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    Iran and regional security: understanding Tehran’s predicaments, objectives and strategies

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    •Iran has the capability of being a ‘regional hub’ when looked at from Morocco to South Asia. But its capability of emerging as a ‘regional hub’ is closely dependent upon recognition and acceptance by the United States of America.
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    Climate change and natural resources conflicts in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    Africa is among the most likely vulnerable regions of the world that are to be negatively impacted by climate change. The continent’s vulnerability to climate change arises from a combination of many factors, including extreme poverty, high rate of population increase, frequent natural disasters such as droughts and floods, and agricultural systems that are heavily dependent on rainfall.
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    Zimbabwe: from global (dis)agreement to free and fair elections? Considering scenarios for Zimbabwe

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    With the second anniversary of Zimbabwe’s Interim Government (IG) fast approaching,  the protagonists  in and observers of what has ironically become Zimbabwe’s global and persistent political disagreement are now beginning to focus their attention on the likelihood of elections taking   place   in  2011.  While the key political players appea
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    The Adaptation Fund, Clean Development Mechanism and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Fund: some national and subnational experiences

    Center for Security Studies, 2011
    With developing countries anticipating the flow of billions of dollars from developed countries to address the devastating impacts of climate change, it is important to recognise that the amounts of funding, the number of institutions involved and coherence in the global architecture will be meaningless without there being democratic governance of the funds at the local level.
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    Pakistan: politics, religion & extremism

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2009
    The question that arises is that if militant theology is more often a consequence than a cause for militant orientation, then what leads religious groups towards militancy in the first place? Why did religious groups choose violence to improve the lot of their institutions and constituents, resisting repression and gaining political power?
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    The nuclear safety culture in India: past, present and future

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    Global, electricity demand is expected to grow by 76% from 2007-2031 resulting in a steep (over 50%) increase in energy related greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants in the absence of concerted efforts by governments to transition to cleaner sources.
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    Special Report - ethnicity, separatism and terrorism in Xinjiang: China's triple conundrum

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    Massive investments, continuous political harangues and high propaganda have all failed to deliver the much-espoused ‘harmonious’, ‘stable’ and ‘integrative’ development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The achievement of such a vision, outlined in the Chinese government’s White Papers (2003 and 2009), seems far from being realized.
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    Microsoft Word - EngGreatLakesPolBrief.docx - PolBrief35.pdf

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    The year 2011 heralded the convergence of various initiatives seeking to curtail the financing of conflict in the Great Lakes region through the illegal exploitation of minerals.
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    Leadership required: drug trafficking and the crisis of statehood in West Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    Beginning in the middle of the last decade, the international community was alerted to the fact that drug trafficking in West Africa was in danger of spawning a series of near ‘narco -­‐ states’: countries whose econ omies, politics and social structures were being infiltrated and distorted by the drug trade.
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    Priorities for African states negotiating for an Arms Trade Treaty

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    A strong Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is needed because of the poorly regulated international transfer of conventional arms and the current absence of global standards based on human rights and international humanitarian law to control such transfers.

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