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    Extractive industries and peacebuilding in Afghanistan: the role of social accountability

    United States Institute of Peace, 2013
    Afghanistan’s mineral reserves are a major potential source of wealth. Extracting thesereserves could contribute billions to government revenue through taxes and royalties. Thesector could also provide some employment in mining areas and help boost investment inservices and infrastructure across the country. However, mining could generate conflict in
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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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    The Syrian refugees in Lebanon April 2011 - April 2012

    The American University in Cairo, 2012
    In 2011, refugees fleeing the civil strife in Syria started to leave their country. In 2012, the dimensions and pace of their movement grew, turning it in an authentic crisis of Syrian refugees. This was a human predicament for the refugees obliged to leave their homes.
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    'External stresses’ and violence mitigation in fragile contexts: setting the stage for policy analysis

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Following on from the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development, a debate has emerged about the role of so-called ‘external stresses’ in generating ‘new’ forms of violence and insecurity in poor and fragile countries.
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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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    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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    China–South Sudan: governance in emerging relations

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    China has been developing a more involved engagement with the government of South Sudan and its ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). Governance is fundamental to the nature of, and prospects, for China’s current and future relations with South Sudan.
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    Prospects for Africa's 26 fragile countries

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    Africa is witnessing strong and sustained high levels of economic growth; however, some countries experiencing conflict are caught in a vicious cycle of violence, chronic poverty, inequality and exclusion from the gains of growth. This policy paper provides an overview of a longer monograph that provides long-term forecasts of fragility in Africa.

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