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Sudan, oil, and human rights
Human Rights Watch, 2003This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.DocumentOptions for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector
International Peace Academy, 2002This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.DocumentEnhancing local capacity to manage conflicts: Malian women take centre stage
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Have we neglected the gender dimensions of conflict over natural resources (NR)? Are women’s capacities to analyse and resolve NR disputes sufficiently recognised? Can women’s rights to participate in NR management be affirmed in a way that is not confrontational? How could women be integrated into peace-making and reconciliation initiatives?DocumentTransnational corporations in conflict prone zones: public policy responses and a framework for action
International Alert, 2003Private sector activity is a significant factor influencing the shape and intensity of many conflicts. However, there has to date been little effort to engage different types of private sector actors systematically in conflict prevention.DocumentUN Sub-Commission draft norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2003This document constitutes a set of specific human rights guidelines on the diverse challenges affecting a broad range of industries. They are being presented for endorsement by the Human Rights Commission in March 2004.DocumentFinancing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations
World Bank, 2003This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.DocumentUneasy bedfellows? Modern law and traditional landholding principles in Niger
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002As populations rise in the Sahel and arable land degrades, is conflict inevitable? Why are reforms of tenure law, decentralisation and the creation of new land institutions failing to reduce disputes over access to and ownership of land? Could innovative forms of arbitration bring together stakeholders to settle lasting disputes and develop sustainable forms of natural resource management?DocumentRefugee return and state building: is the international community learning?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002The return of refugee populations has become a fundamental objective of UN state building. As conflict-ridden nations attempt to rebuild, how should the international community combine refugee resettlement with the promotion of responsible governance? What can Afghanistan’s tortuous history of attempted state formation and refugee repatriation teach us about the difficulties?DocumentDelimitation of the elastic Ilemi triangle: pastoral conflicts and official indifference in the Horn of Africa
African Studies Quarterly, 2003This article examines the complexity of demarcating the Kenya-Sudan-Ethiopia tri-junctional point known as the Ilemi Triangle.