List of research questions
A. What are the defining features of contemporary conflicts?
B. In what ways might conflict, security and development be linked? What kinds of
interventions have such linkages given rise to?
C. Are ethnically divided communities more prone to violence?
D. What role do economic factors play in civil wars?
E. Is there a link between environmental degradation and violent conflict?
F. What is the relationship between gender and violent conflict? How can security and
development interventions best take such a relationship into account?
G. In what ways are civil wars transnational?
H. Does conflict prevention demand democratization?
I. Are the principles of traditional peacekeeping still relevant today?
J. Should we think of NGOs as sovereign actors in development and security interventions?
Should humanitarian interventions be neutral?
K. Should the security sector be strengthened in fragile states?
L. Does the involvement of private military and security companies enhance security and
development during and after a conflict?
M. Can there be peacebuilding without reconciliation? Can peace be imposed from the
outside?
