International Network for Economics and Conflict

This brief from the International Peace Institute summarizes a recent workshop on forced displacement and natural disasters co-hosted by Norway and Switzerland in Vienna on September 5, 2012.

This Special Report from the U.S. Institute of Peace explains the impact that natural disasters have on peace and stability across the globe.

In this report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti is discussed.

In this article from The Financial, a new toolkit from the World Bank to ensure the health, food and nutritional security of the most vulnerable in the Latin American & Caribbean Region (LAC) is explained.

This paper from the World Bank and the government of Mexico presents strategies for mitigating the risk of natural disasters in the world economy.

Assuming that capital productivity is higher in areas at risk from natural hazards (such as coastal zones or flood plains), this paper shows that rapid development in these areas -- and the resulting increase in disaster losses -- may be the consequence of a rational and well-informed trade-off between lower disaster losses and higher productivity.

This paper provides, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues.