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    Strengthening Women's Citizenship: Kosovo security sector and decentralisation

    Fride, 2010
     Kosovo has developed a number of policies and mechanisms to respond to the needs of its citizens, in particular in relation to security and decentralisation.
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    The DRC at 50: confronting the challenges of peace and territorial consolidation

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    On 30 June 2010 the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) celebrated 50 years of independence from colonial rule. At 50, the country is torn between competing and contradictory internal forces as it tries to negotiate a path towards self understanding, internal cohesion and responsible behaviour.
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    The work of violence: a timeline of armed attacks at Kennedy Road

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
    On 26 September 2009, violent attacks by an armed group left two men dead and an estimated thousand displaced at the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the South African city of Durban.
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    Disaster Risk Reduction, climate change adaptation and human security. A commissioned report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office, 2008
    The relationship between climate change and security is a key concern among governments and international organisations. Security concerns include the potential for conflict over natural resources, population displacement, migration, and humanitarian disasters due to extreme climatic events.
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    Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    This paper seeks to investigate why and when states delegate governance functions to others—and why the other agrees to take on the responsibilities. The author seeks to determine the conditions under which host states and external actors enact these self-enforcing equilibria.
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Report on security sector reform in Latin America and the Caribbean

    La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), 2007
    The goal of this report is to contribute to an understanding of the political and institutional processes taking place in Latin America related to the security sector since the region's wide-scale return to democracy.
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    Security and democracy in Southern Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This study investigates the interface between security, at both the national and regional levels, and democratisation. The paper asserts that security and democratic governance are intertwined. The paper focuses particularly on the South African Development Community (SADC) region, studying its countries as relevant example. The paper concludes the following:
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    Governing insecurity: democratic control of military and security establishments in transitional democracies

    Zed Books, 2003
    This book examines the governance of security and insecurity in developing and former communist countries that are becoming more democratic.
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    Human Development Report 1994

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1994
    The 1994 Human Development Report introduces a new concept of human security, which equates security with people rather than territories, with development rather than arms. It examines both the national and the global concerns of human security.

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