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    Afghanistan and Central Asia: priorities for reconstruction and development

    International Crisis Group, 2001
    This article discusses the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan, and means of ensuring stability and security.The article recommends that:donors should adopt a regional approach, tackling development, drugs and security problems not just in Afghanistan but in the neighbouring countries as welldonors should establish a coordinated set of trust funds that will allow rapid disbursemen
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    Fuelling war or buying peace?: the role of corruption in conflicts

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    Corruption is endogenous to many political structures and serves key functions beyond the self-interest of public officials and politicians.This paper states that:corruption participates in political ordering and forms part of the fabric of social relationsconflicts may arise more from changes in the pattern of corruption, than from corruption itselfdomestic or external shocks a
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    The refugee experience: psychosocial training module

    Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2001
    This web resource, produced by the Refugee Studies Centre, provides over 30 hours of training material on the psychosocial elements of the refugee experience. The material is designed for humanitarian workers and refugee policy makers who do not necessarily have a professional background in the social sciences.
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    The subsidy trap: British government financial support for arms exports and the defence industry

    Saferworld, 2001
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    Civilian peace-keepers: a future challenge

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 1998
    If peace-keeping is to remain one of the United Nations' most important instruments for securing world peace, it requires new and improved peace-keeping mechanisms in areas where the international community faces potential or existing conflicts.This article discusses the possibility of a more frequent and conceptualized use of civilians to enhance the capacity of peace-keeping.The main objectiv
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    Involuntary displacement, impoverishment and recovery

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    The paper discusses the extent to which involuntary displacement is an impoverishing experience and how this experience affects refugees' ability to cope in adversity.Some of the questions addressed include:why is involuntary displacement an impoverishing experience?what are the material and non-material losses involuntarily displaced populations experience?how do involuntarily
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    To cultivate peace: agriculture in a world of conflict

    Future Harvest, 1999
    In the post-Cold War world, despite grand visions of a "New World Order,"armed conflict follows a different pattern.This paper posits that:there is a strong link between agricultural dependence and new types of conflict, found primarily in countries with weak agricultural sectors where malnutrition and hunger are prevalentnew conflicts can be traced to the loss of livelihood and the
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    On obnoxious markets

    Department of Economics [Cornell University], 2001
    Certain markets evoke popular discomfort, distrust and even outrage. Trade in arms, drugs, toxic waste, child labor and body parts, for example, elicits these reactions to different degrees.
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    Your park, my poverty: the growth of greenlining in Africa

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    This paper examines the rapidly accelerating growth in African parks and protected areas as a form of place-making with welcome and unwelcome human consequences.The article finds that:there are various forms of human displacement (and de-placement) which accompany greenlining-the removal of humans from protected areas for other than scientific or touristic endsconservation refugees
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    Displacement and the end of modernity

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    This article discusses the world-wide phenomenon of displacement.The article finds that:while there were forms of displacement in many historical periods, contemporary displacement shows the limitations of modernityas the displacement of people and nature becomes common place, it emerges as the underside of the attempts by the current form of modernity (neo-liberal globalization) to

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