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    Terrorism and human rights

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2007
    The primary objectives of an effective counter-terrorism effort are to safeguard human rights, strengthen democracy and uphold the Rule of Law. The response to terrorism can neither be selective nor lead to unleashing a wave of unbridled repression, which would, as a consequence, enormously infringe upon the rights of the citizens.
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    Building peace in Southern Africa: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a policy research seminar in Cape Town on February 2010 on the theme: “Building Peace in Southern Africa”.
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    Post-conflict reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    This CCR policy brief is based on a policy advisory group meeting, held on 19-20 April 2010, in response to a request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat in Botswana, to assess the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction in the DRC.
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    Guinea: the main challenges of the new president

    Institute for Security Studies, 2011
    On 27 June 2010, Guineans went to the polls to elect one of 24 aspirants to the presidency. The Guinean Constitution (Article 32) requires a candidate to have gained an absolute majority in order to be elected president. None of the aspirants garnered the required percentage of votes in the first round.
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    West Africa: Continental engine or brake?

    Fride, 2014
    West Africa is changing and its future direction can influence that of the African continent. As home to Africa’s greatest energy reserves, fastest-growing economies and largest population, and as one of Africa’s best examples of regional integration, West Africa has the potential to drive continental progress.
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    Securing communities: summaries of key literature on community policing

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This document contains extended summaries of key background texts and readings from both academic and policy literatures which elucidate and debate the definitions, objectives, models and influencing factors of community policing in different contexts. The author states there is an extensive literature on community policing and it was not possible to cover it all in these summaries.
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    Center for American Progress (CAP)

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    Report on security sector reform in Latin America and the Caribbean

    La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), 2007
    The goal of this report is to contribute to an understanding of the political and institutional processes taking place in Latin America related to the security sector since the region's wide-scale return to democracy.
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Gender and security sector reform toolkit

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2008
    Security sector reform (SSR) opens a window of opportunity to transform security policies, institutions and programmes by integrating gender issues. The Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit is an initial response to the need for more information and analysis on gender and SSR processes.

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