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  Nigeria ten years on: injustice and violence haunt the oil Delta

  Amnesty International, 2005

  This report by Amnesty International calls for a need to establish universally recognised standards applicable to international companies.
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  Diamonds, foreign aid, and the uncertain prospects for post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This article examines the external and internal dimensions and resources of post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone. Foreign aid represents the bulk of the external sources of support, though its imminent reduction is a significant concern.
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  Exploring religious conflict

  RAND Corporation, 2005

  This report summarises the proceedings from workshop that brought intelligence and religious analysts together to assess religious motivations in international politics and discover what may cause religiously rooted violence, and how states have sought to take advantage of or contain religious violence.
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  The Iraq quagmire: the mounting costs of war and the case for bringing home the troops

  Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 2005

  This report takes a comprehensive look at the human, economic, social, security, environmental, and human rights costs of the war in Iraq and the ensuing occupation. It then provides what it calls an exit strategy: a plan to bring the troops home and internationalise the peace, arguing that instead of helping make Iraq safer and more stable, U.S.
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  How much weight for military capabilities? Africa's new peace and security architecture and the role of external actors

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2005

  Peace and security have become a priority issue for the African continent itself, but also for the international community. The author argues that past events clearly indicate that mechanisms put in place by African nations themselves (e.g.
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  Canadian energy and mining companies navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st century

  Ethical Funds Company, 2005

  With a particular focus on the impact of mining and energy companies in conflict countries, this paper examines the body of International law regarding human rights violations.It highlights the following points:American, British, French, and Canadian companies have been implicated in crimes when contracting host country security forces to protect corporate assets and/or after building t
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  Privatisation of conflict, security and war

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2005

  The paper assesses the general trend towards privatisation, in the developed as well as the developing world, where even high politics is increasingly performed by, or outsourced to, non-state actors.
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  Paying for protection: the Freeport mine and the Indonesian security forces

  Global Witness, 2005

  This report examines the controversy surrounding the “Freeport” (Freeport McMoRan, Freeport Indonesia) mine’s relationship with Indonesian state security forces in the conflict region of Papua. The Indonesian military has a history of atrocities against civilians and is known to have been involved in corruption and illegal business activities, as have the police.
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  Under-mining peace: the explosive trade in cassiterite in Eastern DRC

  Global Witness, 2005

  The report investigates the illicit trade in cassiterite (tin ore) which has fuelled conflict in the Eastern parts of the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC).
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  Conflict diamonds and the African resource curse

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2003

  By outlining four diamond-fuelled wars in Africa, this chapter brings to light Africa’s resource curse and asks whether Africa really needs its nature.

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