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  Profile of internal displacement : Sudan

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2004

  Compilation of the information available in the Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council as of 19 May 2004.
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  Microcredit: an oxygen infusion for a better life

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2004

  This short article from the Norwegian refugee council outlines their involvement in providing microcredit to enable dispaced people from Nagorny Karabakh to develop economic opportunities.The article outlines a number of reasons for the success of the loan schemes focusing on the local organisation involved which has:worked to build trust and transparency and to enable a credit culture
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  NORAD fellowship programme magazine 2004

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2004

  The NORAD fellowship programme magazine provides an insight into the 40 year history of the programme, featuring the present developments for 2004.This edition of the NORAD fellowship programme magazine contains the following features:knowledge is the future - life as a Zambian student in Norwayfrom development aid to knowledge exchange - the history of the fellowship programme
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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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  Livestock production: the twenty first century's food revolution

  Livestock Research for Rural Development, 2004

  This paper discusses the donor community's role in securing a poverty oriented commercialisation of livestock production in the developing world.The author notes that the global food market is undergoing major changes, especially in the developing world.
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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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  Ecologically-based participatory implementation of integrated pest management and agroforestry in Nicaragua and central America

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This report details the implementation of an integrated pest management and agroforestry (IPM-AF) program, developed in response to the weakening of the extension function within national agricultural systems in Nicaragua and Central America.

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