Insecurity and conflict prevention
- Does Somalia finally have an opportunity for peace?
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Has the international community washed its hands of Somalia? There has been no effective foreign engagement since the humiliation of US troops in the early nineties, leaving the people to contend with conflict, bloody partition and humanitarian disaster. However, as this paper details, the international community now has an opportunity to set Somalia on the road to peace - by constructively supporting the Somali Transitional Federal Government's recent offer of power-sharing with the opposing Islamic Courts Union.
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- Insecurity and risk assessment of the situation in Afghanistan
- ( H. Kjaernet;S. Torjesen / Norwegian Institute for International Affairs , 2008)
- This report examines Afghanistan’s regional challenges. It finds that domestic instability in Pakistan, strains in Pakistan–Afghanistan relations and insecurities associated with the US&nd...
- Does Somalia finally have an opportunity for peace?
- ( J. Prendergast / ENOUGH , 2008)
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Has the international community washed its hands of Somalia? There has been no effective foreign engagement since the humiliation of US troops in the early nineties, leaving the people to contend w...
- Human security-oriented analysis needs to focus on armed violence
- ( I.S. Carvalho;R.M.C Corrêa / Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa , 2007)
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The paper shows that human security is more than a normative framework and must be reformulated into an operational and analytical tool. It begins by looking at the concept of human security, consi...
- Training on the law of armed conflict
- ( L. R. Blank;G.P. Noone / United States Institute of Peace , 2008)
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Recent abuses committed by military personnel in war zones and violent conflicts the world over reemphasise the central importance of the law of armed conflict, the law of war for the protection of...
Evaluating conflict prevention and peacebuilding
- ( Development Assistance Committee, OECD , 2008)
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As growing shares of aid resources, time and energy are being devoted to conflict prevention and peacebuilding projects, programmes, and policy strategies, more evidence demonstrating the effective...
- How can effective resource governance prevent conflict?
- ( V. Franke;A. Hampel-Milagrosa;J. Schure / Bonn International Center for Conversion , 2007)
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This paper tests the impact of resource governance on the resource-conflict dynamic. It examines the impact of resource type, abundance and dependence on risk and duration of violent conflict, whil...
Climate change, instability and the responsibility to protect
- ( C. Abbott / Oxford Research Group, UK , 2008)
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Climate change has the potential to cause radical changes in lifestyle and mass migration as people seek out ever-diminishing resources. The tensions that will accompany such shifts could...
- Will climate change lead to violent conflict?
- ( D. Smith;J. ViVekananDa / SIDA Studies , 2008)
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Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Chang...
- Can Zones of Peace mitigate violent conflict?
- ( L. E. Hancock;P. Iyer / Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution , 2004)
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One of the most important methods of conflict mitigation is through ‘institutionalizing conflict’ i.e. allowing conflict to continue within rules. A concrete example of this is through ...
How to improve the lives of pastoralists in Karamoja
- ( E. Stites;D. Akabwai;D. Mazurana / Feinstein International Center, USA , 2007)
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This paper details the underlying causes and effects of insecurity on civilians in the north-eastern Ugandan region of Karamajoa. Home to just under a million people, the region is the poorest in U...
