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    Still waiting for the bonanza: the oil business in South Sudan after 2005

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The Chevron Oil Company, in 1978, discovered marketable quantities of oil in the area that is today known as Unity state, South Sudan.
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    Preventing and resolving future climate and natural resource-related conflicts in the Zambezi Basin: a Study of Bulawayo and Chinde Districts

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Long-term changes in climate are likely to increase a range of risks to human security, including the risk of violent conflict. The city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, and Chinde district in the Zambezia province of Mozambique have been identified as areas that are highly susceptible to future climate-induced conflicts.
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    Falling between the cracks? Prospects for environmental litigation arising from oil production in Southern Sudan

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    Oil production in Southern Sudan has degraded agricultural lands and caused mass displacement and suffering of local pastoralist and agriculturalist communities. This paper seeks to identify the legal system governing the adjudication of environmental issues arising from oil production in Southern Sudan after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005.
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    Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds and the need for reform of the Kimberley Process

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    In November 2011 the Kimberley Process (KP) approved the sale of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange region. The decision follows two years of contention and debate regarding human rights abuses perpetrated in the mining area and the question of whether Marange’s diamonds should be classified as ‘conflict diamonds’.
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    Governance of oil resources and the referendum in Southern Sudan

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has suffered prolonged violent conflicts and other political crises, which brought Southern Sudan to the brink of secession (at the time of writing).
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    Indian mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    The main mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are listed in Canada, Australia and the US. These companies are being steadily joined by Chinese state-owned operators. Although Indian mining companies have a growing presence in the copper, cobalt, tin and tantalum sectors, their operations remain relatively small scale, and none can yet be considered a mining major.
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    China and post-conflict reconstruction in Africa: the case of Sudan

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    From Darfur to Zimbabwe, the DRC to Guinea, China’s African engagement is linked commonly to different forms of conflict. A less-observed phenomenon, however, is China’s developing post-conflict role in Africa.
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    Climate finance: Mobilising private sector finance for mitigation and adaptation

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    Despite the uncertainties surrounding the risks associated with climate change, it is indisputably one of the greatest challenges of our time. Climate finance supports various climate change mitigation and adaptation activities, as well as efforts to enable the transition towards low-carbon, climate-resilient development.
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    Conflict, climate change and politics: Why a techno-centric approach fails the resilience challenge

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    This paper explores the nexus between climate change and conflict using three case studies to look at the role of political analysis in analysis of climate change impacts. The first, on Aceh, shows how inattention to the political legacy of a recent conflict can undermine well-intentioned and technically sound environmental or climate mitigation programmes.
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    Desertification: the invisible frontline

    Convention to Combat Desertification, 2014
    This publication examines desertification as a cause of global conflict and instability and calls for urgent action to support communities in crisis. It argues that the effects of desertification are increasingly felt globally as victims turn into refugees, internally displaced people and forced migrants or they turn to radicalisation, extremism or resource-driven wars for survival.

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