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  Focus on... Agriculture after conflict

  New Agriculturalist, 2007

  The aftermath of war is a reality faced by millions of rural poor around the world, and re-establishing agricultural production, for both subsistence and trade, is an essential part of the rehabilitation process.
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  Safety nets: reducing risk and encouraging development

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Providing ‘safety nets’ during food shortages involves distributing food or cash. This is a common short-term relief strategy to food shortages. Many economists claim that these discourage economic development, but safety nets actually encourage development when part of a comprehensive social protection strategy.
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  Humanitarian agenda 2015: principles, power, and perceptions

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007

  This report summarises the findings of the first phase of a research project on the challenges and compromises that are likely to affect humanitarian action in the next decade. The analysis is based on six case studies from Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, Liberia, northern Uganda and the Sudan.
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  Land issues and poverty reduction: requirements for lasting peace in Sudan and Afghanistan

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007

  This brief uses examples from Sudan and Afghanistan to highlight the role that land issues have played both in causing poverty and in driving and sustaining protracted conflict.
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  Getting the fundamentals right. The early stages of Afghanistan’s WTO accession process

  Oxfam, 2007

  This paper looks at how Afghanistan can give itself the best possible chance of achieving WTO accession in a way that supports its efforts to develop sustainably. It argues that in order to develop a fair accession package for Afghanistan, the following commitments must be made by those involved in the process:
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  No room for humanitarianism in 3D policies: have forcible humanitarian interventions and integrated approaches lost their way?

  Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, 2007

  Following the commencement of the US-led war on terror, there have been increasing attempts to integrate development, diplomacy and defence through so-called "3D" mechanisms. This paper reviews the evolution of this integrated approach, the responses of humanitarian and development organisations, and  the difficulties encountered by its application i
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  Understanding state-building and local government in Afghanistan

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007

  State-building has emerged has a key agenda of development aid, particularly in post-conflict contexts. This paper explores the important role of local government reform in the state-building process. It attempts to look at initiatives in the re-establishing of local government linked to the central government in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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  Political finance in post-conflict societies

  International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2006

  In post-conflict situations political finance system must ensure limitations on, support for and accountability of funding for political parties, candidates and other electoral participants.
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  Between Hope and Fear Intimidation and Attacks against Women in Public Life in Afghanistan

  2004

  Regional military factions and religious conservative leaders, as well as the Taliban and other insurgent forces, have limited Afghan women's participation in society through death threats, harassment, and physical attacks. Women's rights activists have also been inadequately protected by the central government and international peacekeeping forces.
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  From Rhetoric to Reality: Afghan Women on the Agenda for Peace

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005

  To what extent have Afghan women made significant gains between 2001 and 2005? This report provides an overview of mechanisms introduced by the international community to promote women's participation, including the new Ministry for Women's Affairs, political quotas, and donor aid and assistance programmes, and also examines the contributions of Afghan women themselves.

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