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    Conflict over forests and land in Asia

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2010
    Tenure and claims over forests and land are highly contested throughout Asia where states retain full ownership of land. Competition for land for investment, resource extraction, and conservation is becoming more common. The conflict takes place between local communities and indigenous peoples and external Government agencies and developers.
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    Protecting the environment during armed conflict

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
    This report seeks to identify gaps and weaknesses in the current international legal framework for protecting the environment during armed conflict.
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    Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009
    Armed conflict within nations has had disastrous humanitarian consequences throughout much of the world. This paper seeks to undertake the first comprehensive examination of the potential impact of global climate change on armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Uncharted territory: land, conflict, and humanitarian action

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2009
    This Policy Brief seeks to create awareness of the importance of land in a humanitarian crisis. The author argues that the end of a prolonged armed conflict will frequently see a large proportion of the population claiming or reclaiming access to land and land based resources with important implications for return, recovery, and reintegration processes. Key messages include:
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    Troubled waters: Palestinians denied fair access to water

    Amnesty International, 2009
    Lack of access to adequate, safe and clean water has been a longstanding problem for the Palestinian population of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Though exacerbated in recent years by the impact of drought-induced water scarcity, this report argues that the problem arises principally as a result of Israel’s discriminatory water policies and practices against this population.
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    Religion versus ethnicity as a source of mobilisation: Are there differences?

    Microcon, 2009
    The root causes of most violent conflicts lie in economic and political factors and inequalities of various types but usually, people are mobilised by ethnic or religious identities. This paper explores the differences and similarities between the use of religion and ethnicity in mobilising identities for conflict.
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    Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

    United Nations Foundation, 2008
    This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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    Changing roles, shifting risks: livelihood impacts of disarmament in Karamoja, Uganda

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
    This report examines the role of disarmament policies in changes in livelihood systems of the population in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda.  The following topics are covered: Disarmament and human rights abuses Perceptions of disarmament as a goal in and of itself Impacts of disarmament on livelihoods Impacts of disarmament on se
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    Faced with a gun, what can you do? War and the militarisation of mining in eastern Congo

    Global Witness, 2009
    This paper states that the militarisation of mining in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is prolonging the armed conflict which has been tearing the country apart for more than 12 years.
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    Burma's forgotten conflicts

    Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/ German Institute for International and Security Affairs, 2009
    This paper states that the focus of the public on the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi is obscuring the tension that is brewing between the central government in the heartland inhabited by the Burman ethnic majority and the armed organizations of ethnic minorities that control territories along the border.

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