Poverty alleviation and women refugees in the Middle East: empowerment through grassroots micro-entrepreneurship?
Contemporary political volatility within the Middle East region has led to far reaching socio-economic upheaval and strife with a devastating impact generating mass displacement of Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian refugees to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey (UNCHR, 2014). In their host nations, these displaced communities seek to reconstruct their lives in a context of loss, poverty, violence and devastation (Kuttab, 2008; Chatty, 2010).
Street protests in Dili during the mid-2006 conflict in Timor-Leste.
Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities, and poverty reduction in the developing world
The project aims to re-think conventional assumptions and offer new insights into the determinants of urban violence, including in particular identifying context-specific circumstances under which everyday urban conflict becomes violent.
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