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Reforming hospital systems in turbulent times
London School of Economics (=British Library for Political and Economic Science (BLPES)), 2001The countries of central and eastern Europe and central Asia have embarked, to varying extents over the last decade, on a process of restructuring their hospital dominated health care systems. In doing so they have, however, encountered considerable barriers.DocumentHuman Rights Watch World Report 2004: human rights and armed conflict
Human Rights Watch, 2004This 407-page report includes 15 essays on a variety of subjects related to war and human rights, from Africa to Afghanistan, from sexual violence as a method of warfare to the new trends in post-conflict international justice.DocumentSudan, oil, and human rights
Human Rights Watch, 2003This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.DocumentOptions for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector
International Peace Academy, 2002This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.DocumentThe rise of ethnic militias, de-legitimisation of the state, and the threat to Nigerian federalism
West African Review, 2001The idea of federalism is still an evolving one, but how is it evolving in Nigeria? Nigeria is an archetypal plural society characterised by divergent languages, cultures, ethnic groups and geographic regions. The author argues that federalism represents a compromise solution for multi-national states like Nigeria.DocumentEthnicity, state power and the democratisation process in Uganda
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2002Is ethnicity the cause for the breakdowns in national unity, democracy and development in Uganda? This paper critically reviews the impact of ethnicity on the democratisation process in Uganda from colonialism to the present. The author argues that ethnicity in Uganda, as elsewhere on the African continent, has been historically constructed and subsequently reproduced.DocumentConserving the peace: resources, livelihoods and security
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention.The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity, alone or in conjunction with other forces, can have such a destabilizing impact on communities and societies that they may experience high levels of insecurity and even sDocumentTransition without transformation: civil society and the transition seesaw in Kenya
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000Kenya is experiencing a process of multiple transitions whose elements are for the most part incongruent and counter-productive. The author argues that the most pronounced tension in this process is that between the universal (western) modes of democratic transition and the ethno-traditional modes that are denigrated as illiberal and undemocratic.DocumentHuman rights, religious conflict, and globalization: ultimate values in a new world order
Management of Social Transformations Clearing House, 1999The belief in innate human rights has achieved quasi-religious status in the late-modern world.