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    China and Japan- tensions in East China Sea

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    China’s involvement in a maritime dispute over the East China Sea with Japan has become a potential hotspot in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite the fact that it does not involve multiple claimants like in the South China Sea dispute, this particular issue has drawn international attention and has become as complicated as the SCS dispute.
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    Angola: Parallel governments, oil and neopatrimonial system reproduction

    Institute for Security Studies, 2011
    Over the last 35 years, the central government in Luanda has not only survived a potent insurgency, external intervention, international isolation, sanctions and economic collapse, but it has also managed to emerge victorious from a highly destructive and divisive civil war, achieving double-digit economic growth less than a decade after the cessation of hostilities.
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    Forest governance in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Although difficult to calculate systematically, forests play a significant economic role at the continental, regional, national and local levels in Africa. This paper sets out to provide an overview of key forest governance issues across the African continent. It focuses particularly on the experiences in western, central and, to a lesser extent, eastern subregions of the continent.
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    Enhancing the governance of Africa’s oil sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Empirical studies have shown that oil-dependent countries are more likely to suffer from civil wars motivated by ‘grievances’ or ‘greed’ — and this is particularly true for states in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Jonglei 2010: Another round of disarmament

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    Although the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of January 2005 formally ended the war between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), internal security has remained a major problem for the fledgling southern government.
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    Abyei natural resources conflicts

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    This report explores the major factors underlying the violent conflict in Abyei. It aims to contribute to policy relevant knowledge of the link between resources and conflict and to propose a general framework for action.
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    Sierra Leone: Business more than usual

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    It is over three years since Ernest Bai Koroma, leading the All Peoples Congress (APC), became President of Sierra Leone, and less than two years to elections that will test both his popularity and the country’s ability to sustain its postwar democratic experiment.
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    Resource abundance in mozambique: avoiding conflict, ensuring prosperity

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    From as early as the 1960s companies have been exploring the natural resource wealth of Mozambique. However, it is only in the past decade that the potential of these resources has been realised. Indeed, Mozambique is now thought to have some of the largest deposits of gas and coal on the African continent, and beyond.
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    Marikana as a tipping point? The political economy of labour tensions in South Africa’s mining industry and how best to resolve them

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Before 16 August 2012, the platinum-mining South African town of Marikana was still largely unknown outside the mining sector. On that fateful day, everything changed. A toxic cocktail of a brutal police force and grievance-mobilised workers resulted in the death of 34 striking mineworkers.
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    Brazil’s maritime strategy in the South Atlantic: the nexus between security and resources

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The recent discovery of significant deposits of oil and gas in the pre-salt layers off the Brazilian coast has triggered new interests and concerns within the South Atlantic geopolitical space.

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