Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security

Showing 3571-3580 of 3869 results

Pages

  • Document

    Land management in Ghana: building on tradition and modernity

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    An overlap in the regulation of access to land and resources between customary and state management systems is causing problems of contradiction and conflict. This report analyses the pros and cons of both systems and makes a series of recommendations.State administration of land is found to have worked against poorer elements in Ghana.
  • Document

    Breaking the spears and cooling the earth: an analytical review of the Pastoral Communities Harmonisation Initiative

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2001
    This article describes the role OAU/IBAR plays in peace-making among the Karamajong in Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia.OAU/IBAR's main interaction was previously focused on eradicating rinderpest and other livestock diseases through community-based animal health approaches. However, the organisation has already won the confidence of the livestock owners in this area.
  • Document

    Community-based animal health care in Somali areas of Africa: a review

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1999
    This review is based on the question "are community-based animal health systems a realistic option for improving primary veterinary services in Somalia?"The article finds that:experience in Southern Sudan suggests that well-coordinated, large-scale community animal health worker (CAHW) systems can form the basis for improved service delivery in conflict zonesreviews of CAHW projects
  • Document

    Negotiating rights: access to land in the cotton zone, Burkina Faso

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    The paper examines how derived rights have evolved through settlement, loan, rental or purchase contracts and how these arrangements have developed as a result of national policy and socio-economic history. It goes on to examine how the unique circumstances of "established" and "pioneer" farming areas show differing patterns of change in arrangements over time.
  • Document

    Transformation of middle eastern natural environments: legacies and lessons

    Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998
    Collection of papers looking at environmental change resulting from human interactions with nature in the middle east.
  • Document

    Violence against civilians in civil wars: looting or terror?

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This paper analyses the hypothesis that terrorising the civilian population plays a military role.
  • Document

    From conflict to reconstruction: reviving the social contract

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    What explains conflict, its intensity, and its duration? What are the chances of achieving a durable peace?
  • Document

    Conflict in Africa

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This paper is about the process rather than the origins of conflict and focussing on African examples, uses game theory to set out a model of peace and conflict in which two actors engage with each other. Moral hazard is also introduced into actions and efforts to promote peace.
  • Document

    Bin Laden and the Balkans: the politics of anti-terrorism

    International Crisis Group, 2001
    This article discusses the global focus on Islamist extremist-inspired terrorism resulting from the 11 September atrocities and the influence this has had on terrorist activity in, or emanating from, the Balkans.The article recommends to the international community: closely monitor in Bosnia and Kosovo the activities of Islamist organisations which may have links to terro
  • Document

    Central Asia: drugs and conflict

    International Crisis Group, 2001
    This article discusses the serious affect of the drug trade in Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Pages