January 2011

Successful interventions in internal conflicts: A framework

This article discusses factors contributing to successful third-party interventions in internal conflicts, dominating the ‘post-cold war’ era as the principal sources of current conflicts. It suggests that peacekeeping is a necessary strategy when violence breaks out between the parties, since without reducing physical violence, it is impossible to manage and resolve the conflict. Yet once peacekeeping...

Author(s): Muzaffer Ercan Yilmaz

January 2011

The impact of customary laws on inheritance: A case study of widows in Urban Uganda

This study explores the ways in which widows in Kampala, Uganda are deprived of homeownership upon the death of their husbands. Homeownership through inheritance usually means that widows have the authority to register the home in their names and have the power to use and sell the home upon the death of their husbands. This study, which is based on life story interviews with widows in the middle-income areas of Kampala,...

Author(s): Florence Akiiki Asiimwe and Owen Crankshaw