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  Counter radicalization: development assistance

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2006

  This paper reviews current research and practice and recommends strategies for development agencies working in the Arab and Muslim world. It builds on the basic assumption that the realization of the Millennium Development Goals will be vital to reduce support for terrorism in the long term.
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  Aid allocation criteria: results based frameworks and aid to difficult partnerships

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This report describes the different factors that donors take into account when determining their allocations of aid to countries, with a special focus on those that do not achieve "good performer" status.
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  Economic aid to post-conflict countries: a methodological critique of Collier and Hoeffler

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This note reports on the direction of the World Bank's research into the countries emerging from civil war as conducted by Collier and Hoeffler.
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  Challenges of post-disaster development of coastal areas in Sri Lanka

  South Asia Citizens Web, 2005

  This document considers the question of post-disaster development in Sri Lanka and the issues it raises in relation to conflict, peace building and well being. The author argues that there is convincing evidence of social resilience and individual and collective initiative and creativity in the face of adversity.
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  Strengthening IMF crisis prevention

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper focuses on how to reform IMF operations (in particular, IMF surveillance and its relationship with crisis lending) with the aim of providing stronger incentives for crisis prevention.It recommends that incentives could be improved by: providing more effective encouragement to policymakers to undertake actions that will prevent costly financial crisesby discouraging excess
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  Filling “the Gap”: lessons well learnt by the Multilateral Aid Agencies

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  Following the assumed gap between relief and development assistance as prominent in the 1990s, this article examines the response to bridging this gap between, with a focus on the multilateral aid agencies in the UN system.
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  Bridging development and humanitarian work in protracted crises

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Development aid donors are paying more attention to countries in long-term crisis, which may help conflict-affected populations. However, it is difficult to distinguish between the forms of aid available, especially with donors now linking security and aid. How can and should the humanitarian community respond to the increasing involvement of development groups?
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  Freedom and responsibility: representative on freedom of the media

  Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2005

  This document outlines the global position of the media in 2004. Arguing that media is the very essence of the contemporary connotations of knowledge, the report outlines how the role of the media reflects democracy and freedom within society.The reports focuses on the growth of the internet which has increased the availability and volume of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ content.
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  Humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan, 2001-05: from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This report, initiated by The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida), the Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI), the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), presents the findings of an Evaluation of their assistance to Afghanistan over 2001-early 2005.Main recomme
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  Education in situations of emergency, conflict and post-conflict

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2001

  This brief paper describes Sida’s (Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation) views on support to education in societies in situations of emergency, conflict and post-conflict.

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