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'Killing a mosquito with a hammer': Al-Shabaab violence and state security responses in Kenya

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Introduction: security in the vernacular and peacebuilding at the margins; rethinking violence reduction

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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.