Child Marriage and Guardianship in Tanzania: Robbing Girls of their Childhood and Infantilizing Women

by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication

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The Relationship Between Vietnamese Youths’ Access to Health Information and Positive Social Capital with Their Level of HIV Knowledge: Results from a National Survey

by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication

This paper examines how Vietnamese adolescents’ access to health information, especially concerning HIV, and their level of social capital might predict their differential levels of HIV knowledge. It uses data from the 2003 Vietnam Survey Assessment of Vietnamese...

Conflict Prevention and Human Security: Issues and Challenges

by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication

The debate over the relevance of preventive diplomacy is rich and entertaining. This paper will not address the debate directly except to argue here that it often degenerates into a false choice. One need not reject the entire corpus of neo‐realist thinking about the...

Calm Between the Storms? Patterns of Political Violence in Somalia, 1950-1980

by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication

This article explores the uses of organized violence in Somali politics from the late colonial period up to 1980, an era that – on the surface, at least – appears relatively free of political violence compared to both previous and ensuing decades. After considering...

The Role of Information in Uganda’s Reduction of HIV/AIDS Prevalence: Individual Perceptions of HIV/AIDS Information

by Kiel Downey | Mar 13, 2017 | Publication

The prevalence of AIDS in Uganda has decreased from 18.5 percent in 1995 to less than 6 percent in 2003. A multisectoral strategy to disseminate HIV/AIDS information throughout society has been credited, in part, for this success. This paper presents the results of...