Links for the day

  1. Fascinating series of articles on peace, police, and politics in Mogadishu.
  2. How the British Empire is like contemporary DRC: a massive territory ruled by a tiny coterie of administrators who project power very unevenly across the areas they claim to rule
  3. Two insightful posts by Laura Seay on why the US should keep aiding countries which use child soldiers and why everything you know about sexual violence in wartime is wrong.
  4. Data on conflict: the Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataset, Peacebuilding Data, and the Small Arms Survey.