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Searching with a thematic focus on Good governance institutional development, Governance, Conflict and security, Security

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  The Arab Reform Initiative

  The Arab Reform Initiative is a network of independent Arab research and policy institutes, with partners from the United States and Europe.
• Document

  Security sector reform in the Arab region: challenges to developing an indigenous agenda

  The Arab Reform Initiative, 2007

  Argues that Western practitioners developing and promoting security sector reform (SSR) in the Arab world tend to emphasise its ‘technical aspects’, in the hope that de-politicisation will make it more acceptable to both Western donor governments and Arab recipient countries.
• Document

  Measuring the contribution of criminal justice systems to the control of crime and violence: lessons from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2007

  This paper examines the measurement tools employed by governments facing high levels of crime and violence to increase safety and deliver justice.
• Document

  Of broken social contracts and ethnic violence: the case of Kashmir

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2005

  This paper examines the conflict in Kashmir, arguing that the main reason for political discontent and resort to violence has to do with repeated infringement of the social contract by the central government of India, acting often in tandem with the state government. It first considers the theoretical debates concerning nationalism and ethnicity.
• Document

  Law and counterterrorism: the Prevention of Terrorism Act in a strategic dimension

  Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2004

  To date, India’s policy-level response to terrorism has been ad-hoc at best. The recently passed Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) attempts to address the most critical dilemma facing democracies – how to maintain security while upholding civil liberties.
• Document

  Constructing authority alternatives in Colombia: globalisation and the transformation of governance

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2004

  This paper examines the new institutional arrangements that are emerging to replace or complement sovereign authority, as well as their consequences for state strength, legitimacy, and governance.

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