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    Better land use, better future for all: partnering with civil society to enhance sustainable land management in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    Land degradation is a serious problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, where up to two-thirds of the productive land area is reported to be degraded to some extent.  Local communities suffer the most from the degradation of their land and they are therefore fundamental to the widespread adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) techniques.
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    Myths and mining: the reality of resource governance in Africa

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    In Africa, mining activities are undertaken by private foreign entities, which pay taxes to the state. However, mining activities are not contributing as much as they should to national economies. Despite the increase in productivity and profits, the real benefits of mining have yet to be felt by the majority of the people, especially mining communities.
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    Building constituency for the realisation of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV)

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    Conference proceedings from two day constituency building workshop organised in Johannesburg, 2-3 May 2014 by Third World Network-Africa and OSISA/SARW, attended by trade unionists, CSO activists and journalists from Southern Africa.
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    Global and regional mechanisms for governing the resource curse in Africa

    Southern African Resource Watch, 2014
    International norms around natural resource governance have proliferated inthe face of civil wars and feeble state institutions in Africa. These norms have been captured in institutions such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Publish What You Pay, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), and the African Mining Vision (AMV).
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    Cyber war preparedness, cyberspace arms control and the United States

    China Institute of International Studies, 2014
    The cyber-attacks that Estonia, Georgia and Iran suffered as well as the U.S. PRISM spying scandal exposed in 2013 have demonstrated that there is increasing difficulty in maintaining order and security in cyberspace.
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    Navigating the Gulf: China’s balancing strategy

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014
    Due to China’s growing energy needs that stem from its unrelenting economic development, Beijing stresses the importance of maintaining a continuous supply of energy - particularly oil - to maintain its impressive economic growth.
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    The teaching of Pashto: identity versus employment

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pashto was associated with Pashtun identity in British times, this was seen as an anti-British and antinon-Muslim tendency. It was anti-British because the British official policy was to favour the teaching of Urdu. It was anti non-Muslim, at least in the eyes of Hindus and Sikhs, because they felt that their language and culture would be under threat.
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    Anatomy of ethnic militancy: case of Karachi, Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    The crux of the problem is that the Pakistan is facing a constitutional crisis. The 1973 Constitution was framed in the aftermath of the rupture of Islamabad-Dacca relations and the secession of East Pakistan. The constitution paid considerable attention to Centre-province and inter-provincial relations.
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    Operation Likofi: Police killings and enforced disappearances in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Human Rights Watch, 2014
    On November 15, 2013, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo launched “Operation Likofi,” a police operation aimed at ending crime by members of organized criminal gangs known as “kuluna.” The kuluna had been responsible for a surge of armed robberies and other serious criminal acts across the country’s capital, Kinshasa, since 2006.
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    Resource rents, institutions and violent civil conflicts

    2013
    Natural resources have been blamed for inducing slow growth and sparking civil conflicts and violence. This paper first develops a model to account for the hazard of armed civil conflicts as a manifestation of the natural resource curse which is mediated by the quality of both economic and political institutions.

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