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  Peacemaking in Asia and the Pacific: Women's Participation, Perspectives and Priorities

  Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2011

  Ensuring women's fair representation and diverse contributions to peacemaking remains a major challenge. This publication explores the reasons for women’s under-representation in peace processes, both in terms of their participation and the substantive gender content of agreements.
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  From resolution to reality: lessons learned from Afghanistan, Nepal and Uganda on women's participation in peacebuilding and post-conflict governance

  CARE International, 2010

  UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325, 2000) was hailed a victory for women’s rights activists around the world. The adoption of the resolution represented a significant step forward in recognising the strategic contribution that women can make to peace and security policy, as well as acknowledging the increasing use of violence against women as a tactic of war.
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  Nepal’s political rites of passage

  International Crisis Group, 2010

  Nepal’s transition from war to peace seems to be chaotic and many have warned of impending anarchy entailing collapse of the social order and the fragmentation of the nation. This, however, is not the case because the transition, though messy and confusing, is not anarchic due to the existence of some form of order within the political change.
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  ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

  Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010

  Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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  Demand-driven governance: an analysis of the interventions of international aid agencies

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2009

  This working paper reviews demand-driven governance as a set of principles which have characterised aid and development interventions in certain post-conflict contexts, using Nepal as a case study. 
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  Aid and violence: development policies and conflict in Nepal

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009

  This paper aims to illustrate how aid policies and conflict are intertwined. It analyses the development/conflict nexus in Nepal over the last decade and includes discussions with aid agencies, donors, and analysts in Kathmandu.
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  Governance and citizenship from below: Views of poor and excluded groups and their vision for a New Nepal

  Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2009

  Latent and violent unrest has plagued Nepal since the process of parliamentary politics was reintroduced in 1991 after 50 years of monarchical rule. This document focuses on grassroots experiences and understandings of governance and citizenship, and the implications of these for state building in post-conflict Nepal.
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  Context-sensitive engagement: lessons learned from Swiss experiences in South Asia for aid effectiveness in fragile scenarios

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2008

  This paper was written for the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana and critically assesses Switzerland’s long-term experiences in South Asia particularly in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The authors evaluate the work conducted in these countries, and distil lessons for engagement in fragile, conflict countries.
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  'Financial Peacebuilding' - impacts of the Nepalese conflict on the financial sector and its potential for peacebuilding

  International Relations and Security Network, 2008

  This working paper looks at options of how the local financial sector may contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding, taking the specific example of Nepal.
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  The applicability of the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations

  IDL Group, 2008

  The Paris Declaration sets out an overall framework of agreement and structure of mutual accountability between aid-receiving countries and their development partners to give substance to the consensus model of “country-led” development. This thematic study acts as a contribution to Accra discussions.

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