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  Managing forests as common property

  Forestry Department, FAO, 1998

  This comprehensive study brings together available information about the role of common property as a system of governance and its current relevance to forest management and use.A review of indigenous common property systems that have disappeared or survived, together with an examination of the experiences of selected contemporary collective management programmes in different countries, reveals
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  Promoting democratic governance and preventing the recurrence of conflict: the role of the United Nations Development Programme inpost conflict peace-building

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This paper assesses the scope and significance of the new development agenda endorsed by UNDP and attempts to gauge the promises and dilemmas of its efforts to consolidate peace by promoting democracy and strengthening good governance, focusing on the experiences of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.The paper first scrutinises the emergence of democracy and good governance in the agenda of t
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  Risk of increasing instability in the Ferghana Valley

  Forum on Early Warning and Early Response, 2001

  This article discusses instability in the Ferghana Valley (lies within Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan).The article finds that:at present, any serious armed religious extremism and the widening of its social base among refugees or displaced people may trigger violent responses from regional governments and the tightening of already undemocratic policies towards any dissentthe
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  Preventing new Afghanistans: a regional strategy for reconstruction

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002

  This article discusses the dangers of Central Asian states developing in the same direction as Afghanistan.
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  Tajikistan: an uncertain peace

  International Crisis Group, 2001

  This article discusses the fragile peace in Tajikistan. The article indicates that Tajikistan remains the most vulnerable of the Central Asian nations.
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  Rebuilding Afghanistan: fantasy versus reality

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001

  This article explores realistic possibilities for reconstructing Afghanistan.The article finds that:the international community is calling for the creation of a democratic, secular state, but it is also clearly not willing to provide a large military force to help build itgiven the extreme fragmentation and militarization of Afghan society, democratic reconstruction cannot possibly
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  Combating trafficking [of women] in South-East Asia: a review of policy and programme responses

  International Organization for Migration, 2001

  At least 200-225,000 women and children from South-East Asia are trafficked annually, a figure representing nearly one-third of the global trafficking trade. Of the estimated 45-50,000 women and children estimated to be trafficked into the US each year, 30,000 are believed to come from South-East Asia.
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  Global IDP: Afghanistan information menu

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2001

  This page provides access to all Afghan specific resources included in the IDP Database.Includes information on:causes and background of displacmentpopulation profile and figurespatterns of displacementphysical security and freedom of movementsubsistence needsaccess to educationissues of self-reliance and public participationissues of family identity and cult
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  Refugees and asylum seekers in London: a GLA perspective

  Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK, 2001

  This article discusses refugees and asylum seekers in London.The article recommends that:vouchers should be replaced with cash paymentsthe present system of ‘dispersal’ should be replaced with a national system of reception and settlement of asylum seekers designed to meet their needsplans for large-scale forcible administrative removal of failed asylum applicants should be drop
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  Asylum Seekers’ Skills and Qualifications Audit Pilot Project

  Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK, 2001

  This report audits the skills and qualifications of about 440 asylum seekers dispersed under the National Asylum Support System (NASS) to Leicester and assesses their potential contribution to the local and regional economy before they gain permission to work and thus at a time when referrals to preparation, education and opportunities can promote their chances of employment.

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