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    Contested politics in Africa: the state, identity and resources

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2008
    This brief examines the state, identity politics, and the struggle for resources in Africa. It contends that identity politics obscures the real reason behind exclusionary practices, namely the struggle for and access to resources.
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    From violence to voting: war and political participation in Uganda

    Households in Conflict Network, 2008
    What is the political legacy of violent conflict? This paper presents evidence for a link between war, violence and increased individual political participation and leadership among former combatants and victims of violence, and uses this link to understand the deeper determinants of individual political behaviour.
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    Using quantitative and qualitative models to forecast instability

    United States Institute of Peace, 2008
    For most of the post–World War II period, policymakers and intelligence agencies have relied on experts to make qualitative judgments regarding the risk of instability or violent changes in their areas of study.
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    Between paternalism and hybrid partnership: the emerging UN and Africa relationship in peace operations

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    This paper analyses the extent to which a new hybrid partnership exists between the African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN). It particularly focuses on the establishment of a hybrid UN-AU force to try and stabilise the situation in Darfur, Sudan.
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    Security, the War on Terror, and ODA

    North-South Institute, 2007
    Is aid now used as a tool to meet geo-political ends? Has the focus shifted away from poverty-alleviation to ‘ensuring’ that, in respect of the War on Terror (WOT), recipient governments do not become unstable and a breeding ground for ‘terrorists’?
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    A climate of conflict

    SIDA Studies, 2008
    Climate change is upon us and its physical effects have started to unfold. This report takes such findings, expressed in the Forth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, as its starting point and looks at the social and human consequences that are likely to ensue – particularly the risks of conflict and instability.
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    The Arab Reform Initiative

    The Arab Reform Initiative is a network of independent Arab research and policy institutes, with partners from the United States and Europe.
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    Security sector reform in the Arab region: challenges to developing an indigenous agenda

    The Arab Reform Initiative, 2007
    Argues that Western practitioners developing and promoting security sector reform (SSR) in the Arab world tend to emphasise its ‘technical aspects’, in the hope that de-politicisation will make it more acceptable to both Western donor governments and Arab recipient countries.
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    The Pentagon and global development: making sense of the DoD’s expanding role

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    One of the most striking trends in US foreign aid policy is the surging role of the Department of Defense (DoD). The Pentagon now accounts for over 20 percent of U.S. official development assistance (ODA). DoD has also expanded its provision of non-ODA assistance, including training and equipping of foreign military forces in fragile states.
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    Sierra Leone: reconstructing a patrimonial state

    Fride, 2007
    This brief article traces the causes of the conflict in Sierra Leone back to the British colonial political system. It describes some options taken by donors in their post-conflict assistance and investigates how these approaches touched upon the underlying power-structures and mechanisms of social exclusion.

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