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    Gender and Local-Level Decision-Making: Findings from a Case Study in Mazar-Sherif

    2004
    Efforts to support women's participation in Afghan society since the fall of the Taleban have struggled to have an impact. This research paper explores the extent to which gender norms, roles and responsibilities in household decision-making in two neighbourhoods in the city of Mazar-e Sharif can account for this.
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    What is the role of international donors in conflict and post-conflict situations?

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    This report documents the proceedings of a UK Department for International Development conference on development work in conflict and post-conflict situations in South Asia. The conference brought together representatives from national governments, parliamentarians and civil society orgnaisations from Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and international donors supporting these countries.
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    Afghanistan - an assessment of conflict and actors in Faryab province to establish a basis for increased Norwegian civilian involvement.

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    Norway has had an extensive development assistance programme in Afghanistan since 2001, as well as being involved in military activities as a member of NATO. In 2006, a decision was taken to channel more of Norway’s resources to Faryab province, in northern Afghanistan, where Norwegian forces are concentrated and where Norway heads the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).
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    Beyond anarchy in Somaliland and Afghanistan?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Since the attacks on the USA on September 11th 2001, the weakening and re-building of states has ranked high on the political and research agenda.Mainstream models of state-building assume that state legitimacy can be established and collapse avoided through:
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    Making justice sector reform work

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The legal system and the judiciary have very important roles to play in maintaining or restoring legitimacy in fragile states. Injustice, deeply embedded in both the legal system and a partial or ineffective judicial system, tends to weaken state legitimacy and sometimes contributes to the eruption of armed conflict.
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    Good intentions do not prevent conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    When we speak of the international community we think of states, the United Nations, development agencies, or non-government organisations. Yet other groups and individuals are often as relevant to development: multinational and local companies and private security firms.
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    Bridging security and development:People-centred approaches needed

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Strategies for securing peace that have worked in Afghanistan are unlikely to work in Iraq or Somalia. Yet, interventions by international organisations and countries in crisis areas continue to follow the same formula: first condemnation, then sanctions, then military action.
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    Risking civil war by promoting democracy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Promoting democracy abroad may seem like a good way to promote peace. Mature, stable democracies have not fought wars against each other, and they rarely experience civil wars. But the path to a democratic peace is not always smooth.
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    Retaining Legitimacy in Fragile States

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Globalisation, liberalisation, and the withdrawal of external support from Cold War alliances have placed enormous strains on some developing countries - best described as 'fragile states'. These are states with high levels of poverty and inequality and low levels of state capacity.
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    Conflict prevention is cost-effective

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Preventing conflicts could be more beneficial and cost-effective. However, preventive action may be unsuccessful or only delay the start of violence. In some cases, predicted conflicts would not have taken place even in the absence of preventive action. How can the international community plan cost-effective conflict prevention activities?

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