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    Education under occupation: Palestinian children talk about life and school

    Save the Children Fund, 2002
    This study describes the results of focus groups carried out in four of the worst affected Palestinian areas.
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    The impact of conflict on children in occupied Palestinian territory and Israel

    Child Rights Information Network, 2002
    This report is a call for immediate action to protect Palestinian and Israeli children. Children represent approximately 15 percent of all individuals killed since 2000 in the violence between Israelis and Palestinians. The children are also suffering serious physical and psychosocial effects from the escalation of violent conflict.
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    Combat AIDS: HIV and the world's armed forces

    Panos AIDS Programme, 2002
    The paper shows that soldiers are significantly more likely to contract HIV than civilians. Soldiers live in an enclosed society where masculine values predominate and where stress, boredom, alcohol use and sexual activity may be high. Accustomed to taking risks in their profession, they may be more inclined to take part in risky sexual behaviour as well.
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    Democracy in Nigeria: continuing dialogue(s) for nation-building

    International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2000
    This assessment report entitled is the product of an elaborate consultative process conducted by 42 Nigerian resource persons and contains concrete recommendations to strengthen the process towards establishing lasting democracy in Nigeria.
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    Greed and grievance in civil war

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002
    Looks at the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. The authors test a `greed’ theory focusing on the ability to finance rebellion, against a `grievance’ theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political repression and inequality.Their model finds that greed considerably outperforms grievance as an explanation of the causes of civil war .
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    The hidden costs of ethnic conflict: decomposing trends in educational outcomes of young Kosovars

    World Bank, 2002
    This paper examines the impact of ethnic segmentation in education on educational outcomes between 1991 and the late 1990s when the Albanian Kosovar population received education services in an informal system parallel to the official one.The authors find that the last decade of ethnic conflict has claimed a substantial toll on the educational outcomes of the Albanian Kosovars.
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    Education, poverty, political violence and terrorism: is there a causal connection?

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2002
    The paper investigates whether there is a causal link between poverty or low education and participation in politically motivated violence and terrorist activities.The authors found that:the occurrence of hate crimes is largely independent of economic conditionsthe support for attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip does not decrease among those with higher e
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    Harnessing globalisation for children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2002
    This report assesses the impact of the latest wave of globalisation on children.
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    Civil society, cooperation and peace mobilization in Colombia

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2001
    This paper investigates the role of peace mobilizations in the 1990's in Colombia in achieving a collaborative agreement between traditionally opposed actors, that would restore social conflicts normally dealt with violence to the political sphere and enable negotiations for new rules of engagement.
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    Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

    Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002
    This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.

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