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    Land governance in Brazil: a geo-historical review

    International Land Coalition, 2012
    This paper examines the paradoxes of land governance in Brazil by putting them in their historical context, highlighting in particular the continuing subordination of peasant farmers’ interests to those of large landholders.
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    Student politics: a game-theoretic exploration

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Students in institutes of higher education often engage in campus-politics. Typically there are student-parties who electorally compete with each other to gain control of the union which is usually the apex student body dealing directly with the higher authorities on student-related and other academic issues.
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    HIV/AIDS and militaries in Southern Africa: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic for security in southern Africa will continue to emerge over the next century. The sub-region is faced with a daunting challenge: mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS while establishing new institutions for development, democratisation and peace.
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    AIDS and society in South Africa: building a community of practice

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The first 25 years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic have been largely focused on bio-medical research. Gradually, social science researchers, donors, policymakers and activists have recognised that HIV/AIDS is more than simply a health issue and that the pandemic has developmental, governance and security implications.
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    HIV/AIDS and human security in South Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), based at the University of Cape Town, held a two-day policy seminar on  June 2006. The seminar, on the theme, “HIV/AIDS and Human Security in South Africa” , drew on knowledge and expertise on the scope and response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and southern Africa.
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    The peacebuilding role of civil society in Central Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    Central Africa has been one of the most volatile sub-regions on the continent, experiencing four of the most violent conflicts in Africa in the last decade: in Rwanda, Burundi, Angola and the DRC. Other countries such as Chad and CAR have also experienced chronic instability since the end of colonial rule in the 1960s.
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    United Nations mediation experience in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, on behalf of the United Nations (UN) Department of Political Affairs (DPA), hosted a two-day meeting on the theme: “Operationalising Mediation Support: Lessons from Mediation Experience in Africa.” The meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa,  October 2006.
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    West Africa's evolving security architecture: looking back to the future

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, West Africa has been among the most volatile regions in the world. Local brushfires  raged from Liberia to Sierra Leone, from Guinea to Guinea-Bissau, and from Senegal to Côte d’Ivoire in an inter-connected web of instability.
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    The United Nations and Africa: peace, development and human security

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    The UN Security Council adopted 195 resolutions on African conflicts between 2000 and 2006. Since more than two-thirds of the Security Council’s agenda focuses on African issues in any given month, some on the continent feel that Africa has effectively become an experimental and legitimising field for new UN initiatives, institutions, norms and doctrines.
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    Africa's responsibility to protect: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    A perennial issue confronting the international community is the degree to which international society is responsible for the protection of civilians during humanitarian crises. The “responsibility to protect” principle imparts the international community with three commitments: the responsibility to prevent; the responsibility to react; and the responsibility to rebuild.

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