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  Somali pirates have rights too: judicial consequences and human rights concerns

  Institute for Security Studies, 2011

  This paper deals with the international community’s efforts conducted in countering piracy in the Horn of Africa, focusing particularly on the legality of the existing piracy jurisdiction.
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  Confronting complex political crises in West Africa: an analysis of ECOWAS responses to Niger and Côte d’Ivoire

  Institute for Security Studies, 2011

  Recent political crises in West Africa have resulted from a variety of factors, including bad governance, the uneven distribution of national wealth and the manipulation of ethnic communities. This paper illustrates that despite some success in countering the effects of armed conflicts in West Africa, the region still faces a number of serious threats to the security of its people.  
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  African Standby Force police roster system: proposed features, operations and processes

  Institute for Security Studies, 2013

  Although Africa hosts most peacekeeping missions, the rest of the world seems to be reluctant to deploy forces to the continent. Therefore, Africa needs to develop its own peacekeeping capabilities more than any other region.
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  Debates in post-conflict development in Africa: lessons for development agencies

  Institute for Security Studies, 2014

  Luckily, many post-conflict settings benefit from high levels of international attention and domestic optimism in the immediate aftermath of transition, with no lack of external actors drawn from the diaspora, private sector investors and a plethora of international aid organisations. Yet, channeling this attention towards improved development outcomes is difficult.
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  Internal and external dilemmas of peacebuilding in Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2014

  Peacebuilding, as a distinct area of international engagement, developed in the early 1990s within the context of the reform of the conflict prevention and peacekeeping capacity of the UN.
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  Zero option & Afghan stability: Karzai, Obama and the high stakes in Afghanistan

  Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013

  According to open source, there are over 60,000 American troops in Afghanistan today; this figure is expected to be reduced gradually during 2014. According to this “residue” approach, the process will continue down to December 2014, but would not result in a complete withdrawal.
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  The new geopolitics of peace operations: mapping the emerging landscape

  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2012

  As the world’s geopolitical landscape is reshaped by changes in the relationships between leading global and regional powers, important questions are being raised about the durability of the recent downward trend in armed conflict, as well as the international consensus on forms of peace operations and what will be politically feasible in terms of interventions to address the conflict age
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  When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention

  Overseas Development Institute, 2013

  This paper by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) argues for increased focus on the conflict-disaster nexus in fragile and conflict-affected states. It is based on a study assessing the evidence base on the ways in which natural disasters affect conflict, how conflict affects natural disasters and how people are affected by multiple risks.
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  Global peace index: methodology, reports and findings

  Vision of Humanity, 2008

  The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2008 ranks nations based on their relative states of peace. Covering 140 countries, the GPI brings a snapshot of relative peacefulness among nations while continuing to contribute to an understanding of what factors help create or sustain more peaceful societies.
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  Who guards the guards?: the international criminal court and serious crimes commited by peacekeepers in Africa

  Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2006

  This document traces the rise of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and discuss the different crimes in its jurisdiction.

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