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  Religion versus ethnicity as a source of mobilisation: Are there differences?

  Microcon, 2009

  The root causes of most violent conflicts lie in economic and political factors and inequalities of various types but usually, people are mobilised by ethnic or religious identities. This paper explores the differences and similarities between the use of religion and ethnicity in mobilising identities for conflict.
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  Seeing people through the trees: scaling up efforts to advance rights and address poverty, conflict and climate change

  The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2008

  The report discusses how tensions over forests in coming decades will influence the severity of climate change, the course of wars and civil conflicts, and the health of the world. It is asserted that few development interventions in forest areas have worked in favour of either the forest dwellers or the forests and that a new approach and urgent action is needed.
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  The ‘Ambivalence of the Sacred’ in Africa: the impact of religion on peace and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa

  German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2008

  This paper carries out a preliminary assessment of the role of religions in sub-Saharan civil conflicts. Quantitative and qualitative analysis based on a newly compiled database including 28 violent conflicts show that religion plays a role more frequently than is usually assumed and that the effects of religions are principally ambiguous.
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  Economic and social structures that may explain the recent conflicts in the Terai of Nepal

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007

  This document attempts to explain the present ethnic-based conflict in the Terai of Nepal by deeper social and economic structures. Based on previous research on the village economies of Terai the authors describe the main socio-economic structures, and discuss to what extent the Terai movement represent the socially, and economically, excluded people.
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  Closed to progress: an assessment of the socio-economic impacts of conflict on pastoral and semi pastoral economies in Kenya and Uganda

  Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005

  This paper assesses the impact of conflict on social service delivery, agricultural production, trade and investment, as well as the nexus between conflict and HIV AIDS. It particularly focuses on the pastoral and semi pastoral economies in Kenya and the Karamoja region of Uganda.
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  Trade and conflict

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005

  This report examines the theoretical underpinnings of trade and conflict, and lays out the debate on how free trade affects conflict.
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  Making it work: why the Kimberley Process must do more to stop conflict diamonds

  Global Witness, 2005

  This report considers the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, an agreement set up to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds.
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  An architecture of instability: how the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken

  Global Witness, 2005

  This policy briefing provides recommendations for the incoming Liberian government, the UN Security Council and international donor agencies on the best ways to protect democracy and resources within Liberia. The authors outline the systematic failure of numerous agencies to protect the natural resources and boarders of Liberia.
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  Water rights, conflicts and collective action: case of Telugu Ganga Project, India

  Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands, 2005

  Using the case study of the Telugu Ganga Canalin India, this paper examines the process of policy making and the role of political choices in sharing scarce water resource.
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  Crude designs: the rip off of Iraq’s oil wealth

  New Economics Foundation, 2005

  This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, which will allocate the majority of Iraq’s oilfields – accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil reserves – for development by multinational oil companies.Economic projections published in the report show that the model of oil development that is being proposed will cost Iraq

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