Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial

Aber, Lawrence J. et al (2016) ‘Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial’ Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 10.3: 507-529.

Promoting children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries: Testing change process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)

Aber, Lawrence J. et al (2017) ‘Promoting children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries: Testing change process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’, Development and Psychopathology 29.1: 53-67.

Group photograph of displaced people affected by flooding in Beletweyne, Somalia.
Security on the move: everyday security of IDPs in rapidly growing Somali cities

Principal Investigator: Jutta Bakonyi. Lead Organisation: Durham University

Co-investigators: Ali Ali; Peter Chonka; Nimo Ali; Kirsti Stuvoey

Large development investment and local peacebuilding in rural Africa: building and sustaining peace at the margins
Researchers are examining how and why local peace-building efforts succeed in minimising violence in contexts where there are large new investments, focusing on the remote rural areas of Kenya and Sierra Leone, and its impacts on the poor in marginal rural areas.
Schoolgirls in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Promoting children's learning outcomes in conflict-affected countries: generating, communicating, and incorporating evidence for impact
Over 75 million children around the world are currently out of school, and over half of them live in conflict-affected countries (CACs). The evidence from this project suggests as an international community, we are currently failing in our efforts due to the "stunning lack of evidence" as to what works to promote children's learning in the context of conflict and crisis.
Photograph of a woman in Hargeisa, Somaliland
Political Settlement in Somaliland: a gendered perspective
Recent research recognises the importance of political settlements in determining the equitability of development and societal stability. This research on political settlements analyses the different roles that women and men play in determining a given settlement.
Economic Recovery in Post-Conflict Cities: the Role of the Urban Informal Economy
The role of the urban informal economy in poverty-reduction and peace-building in five post-conflict cities with different experiences: institutional struggles for state control, economic conflict over control of resources, social/political control and emergent governance.

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