The article demonstrates that even if an elite-level pact is in place, a lack of connections between national-level elites and local conflict parties can prevent peace from trickling down from the national level to the local level.

It argues that extreme state weakness and a highly fragmented patronage-based system have prevented national-level peacemaking efforts from having a positive impact on local peacemaking efforts in the Central African Republic.

This article studies national-level and local peacemaking efforts in the Central African Republic and contributes to the literature on conflict resolution. Many studies have focused on the local peace process, yet the national-level context in which these take place is neglected.

Just published Allard Duursma @AllardDuursma State weakness, a fragmented patronage-based system, and protracted local conflict in the Central African Republic @OUPPolitics @OxfordJournals https://t.co/RQFY4wwp01

The authors argue that efforts intended to combat the spread of misinformation need to move beyond the Western-centred conception of what constitutes media and take different local modalities of media access and fact-checking into account.

This paper sets out how social, traditional, and pavement media form a complex and deeply gendered and socio-economically stratified media ecosystem and investigates its implications for how citizens differentially encounter, process, and respond to misinformation.

Drawing on research in northern Ghana, this paper argues that the everyday communication of current affairs through discussions in marketplaces, places of worship, bars, and the like is a key link in a broader media ecosystem.

Just published. Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana by @EllieGadjanova @GabrielleLynch6 Ghadafi Saibu @OUPPolitics @OxfordJournals https://t.co/xRDpCn6ulm

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This suggests that informal property rights documents can be a powerful tool in a citizen’s arsenal. Further, these findings illustrate a process of adaptation and change within customary land institutions.

Evidence from 121 interviews with chiefs, bureaucrats, and smallholder farmers and a survey of over 5,500 citizens shows that, despite their flaws, chiefs’ titles do increase citizens’ perceptions of tenure security.

However, chiefs’ titles are extra-legal: they are enforced by the same traditional leaders who govern unwritten customary rights, raising doubt about whether written land rights can strengthen citizens’ land claims without changing the existing power structures.

It argues that entrepreneurial chiefs have created written land rights for citizens on customary land in the form of letters, signed maps, and certificates. These documents are an alternative to state land titling that allows chiefs to maintain their control over land.

Just published: 'The power of the pen: Informal property rights documents in Zambia' Lauren Honig @BostonCollege https://t.co/jyscHXN8c7 This article explores the expansion of informal property rights documents through the case of chiefs’ titles in Zambia.

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Great thread from @MCollord on her paper just published.

Great thread from @MCollord on her paper just published.

Exploring elite power struggles the paper demonstrates that these vary with changes in the extent of private wealth accumulation and the expansion of rival patron–client factions.