Peacebuilding
- Developing, monitoring and implementing post-conflict programmes
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Many post-conflict states are exceedingly fragile. As such international actors need to ensure that proposed programmes and projects do not excaberate an already tense environment. This guidebook seeks to provide information for development actors on how to develop, implement and monitor conflict-sensitive programmes.
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Improving security and justice through security sector reform
- ( N. Bagayoko-Penone / Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information , 2010)
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Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insight...
Xenophobic violence in South Africa: causes and solutions
- ( Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa , 2008)
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This article is a record of a presentation made by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to the South African Parliament. In the aftermath of the xenophobic violence o...
Building a framework for violence prevention
- ( World Health Organization , 2010)
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This programme seeks to provide a broad variety of interventions, in a number of settings, as a complement to the security sector reform approach. The programme aims to reduce armed violence a...
- Rebuilding democracy: elections in post-conflict settings
- ( Carlos Valenzuela / Public Broadcasting Service , 2008)
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This Point of View interview is conducted with Carlos Valenzuela, who headed the Independent Election Commission of the UN during the 2005 elections in Iraq. He responds to questions about the day-...
- Postwar reconstruction: enhancing people-led processes
- ( F. Galtung;M. Tisne / Tiri , 2009)
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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...
Armed violence: counting the cost
- ( United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees , 2008)
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The report brings into focus the wide ranging costs of war and crime on development and seeks to provide a solid evidence base to shape effective policy, programming, and advocacy to prevent and re...
How can armed violence in African pastoral communities be tackled?
- ( J. Bevan / United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
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Pastoral communities inhabit over 21 countries on the African continent. They are concentrated in some of the most arid regions of the continent, which necessitate semi- or wholly-nomadic livestock...
- Aiding development through reducing armed violence
- ( UN , 2009)
- The report examines different aspects of the relationship between armed violence and development. It places particular emphasis on tackling the risks and effects of armed violence and underdevelopment...
- Emerging approaches to armed violence reduction
- ( R. Keane (ed);D. Collings (ed);R. Rohozinksi (ed) / Governance and development, OECD-DAC , 2009)
- This policy paper explains why development policy makers and practitioners should aim to prevent and reduce armed violence. It targets the OECD-DAC donors and development practitioners, but it is equa...
What effect do peacekeeping missions have on local economies?
- ( K.M. Jennings;V. Nikolić-Ristanović / Microcon , 2009)
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UN peacekeeping missions have been a major component of many conflict and post-conflict environments. The resultant ‘economies’ that emerge to accommodate such an influx of personnel - ...
