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    Linking India’s Northeast with Southeast Asia: significance of internal connectivity & backward integration

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2011
    Why is India’s Northeast (NE) region not able to gain the benefits from the growing India-Southeast Asia trade alliances? This paper clarifies that connectivity through the Northeastern states became a priority for India’s foreign policy in 2003, providing a new dimension to the Look East Policy (LEP).
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    National counter terrorism centre for India: understanding the debate

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    Like many other issues in these troubled times, the proposal for establishing a National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) to coordinate the anti-terrorism efforts of the Indian Union and its states has become a plebiscitary dispute. NCTC would function under the Intelligence Bureau and undertake threat assessments for dissemination to the union and state governments.
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    Enhancing the governance of Africa’s oil sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Empirical studies have shown that oil-dependent countries are more likely to suffer from civil wars motivated by ‘grievances’ or ‘greed’ — and this is particularly true for states in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Off track? Findings from South Africa’s first APRM implementation report

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    This paper summarises and analyses the First Report on the Implementation of South Africa’s African Peer Review Mechanism Programme of Action (Implementation Report). Although the Implementation Report was initially praised at the African Union Summit in January 2009, a closer look reveals many of its faults and deficiencies.
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    Red flags ignored: governance values and practices in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Values are essential to set up normative standards that are indicative of the qualities of governance. This paper describes and analyses trends of governance values and practices in Africa using secondary data.
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    APRM and the media: getting the story right

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is a voluntary scheme established in 2003 to improve member states’ governance collectively and individually through following best practices and examples set by others. To date 33 African states have signed up, 17 of which have completed their first review. Signatory states undertake to be reviewed internally and externally.
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    Rudderless & drowning in tears: the Rohingyas of Myanmar

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    With the 1978 ‘ethnic cleansing’ propaganda targeted against the Rohingya community, Myanmar, has witnessed one of the most devastated large-scale sectarian strife’s in history. This paper wonders whether the Rohingyas will continue to remain as, what has been termed by the UN - one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
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    Challenging the reconciliation process: Myanmar’s ethnic divide and conflicts

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Myanmar, ethnically, is one of the most diverse countries in Asia. Ethnic groups are divided in terms of religion, language, strength, ideology and separated geographically in distant places. The country has been ravaged by a civil war which has lasted for more than six decades soon after independence till date.
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    The African Peer Review Mechanism at country level: views from Kenya

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2011
    In Kenya, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) began well. In 2006 the country became the third African state to be peer reviewed and thus one of the APRM pioneers. But neither government nor civil society championed the implementation of the National Programme of Action (NPoA). Progress reports were prepared but reviews delayed at the continental level.
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    Brazil’s South–South co-operation strategies: from foreign policy to public policy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Since 2003 Brazil’s foreign policy has shifted from a need for credibility (adherence to international regimes, respect for norms, greater proximity to the West) towards a search for political autonomy based on regionalism and new coalitions.

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