer Schouten, Ken Matthysen & Steven Spittaels

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Journal Article

2019

Broadening ‘business’, widening ‘peace’

a new research agenda on business and peace-building

Peer Schouten & Jason Miklian

Conflict, Security and Development , 19

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Journal Article

2019

Roadblock politics in Central Africa

Peer Schouten

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 37

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DIIS Report

2019

Breaking the cycle

Iraq following the military defeat of Islamic State

Maria-Louise Clausen

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Journal Article

2019

Introduction: China's New Roles and Behaviour in Conflict-Affected Regions

Reconsidering Non-Interference and Non-Intervention

Miwa Hirono, Yang Jiang & Marc Lanteigne

The China Quarterly

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Working papers etc.

2018

Armed Conflicts and the Erosion of the State

Helle Malmvig, Virginie Collombier, Maria-Louise Clausen, Hiba Hassan & Jan Pet Khorto

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DIIS Report

2018

China's Engagement in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Xinjiang

Will China's Root Cause Model provide regional stability and security?

Lars Erslev Andersen & Yang Jiang

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Book Chapter

2018

Chinese Wisdom

New Norms for Development and Global Governance

Yang Jiang

China's 19th Party Congress . Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company

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Working papers etc.

2018

‘Elders among traders’

Market committees and everyday state formation in Mogadishu

Faduma Abukar Mursal

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Report

2018

Central African Republic

A Conflict Mapping

Peer Schouten & Fiona Southward

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Book Chapter

2018

Can Federalism Save the Yemeni State?

Maria-Louise Clausen

Yemen and the Search for Stability. United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris
Working papers etc.

2018

Entrust we must

The role of 'trust' in Somali economic life

Neil Carrier & Hannah Elliott

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Journal Article

2018

Competing for Control over the State

The Case of Yemen

Maria-Louise Clausen

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 29

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Journal Article

2018

Concrete approaches to peace

infrastructure as peacebuilding

Peer Schouten & Jan Bachmann

International Affairs

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DIIS Policy Brief

2006

Post-conflict security sector reform and the challenge of ownership

the case of Liberia

Louise Riis Andersen

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Livestreaming

China after COVID-19 and a changing world order

This conference gathers researchers and postgraduate students in Denmark to share their China-related expertise, debate important issues, and discuss the implications for Denmark and beyond

Experts

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Jessica Larsen

Foreign policy and diplomacy

Senior Researcher

+45 9390 6099

jela@diis.dk
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Trine Rosengren Pejstrup

Peace and violence

Research Assistant

+45 5275 6064

trpe@diis.dk