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    NGOs and state in Palestine: negotiating boundaries

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    A publication of a report by the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator (UNSCO) in the Occupied Territories in May 1999, triggered a new confrontation between the PNA government, and Palestinian NGOs .
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    Transition without transformation: civil society and the transition seesaw in Kenya

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Kenya is experiencing a process of multiple transitions whose elements are for the most part incongruent and counter-productive. The author argues that the most pronounced tension in this process is that between the universal (western) modes of democratic transition and the ethno-traditional modes that are denigrated as illiberal and undemocratic.
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    Making a killing: the business of war

    Center for Public Integrity, Washington, 2002
    This paper argues that the superpower ideological divide that once gave a strange sort of order to the world’s wars, has now been replaced by entrepreneurs, selling arms or military expertise and support, and companies, whose drilling and mining in some of the hottest spots often prolong conflict and instability.The military downsizing that followed the end of the Cold War flooded the market wi
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    Reflections on globalisation, security and 9/11

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 2002
    This working paper argues that globalisation provides a number of conceptual insights to assist understanding of the contemporary security agenda following 9/11.
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    A bridge too far: aid agencies and the military in humanitarian response

    Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2002
    This paper aims to clarify the key issues of the debate over the roles of humanitarian actors and military forces and the relationship between them.
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    Adult wars, child soldiers

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2002
    This report is an effort to draw attention to the reality of child soldiers in the East Asia and Pacific region, to demonstrate the need for an urgent response.
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    Precious resources: adolescents in the reconstruction of Sierra Leone

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2002
    This paper reports the findings of over 600 interviews with adolescents and youth in Sierra Leone in April and May 2002. Many of the interviews were conducted by the young people themselves. The perception of Sierra Leone's youth is that to achieve peace, degradation and instability must be eliminated from their communities and their everyday lives.
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    Unseen millions: the catastrophe of internal displacement in Colombia. Children and adolescents at risk

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2002
    This paper reports the findings of the delegation of the Women's Commission to Columbia to investigate the conditions in which internally displaced children and adolescents are living.About half of the displaced population in Colombia are children and adolescents and suffer and witness violence, sexual exploitation and rape.
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    An end to conflict diamonds?

    ActionAid International, 2001
    This ActionAid report introduces the background to the Kimberley Process, whereby diamond exporting and important companies agree to abide by a certification scheme that aims to exclude illicit, conflict diamonds from the world market.The author gives details of the countries that have signed up and describes what he sees as the positive aspects of the Kimberley process agreements.
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    UNDP corporate strategy on HIV/AIDS

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    This document provides an overview of UNDP's strategy to fight HIV/AIDS. Their stated objectives are:to prevent new infectionimprove care provisionreduce vulnerability of the most at risk groupsmitigate social and economic impacts.The document outlines the main categories by which it defines its country level response and the main services it offers.

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