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Linking New and Protracted Conflicts to SDG16: Patterns and Trends

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Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Civil; Enduring; Internal; Intractable; Long; Rivalry

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The so-called new violent conflicts are conflicts that are characterized for having mostly internal causes and involving disputes among a variety of actors, including the state. They are also usually associated to fragile political, social, and economic structures of governance and where state’s internal legitimacy, monopoly of the use of force and control of the territory is highly contested, often through violence. This type of new violent conflicts is also marked by an important role played by identity issues and clashes, as well as by economic factors which contribute to their perpetuation.

Protracted violent conflicts are conflicts that are characterized and distinguished for being particularly long, intractable, and mutable throughout time, as well as for challenging traditional problem-solving approaches due to their high levels of complexity and the multidimensional nature of their causes. Given this...

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    Daniela Nascimento

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Paula Lopes

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Nascimento, D. (2021). Linking New and Protracted Conflicts to SDG16: Patterns and Trends. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71066-2_50-1

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