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The exploitation of natural resources has become an essential financial lifeline for non-state armed groups in current conflicts. In Colombia, paramilitary forces, left-wing guerrilla groups and criminal organisations have increasingly combined illegal activities around drug tra…

This dissertation explores the use of an index based contingent claims mechanism against earthquake risk in Indonesia. It focuses on time critical financing needs of international humanitarian relief organizations, and onefforts to improve the resiliency of geographically constr…

This dissertation combines ethnographic, interview, and documentary data gathered in Ethiopia to analyze famine early warning systems--large-scale information systems bringing together climate, food production, market, and public health data, which have become a major focus in i…