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    Transnational organised crime in Eastern Africa: a threat assessment

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013
    Given the size and diversity of the region of Eastern Africa, any discussion of crime problems, the authors assert, is necessarily selective. This report focuses on four major issues:
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    Drug Trafficking and Threats to National and Regional Security in West Africa

    West Africa Commission on Drugs, 2013
    In less than one and a half decades West Africa has become a major transit and repackaging hub for cocaine and heroin flowing from the Latin American and Asian producing areas to European markets.
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    Is it the right time for the international community to exit Sierra Leone?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    A glance at key indicators – in terms of growth forecast and stable elections – will project Sierra Leone as a model for a successful post-conflict state.
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    Missing the point: violence reduction and policy misadventures in Nairobi's poor neighbourhoods

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Violence and crime are part of everyday life in many of Nairobi’s poor urban neighbourhoods. While wealthier enclaves of the city are heavily guarded by private security firms, violence and protection provided through criminal organisations and vigilante groups has become commonplace in the poor neighbourhoods.
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    Who rules Nigeria?

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2012
    Nigeria has experienced military coups, a civil war and very poor economic development, and its population is more impoverished today than at independence. Behind this lies the “oil curse”. The ruling elite has captured the rents generated from oil for personal enrichment and power purposes. Nigeria’s elite formation has three distinct characteristics.
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    Mediating criminal violence: lessons from the gang truce in El Salvador

    Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2013
    During the 1980s El Salvador suffered a bitterly contested civil war. Negotiations mediated by the United Nations concluded in a peace agreement in 1992 and set the course for the, largely smooth, assimilation of former guerrillas in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) into Salvadoran political life.
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    The New Deal's peacebuilding and statebuilding goals and organised crime

    International Alert, 2013
    Organised crime has the potential to further contribute to fragility by intervening in what are often fraught relationships between state and society, as well as between citizens themselves.
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    The missing middle - examining the Armed Group phenomenon in Nepal

    Small Arms Survey, 2013
    This brief reports on the history of the country’s armed groups, their initial proliferation following the signing of the peace agreement following the civil war, their development and overlap with other societal groups, the reasons behind their recent decline, and their relationship to the state.
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    Getting smart and scaling up: responding to the impact of organized crime on governance in developing countries

    Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2013
    The development landscape is rapidly changing and new centres of economic dynamism are emerging. At the same time, organized criminal activity, including illicit trafficking and financial flows, is increasing in these same settings, often fuelling tension or violence among elites or other groups vying for control of illicit markets.
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    Literature review: instability and intrastate conflict in Zimbabwe

    Research4Development, 2013
    There is consensus in the recent (2011-13) literature on Zimbabwe that although the country has stabilised considerably since the last elections in 2008, the risk of internal conflict during the period surrounding the 2013 elections is high. The principal factors underpinning the potential for conflict are:

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