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    Peacekeeping and peacebuilding in post-conflict environments: a critical analysis of the UN approach in Timor-Leste, Liberia and Nepal

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2009
    This paper seeks to evaluate the UN approach to peacekeeping and peacebuilding in post-conflict environments. This will be done by looking at three case-studies; the UN missions in Timor-Leste, Nepal and Liberia.
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    Southeast Asia in the 2010’S: opportunities and challenges for India

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    The Southeast Asia Research Programme (SEARP) at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the SAEA Group Singapore, organized a seminar on 5th March 2010 to assess Southeast Asia as a region in the coming decade with a special emphasis on India's options and challenges. The seminar addressed two major themes.
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    Special Report - ethnicity, separatism and terrorism in Xinjiang: China's triple conundrum

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    Massive investments, continuous political harangues and high propaganda have all failed to deliver the much-espoused ‘harmonious’, ‘stable’ and ‘integrative’ development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The achievement of such a vision, outlined in the Chinese government’s White Papers (2003 and 2009), seems far from being realized.
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    A stitch in time would have saved niNe: operationalising the African Standby Force

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    The African Standby Force (ASF) was envisaged as a tool for timely response and intervention in post-cold war conflicts that were ravaging the continent. Initial attempts in 1995 and 1997 to bring the force into operation stalled, but renewed efforts were undertaken in 2003, when the ASF Policy Framework set timelines for the operationalisation of the force by 2010.
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    A standardised police roster system is critical for the African Standby Force

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    Contemporary peacekeeping operations necessitate an extensive range of expertise, and meeting the demand for police officers with the requisite expertise for the increasingly complex mandates of peacekeeping has become a great challenge. Consequently, the demand for enhanced systems to facilitate the recruitment and selection of police experts has also increased.
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    The Geneva Conventions and South African law

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    South Africa’s adoption of the Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Act, 2012 (Act 8 of 2012) (Geneva Conventions Act) comes as a welcome addition to the country’s legal landscape.
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    Fighting for peace: offensive intervention to make peace support possible

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    There is a reasonably general understanding and acceptance of peacekeeping as a sometimes necessary task; less so of peace enforcement; and hardly any understanding or¤acceptance at all of offensive military interventions.
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    SA’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding experiences in the DRC: lessons learnt

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This policy brief analyses South Africa’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding engagements in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It¤ identifies lessons learnt that could inform the policy and programming development of the envisaged South African Development Partnership Agency (SADPA).
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    Burundi: missed opportunities for South African post-conflict development and peacebuilding?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This policy brief analyses South Africa’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding engagements in Burundi and identifies lessons that could inform the policy and programming development of the envisaged South African Development Partnership Agency (SADPA).
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    South Africa and South Sudan: lessons for post-conflict development and peacebuilding partnerships

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This policy brief analyses South Africa’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding in South Sudan. South Africa has fraternal relations with South Sudan stemming from the ties of the liberation struggles of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).

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