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  The Colombian Land Restitution Programme – Process, results and challenges, with special emphasis on women

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2014

  The majority of the more than 5 million IDPs in Colombia have lost their land due the conflict. This report describes the ongoing process of land restitution. The process is slow, and few want to return to the countryside. Women are given special attention, and are registered as equal owners to men. The land restitution process also discloses several challeng
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  Power to protect? Participation in decentralized conservation management: the case of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  This report is based on a case study of participation in and decentralized management of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) in north-eastern Nepal.
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  Living conditions of displaced persons and host communities in urban Goma, DRC

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014

  Goma has been a central point for the reception of displaced persons over the last 20 years of conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following significant waves of arrivals in 2012 and 2013, due to conflict with the M23 – a militia active in North Kivu from early 2012 to late 2013 – 1 camps around the city were grossly overcrowded.
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  Conflicting dilemmas: economic growth, natural resources and indigenous populations in South America

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  South American countries have experienced impressive economic growth in the last two decades. This growth, based on natural resource exports and increasing natural resource extraction, is largely dependent on the expansion of the economies of Brazil and China.
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  Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014

  IDMC’s latest Global Estimates report shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years, the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced during the year.
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  The risk of disaster-induced displacement in south-east Asia and China

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014

  With a focus on countries in south-east Asia and China, this is IDMC’s fourth regional study on disaster-related displacement risk.
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  Unfinished business: Kenya’s efforts to address displacement and land issues in Coast Region

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014

  The report analyses displacement in Coast region and identifies tensions over land tenure and poor land governance as key triggers, and obstacles to durable solutions. It provides examples of land issues underlying displacement caused by generalised violence, disasters and human rights violations, and establishes a close link between tenure insecurity and forced evictions.
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  Drugs, (dis)order and agrarian change: the political economy of drugs and its relevance to international drug policy

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  n May 2014 the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) hosted a workshop, co-funded by NOREF and Christian Aid, designed to facilitate dialogue between scholars working on the political economy of drugs, conflict and development in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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  Food securities and social conflict

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. And at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011, as protests erupted first in Tunisia and then in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt, the price of food was widely seen as a significant factor underlying unrest and the train of events of the Arab Spring.
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  P for plunder: Morocco's exports of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara, 2012 & 2013

  2014

  All life on the planet, and so all agricultural production, depends on phosphorus, P. That element is found in phosphate rock and turned into fertilizers. For the people of Western Sahara, their P does not grow into benefits. Rather the contrary.

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