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    Making property in the Taos valleys

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    This article emphasises that society makes property and that when one society is displaced by another it often is the case that existing property arrangements are recast to favor the newcomers and disadvantage the former inhabitants.
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    Development economics, sociology, and displacement: a vexing dilemma under interdisciplinary dialogue

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    This article tackles the issue of preventing the onset of new impoverishing processes and causes.
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    AIDS: the undeclared war

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Identifying the key issues relating to the war on HIV / AIDS as access to medication, cultural factors, lack of knowledge and resource short-fall this paper discusses broad areas of change needed to break current trends.The author goes on to suggest some more detailed policy responses for governments, ngos, the private sector and international institutions placing HIV /AIDS in the context of th
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    Gender equity and sustainable development

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Positioning gender equity as an essential building block of sustainable development the paper "addresses a small number of gender-sensitive issues which need to be taken into account by policy-makers and stakeholders working on solutions to the urgent economic, political, social and environmental problems we face".The issues covered are:Human rights and self-determination - looking part
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    Policy for post-conflict societies: reducing the risks of renewed conflict

    The Economics of Crime and Violence, World Bank, 2000
    Post-conflict societies usually have high risks of renewed conflict during the first decade after conflict has ended.This paper shows that much can be done by both post-conflict governments and the international community to reduce these risks:each society can identify the structure of risks to establish the priorities for risk-reductionpolicies elaborated must be country-specific
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    Ethnicity, political systems and civil wars

    The Economics of Crime and Violence, World Bank, 2001
    This paper analyses the effect of ethnic division on civil war and the role of political systems in preventing these conflicts.
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    Partition as a solution to ethnic war: an empirical critique of the theoretical literature

    The Economics of Crime and Violence, World Bank, 2000
    This article aims to test the arguments that:physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil warwithout territorial partition and forced population movement, endless war and genocide are inevitablepartition only replaces internal with international war, creating undemocratic successor states, and generating human sufferingThe author u
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    Forced migration and changing local political economies: a study from North-western Sri Lanka

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2000
    This study investigates forced migrations resulting from internal war in Sri Lanka.
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    Building peace in war-torn societies: from concept to strategy

    Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 2001
    Following a period of violent conflict , war torn societies face many challenges. In many cases, societies themselves lack the human, institutional and financial resources to tackle theses problems.
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    Humanitarian challenges in Afghanistan: administrative structures and gender and assistance

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2001
    The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated over the last months as conflict between the Taliban and the international community has intensified. UN sanctions and isolation has strengthened the influence of radical and anti-western elements within the movement.

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