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    Confronting the ‘oil curse’: state–civil society roles in managing Ghana’s oil find

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Ghana discovered large oil deposits at Cape Three Points, on its western coast, in 2007.With the discovery of additional oil it is anticipated that the oil sector will significantly boost the economy, which in turn will have a positive developmental impact.
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    Considering the relevance of peacebuilding within external interventions in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    Critiques of peacebuilding have generally fallen within one of two categories – those critical of programming and impact but still believing that these flaws can be cured through increased expertise, technical skills and improved operationalisation and those critical of the conceptual validity of peacebuilding as a function of the power dynamics of the liberal world order.
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    Power and influence in Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    Africa has been peripheral in approaches to international relations that have tended to focus on so-called ‘great powers’ or the ‘states that make the most difference.
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    Homicide Monitor

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    The Homicide Monitor is a data-driven data visualisation tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and dynamics of homicidal violence in an interactive and accessible manner. Since homicidal violence is concentrated in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Monitor includes additional information at the national, state and city scale.
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    A climate of conflicts?

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2015
    Political violence correlates strongly with climate: Civil conflict risk is seven to ten times higher in dry and tropical climates than in continental climate zones. Yet, there is little evidence that climatic variability and change are important in understanding this pattern.
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    A horizon scan of environmental drivers of poverty

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based study of the environmental drivers of poverty, based on a review of peer-reviewed and grey literature for the last 10 years. The major non-climate environmental drivers of poverty are identified: biodiversity loss (at the global scale) and a variety of pollution and resource degradation issues at smaller scales.
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    Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls: 2013 Commission on the Status of Women Agreed Conclusions

    UN Women, 2013
    In 2013, the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) reached a historic global consensus that discrimination and violence against women and girls have no place in today’s world, and agreed on a comprehensive blueprint of actions to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.
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    The impact of crop raiding by wild animals in communities surrounding the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

    Academic Journals, 2014
    Crop damage is a serious source of conflict in communities adjacent to protected areas. Data on crop raiding were collected through questionnaires in villages at different distances from the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.
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    Women Can't Wait! Beijing+20 edition featuring Sarah Jones

    Equality Now, 2015
    On March 12th, at the 59th sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) in New York, Equality Now and UN Women presented a 20th anniversary edition of Women Can't Wait! The performance piece is based on their long running "Words & Deeds" campaign to end sex discrimination in the law.
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    WILPF Report on the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

    PeaceWomen: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 2015
    Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) delegates from all over the world converged on New York for the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) to advocate for a transformative and sustainable Post-2015 development agenda that addresses the root causes of violence and war, and integrates issues of disarmament, women’s human rights, and women,

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