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    Conflict briefing notes: Conflict briefing no. 27, August 2015

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2015
    In Nigeria, there were improvements in counter-insurgency initiatives in August, 2015. The diplomatic visits to Cameroon, Chad, and Niger and the decision of Nigeria to lead the Multi-national Task Force (MNTF) led to improved regional coordination and attendant success in the fight against Jamaatu Ahlis-Sunna Liddaawati Wal Jihad (JAS).
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    Security and governance in the Great Lakes Region: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2015
    The Great Lakes region – focusing largely around Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Uganda – is central not only to Africa’s geography but also to continental security and governance.
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    The economic determinants of political Islam: an empirical investigation of the Arab Spring in Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    This paper empirically studies the voting outcomes of the first post-revolution presidential elections in Egypt. In light of the strong success of Islamist candidate Mohamed Morsi, it identifies three dimensions which can affect voting outcomes: human capital stock, wealth and employment structure. The author finds that less educated, poorer and more unequal districts support more Islamists.
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    Escaping the repertoire of election crisis: prospects and challenges of the evolving infrastructure for peace in Côte d’Ivoire

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2015
    As a conflict prevention and management tool, national peace infrastructures have largely contributed to peace and security in countries where they have been established and adopted.
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    The center can hold: towards a regional approach to combating West Africa’s terrorists

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2015
    Terrorist activities have assumed an alarming dimension in several West African countries. Various measures by states and international actors have achieved minimal success in the fight against terrorists.
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    The dynamics of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia

    Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 2015
    The need to establish a proper security structure in the Asia-Pacific Region is often underlined by Western political observers. But the chances for such a structure appear to be
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    Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

    The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation established in 1995 on the initiative of the Swiss Confederation. It offers:
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    The chimera of global convergence

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-­historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.
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    Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research (NCCR)

    Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research (NCCR) is a non-profit, independent think-tank institution.
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    African emerging powers

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014
    Once considered almost solely a site of poverty and conflict, sub-Saharan Africa and perceptions of it have gradually been changing. Today, African states have become important actors in international affairs, with a number considered as emerging powers.

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