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    Texting it in: monitoring elections with mobile phones

    MobileActive.org, 2007
    The future is bright for innovative ways in which cell phones are used by citizens to participate and engage in their countries as the mobile revolution unfolds. This article discusses the pioneering method of using text messages for election monitoring in various countries.
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    SSR and post-conflict reconstruction: armed wing of state-building?

    The Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform, 2009
    Using a case taken from the reconstruction of Sierra Leone this paper outlines some of the key issues emerging after ten years of reconstruction efforts and also moves on to analyse what lessons can and can’t be drawn from this experience and what implications are for SSR going forward. The author goes ahead to explain the ideas such as;
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Negotiating justice: guidance for mediators

    The International Center for Transitional Justice, 2009
    Questions of justice and accountability for past crimes can be a central point of contention in peace negotiations.
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    Women Building Peace and Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict-Affected Contexts: A Review of Community-Based Approaches

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (in 2000) on women, peace and security commits the UN and its member states to engage women in conflict prevention and peace-building, a factor that is recognised by many international institutions as crucial for the success of peace-building efforts.
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    A rethink on the use of aid mechanisms in health sector early recovery

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2009
    States emerging from protracted crises struggle to provide basic services. This is no more crucial than in the health sector where vulnerable ‘post-conflict’ populations are frequently in dire need of care.
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    Health system reconstruction: can it contribute to state-building?

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2008
    There is a growing knowledge base demonstrating the importance of good governance in the health sector for effective health systems and improved service delivery. This study commissioned by the Health and Fragile States Network, explores the interactions between health sector strengthening and state-building.
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    Post-conflict health sectors: the myth and reality of transitional funding gaps

    KIT Development Policy & Practice, 2008
    During the transition from conflict to peace, the limited health services that exist, mainly provided by humanitarian non-governmental organisations, often come under threat of contraction.
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    What the communities say. The crossroads between integration and reconciliation: what can be learned from the Sierra Leonean experience?

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2009
    Six years after the end of the civil war, integrating ex-combatants into civilian society is still a challenge confronting Sierra Leone. Integration is a multidimensional process, commonly broken down into economic, political, and social integration.
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    Integration of insurgents in post-conflict Sierra Leone

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Sierra Leone presents a unique reintegration challenge. The West African state must reconcile ex-combatants with victims and civil society and also incorporate a brutalised group of highly disaffected youths. In such contexts, recovery requires more than encouragement of political participation and holding elections.

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