Globally, more than 5 million people die annually from lack of access to critical treatments for
kidney disease—by 2040, chronic kidney disease is projected to be the fifth leading cause of …

This review highlights the importance of air quality in the African urban development
process. We address connections between air pollution and (a) rapid urbanization,(b) social …

Research findings on the relationship between climate and conflict are diverse and
contested. Here we assess the current understanding of the relationship between climate …

This article reports on trends in organized violence and peace agreements collected by the
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). The number of fatalities in organized violence …

INTRODUCTION More than one-fourth of the world's population lives in conditions of
insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South …

There is an emerging consensus that women's participation in peace negotiations
contributes to the quality and durability of peace after civil war. However, to date, this …

Scholars have spent decades investigating various sources of rebellion, from societal and
institutional explanations to individual motivations to take up arms against one's …

This article presents ViEWS–a political violence early-warning system that seeks to be
maximally transparent, publicly available, and have uniform coverage, and sketches the …

In this article, we present the most up-to-date, fine-grained, global dataset on external
support in armed conflicts: the UCDP External Support Dataset (ESD). The dataset …

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal
population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has …