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    Tackling gun violence in India

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This rapid response briefing covers topics such as emerging trends of growing gun-related violence in urban India, lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, the relationship between gun violence and poverty and implications for policies and programmes dealing with gun-related crime in Indian cities.
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    Psychosocial adjustment and mental health in former child soldiers – a systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future research

    2015
    At any given moment, an estimated 300,000 children under 18 years of age are involved in armed forces or armed groups in more than 87 countries. This article reviews the available quantitative research on psychosocial adjustment and mental health among children (age less than 18) associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) – commonly referred to as child soldiers.
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    The US-China cyber-agreement: implications for India

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The aftermath of Chinese President Xi Jinping's 1 September 2015 visit to the United States was marked by an abundance of discourse on, interalia, the merits of the US-China cyber-security agreement.
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    2015 Global Hunger Index: armed conflict and the challenge of hunger

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries.
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    Effectiveness of community-led security mechanisms in urban Eastern Africa: a research agenda

    Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, 2015
    In many African states, even in those states not afflicted by conflicts from the beginning, in reality, the state never managed to impose a monopoly on security. Moreover, in many cases the African states never developed ‘public’ security systems to protect all citizens without discrimination. The public police remained largely in the service of the elite in power.
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    Territorial disputes: can Japan and Russia reconcile?

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The Ukraine crisis may have effectively ended the rapprochement between the US and Russia, and in turn affecting relations such as those of Japan and Russia. Prior to this crisis, and the subsequent Western sanctions on Russia, Tokyo and Moscow had been reaching out to each other, and hope flickered for a resolution to the territorial dispute over the Northern Territories or Southern Kurils.
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    Counter-terrorism in South Asia: new threats call for deeper cooperation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    With foreign forces drawing down in Afghanistan, there is an inevitable loss of focus on the threat of terrorism in the highly vulnerable region of South Asia. But almost every country in the region, barring Bhutan, continues to confront the challenges of terrorism and
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    China in Afghanistan: balancing power projection and minimal intervention

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    As it was foreseen, the initial months following the start of the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) withdrawal from Afghanistan were harsh for the Afghan government and civilians. In April 2015, the Taliban launched their annual spring offensive ‘Azm’ - their most elaborate attack since they were overturned from power in 2001.
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    Thinking outside the box: exploring the critical roles of sports, arts, and culture in preventing violent extremism

    Hedayah, 2015
    Unlike traditional law-enforcement and military responses to terrorism and conflict, countering violent extremism (CVE) efforts take a preventive approach aimed at reducing the appeal and recruiting potential of extremist groups.
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    Hedayah

    Hedayah is an international institution for training, dialogue, collaboration, and research to counter violent extremism in all of its forms and manifestations, in support of long-term, global efforts

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