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  The International Water Academy

  The International Water Academy aims to foster the existence of a community of experts with the purpose of aiding in management and use of water for the benefit of all humankind.
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  Panos Institute, London

  The Panos Institute, London is a registered charity which works to make the complex issues facing developing countries accessible and understandable, to provide information that people can trust, and
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  Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York (RBF)

  The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a philanthropic organisation working to promote social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.Through its grantmaking, the Fund sup
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  African Water Issues Research Unit, South Africa (AWIRU)

  The African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU) is a not-for-profit applied research organisation based at the University of Pretoria, established to develop an African capacity to understand the compl
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  Regulating the commons in Mauritania: local agreements as a tool for sustainable natural resource management

  International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006

  Natural resource management is Mauritania is a complex pluri-legal affair, with tribal law, colonial French law and modern state law coexisting and often contradicting. One approach of dealing with these codes, and at the same time, the various stakeholders, is to establish local agreements (LAs).
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  ETFRN News 43/44: forests and conflicts

  European Tropical Forest Research Network, 2006

  This newsletter highlights the theme of forests and conflict. While there is much international debate on security and governance issues, sustainable management of natural resources appears to receive inadequate attention.
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  The Western Sahara conflict: the role of natural resources in decolonization

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2006

  This collection of articles looks at the role of natural resources in Western Sahara and outlines the framework for Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco.There is no doubt that the question of the natural resources of Western Sahara such as fish, oil and phosphates has been the main reason for the interest in the area in question.
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  Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

  Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005

  This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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  Transboundary water cooperation as a tool for conflict prevention

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  This paper examines the role of trans-boundary water resource management and cooperation as a tool for preventing broader conflict. It argues that some factors regarding potential contributions to the development of trans-boundary basins have received insufficient attention.
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  An architecture of instability: how the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken

  Global Witness, 2005

  This policy briefing provides recommendations for the incoming Liberian government, the UN Security Council and international donor agencies on the best ways to protect democracy and resources within Liberia. The authors outline the systematic failure of numerous agencies to protect the natural resources and boarders of Liberia.

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