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Post-conflict reconstruction: a community-led approach

Researchers are questioning whether overarching Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes have been at the expense of community initiatives that could aid the reintegration process. This paper seeks to explore the connections between community security and DDR processes and seeks to determine how local projects can be better integrated.

Post-conflict reconstruction: a community-led approach

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Postwar reconstruction: enhancing people-led processes: ( F. Galtung;M. Tisne / Tiri , 2009); In nations emerging from war, the immediate postwar period rarely lives up to the hopes and expectations of the country’s citizens or the international community. An upsurge in corruption and...
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Assessing national security concerns in a global context: ( P. Ashdown;G. Robertson;I. Kearns / Institute for Public Policy Research , 2008); The national and international security environment has changed dramatically over the last two decades more so since the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 bombings. To add to that are the effects of gl...
Considering national security strategies: ( Institute for Public Policy Research , 2009); This report presents a set of observations about the state of the world's changing security. It points to how globalization and power diffusion have altered the world order by diluting the control of ...
Water shortages for Palestinians result from discriminatory policies and practices: ( Amnesty International , 2009); Lack of access to adequate, safe and clean water has been a longstanding problem for the Palestinian population of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Though exacerbated in recent years by ...
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What is the impact of armed violence on poverty and development?: ( M. Turner;J. Ginifer;L. Cliffe / United Nations Development Programme , 2005); This paper examines the extent to which armed violence and small arms and light weapons possession and usage, impoverishes individuals, groups, societies and states. The paper offers suggestions on...