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    The U.S response to precarious states: tentative progress and remaining obstacles to coherence

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    This paper evaluates the U.S. policy response to fragile states. In tracing the origins of contemporary U.S. foreign policy interests, it highlights changing threat perceptions in the wake of 9/11 and perceived lessons of post-conflict difficulties in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also looks at the preventive efforts to reform and stabilise states at risk of failure.
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    Political party assessment: Afghanistan

    Netherlands Institute for Muliparty Democracy, 2006
    This report provides an overview the current state of Afghanistan’s emerging political parties. It particularly focuses on parties represented in the National Assembly and discusses the political identity, organisational strength, internal democracy, and electioneering capacity of the 25 parties that were examined in this research. Some of the key findings include:
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    Rethinking insurgency

    Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, 2007
    This report argues that the United States military must rethink its counter-insurgency methods. It claims that current strategies in Afghanistan and Iraq are based on Cold War era nationalistic insurgencies, rather than the complex conflicts which characterise the post-Cold War security environment.
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    Education under attack: A global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials, and institutions

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2007
    The deliberate use of force on educational institutions, students, teachers, academics, education trade unionists, education officials are on the rise globally. The worst-affected are countries that are witnessing ongoing conflict.
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    id21 insights, issue No. 66: Retaining legitimacy in fragile states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The term ‘fragile states’ refers to states where globalisation and liberalisation have led to high levels of poverty and inequality, low levels of state capacity, vulnerability to internal and external shocks and the potential for domestic and international conflict.
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    Uncounted and Discounted: a Secondary Data Research Project on Violence against Women in Afghanistan

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    To date there has been little research regarding the nature and extent of violence against women in Afghanistan. To address this gap, The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Afghanistan analysed data collected by service organisations and agencies working throughout the country.
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    The impact of conflict on infant immunisation coverage in Afghanistan: a countrywide study 2000-2003

    International Journal of Health Geographics, BioMed Central, 2007
    This paper assesses the impact of conflict and resource availability on the provision of infant immunisation services. It evaluates the progress and changes in immunisation coverage in Afghanistan using data from 331 districts across 7 regions of Afghanistan between 2000 and 2003.
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    Suicide bombing operations

    Gulf Research Centre, 2007
    This document analyses the record of suicide bombing that took place in different parts of the world during the last decades. It particularly focuses on case studies of attacks in Iraq, Chechnya, Sri-Lanka, Afghanistan and Palestine.
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    Rebuilding health services in post-Taliban Afghanistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Afghanistan’s health services were left in chaos after years of conflict. Neither the public nor private sectors could function effectively. There was a severe shortage of health staff, and infrastructure was either grossly inadequate or absent. What progress has been made in the past five years to reinstate effective health service delivery?
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    Last in line, last in school. How donors are failing children in conflict-affected fragile states

    International Save the Children Alliance, 2007
    Conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS) are home to half of the world’s out-of-school population – 39 million children – yet receive only one fifth of total education aid.

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