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  Challenges and opportunities for defining and measuring human security

  United Nations [UN] Department for Disarmament Affairs, 2004

  This paper address three major human security issues, namely, the history and definition of human security, measuring human security, and the relationship between components of human security such as human rights.The author finds that the core principle of human security (that the individual rather than the state should be at the centre of security policy) has its roots in eighteenth century en
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  Norwegian peacebuilding policies: lessons learnt and challenges ahead

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  This report represents the Norwegian national paper on peace building policies. Norway is a member of the so-called Utstein group, along with Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
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  Towards a strategic framework for peacebuilding: overview report of the joint Utstein study of peacebuilding

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  This report provides an overview of the Utstein agenda for peace building, implemented in 1999 by the development ministries of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK (known as the U4). The report analyses empirical evidence from 336 peace building projects implemented by the U4.Overall, the report finds major strategic deficits in the peace building efforts of the U4.
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  View Conflicts: software for visualising spatiotemporal data on armed conflicts

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper reports on a software system designed to support visual exploration of datasets on armed conflicts.
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  Profile of internal displacement : Rwanda

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2004

  Almost five years after the UN stopped counting internally displaced people (IDPs) in Rwanda, this report finds that there are still 180,000 relocated families living under plastic sheeting, in damaged shelters or temporarily occupying other people's homes.
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  Spatial data on armed intrastate conflict

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper details the ongoing work by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in developing digital conflict maps of conflict locations since 1946.The author argues that the analysis of conflict and relevant geo-referenced variables such as population distribution, ethnic composition, natural resource deposits, and terrain contributes to understanding of why conflicts occur and how
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  The location of natural resources database

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  This paper examines how natural resources can be disaggregated by type and geographic location, and how such data can be manipulated using geographic information systems to create a database.The author discusses the perceived link between global natural resources distribution and armed conflict.
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  Understanding environment, conflict, and cooperation

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004

  This report seeks to guide researchers and policymakers in their understanding of the complex set of connections that tie environment, conflict and cooperation.Chapters from this report emerged from the workshop’s discussions of analysis, institutional responses, integrated assessment and early warning systems.
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  Profile of internal displacement: Nepal

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2004

  This paper reports on information from the global internally displaced database (IDP), compiled by the Norwegian Refugee Council as of September 2004.
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  Classification of natural resources for armed civil conflict research

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper focuses on recent research that identifies natural resource abundance as a factor that significantly increases the risk of conflict.

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