The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Sierra Leone
Scholarly Publications
Participatory risk network analysis: A tool for disaster reduction practitioners
March 2017
Disaster risk is the product of a complex set of networked processes. Development professionals often use participatory tools to help understand disasters.
Explaining Rape during Civil War: Cross-National Evidence (1980-2009)
August 2013
Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do?
The Geography of Insurgent Organization and its Consequences for Civil Wars: Evidence from Liberia and Sierra Leone
January 2008
This article investigates the determinants of armed group organization and the downstream effects of organization on civil wars.
News
CISAC tackles public health & policy questions on Ebola
October 2014
We ask CISAC biosecurity experts David Relman and Megan Palmer to answer questions about the public health and policy implications of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Stanford Global Development and Poverty initiative awards $4.6 million for research aimed at alleviating poverty
June 2014
Fourteen Stanford researchers addressing global poverty through a range of academic disciplines are receiving the money from the university-wide Global Development and Poverty initiative.
Poorly Governed Resource-Dependent States: Policy Options for the New Administration
July 2013
Many resource dependent states have to varying degrees, failed to provide for the welfare of their own populations, could threaten global energy markets, and could pose security risks for the...
Events
Information, Ethnic Voting and Accountability: Evidence from Sierra Leone
April 23, 2013
It is often lamented that weak accountability and poor governance impede economic development in Africa.
CISAC-SCICN Special Seminar: Investigating Post-Conflict Violence at the Micro-Level: Accounting for Patterns among Victims of Past Atrocities in Liberia
January 31, 2013
Anupma Kulkarni is currently a Fellow of the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN) and Co-director of the West Africa Transitional Justice (WATJ) Project, a cross...
2010 Payne Lecture Series: Globalization of Terror
March 5, 2010
Steve Coll is president of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.