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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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    Gun Free Kitchen Tables Activity Report

    Isha L’Isha Feminist Centre, 2011
    The Gun Free Kitchen Tables (GFKT) campaign demands enforcement of an existing Israeli law which limits security guards’ authorisation to bear arms to worksites only.
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    Our Bodies Are Still Trembling: Haitian Women’s Fight Against Rape

    Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, 2010
    This report outlines evidence showing that the rape of women and girls dramatically increased in the aftermath of the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, especially in Internally Displace People (IDP) camps. In the first two months after the earthquake a grassroots women’s organisation reported 230 rapes in just fifteen IDP camps.
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    Securing communities: summaries of key literature on community policing

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This document contains extended summaries of key background texts and readings from both academic and policy literatures which elucidate and debate the definitions, objectives, models and influencing factors of community policing in different contexts. The author states there is an extensive literature on community policing and it was not possible to cover it all in these summaries.
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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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    The new geopolitics of peace operations: mapping the emerging landscape

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2012
    As the world’s geopolitical landscape is reshaped by changes in the relationships between leading global and regional powers, important questions are being raised about the durability of the recent downward trend in armed conflict, as well as the international consensus on forms of peace operations and what will be politically feasible in terms of interventions to address the conflict age
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    China and its peripheries: Securing Nepal in South Asia

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Nepal plays an important role in China’s South Asia Policy as it forms the entry point for China into the region.
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    The Power of Naming: ‘Senseless Violence’ and Violent Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2012
    This report focuses on vigilantism, on the practice of ‘necklacing’ as a form of punishment, and on police violence in South Africa post-apartheid. The report engages with a series of questions about how popular forms of justice are imagined and enacted and about what the persistence of forms of violent punishment that originated during apartheid signifies in South Africa today.
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    Enhancing security and justice in Liberia: The regional hub model

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2013
    A state’s failure to guarantee security and justice presents major obstacles to the achievement of political, social and economic development. Like many other countries ravaged by war, Liberia has experienced challenges with developing and maintaining effective security and justice systems.
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    Latin American approaches to extractive industry conflict

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
    The rapid expansion of extractive industries in Latin America is transforming the societies and territories in which it is occurring. This phenomenon has provoked social and environmental conflict, especially involving the rural and indigenous communities that are most immediately affected. How are Latin American countries seeking to mitigate and avoid such conflicts?

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