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    Overcoming lost childhoods: lessons learned from the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers in Colombia

    Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2008
    Y Care International’s experience working with at-risk and vulnerable children and young people in Colombia, including child soldiers, has made apparent the need to share lessons learned and good practice in the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers.  This report summarises the lessons learned and recommendations from this process to date and can be used to inform si
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    Migration, development and natural disasters: insights from the Indian Ocean tsunami

    International Organization for Migration, 2007
    This paper explores how natural disasters impact migration and development development by reviewing the impact of the Indian Ocean Tsunami on migration issues in three affected countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
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    Monitoring land cover dynamics in sub-saharan Africa

    European Commission Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006
    Over the last 25 years civil disturbances, drought, population increases and global market pressures have all contributed in direct and indirect ways to a modification of Sub saharan African land cover. 
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    Negotiating in practice what is non-negotiable in principle: development policy and armed non-state actors

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    Non-State Armed Actors (NSAA) are today the main feature of violent conflicts both within States and at the regional level. Humanitarian organisations have for some time developed strategies to engage armed groups on questions related to the respect for humanitarian principles.
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    Climate change as the ‘new’ security threat: implications for Africa

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    This paper discusses the existence of climate change as a new security threat. It particularly examins the issues with respect to implications for Africa.
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    Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Colombia country study

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2006
    Largely focussing on internal conflict and terrorism, this report evaluates the human rights and humanitarian situation in Colombia.
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    The Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions

    ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories.
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    No place like home: house demolitions in East Jerusalem

    The Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, 2007
    Palestinian residents living in East Jerusalem are experiencing increased difficulties when building residential homes for themselves. The author argues that they face a myriad of bureaucratic hurdles when trying to obtain building permits as a result of low plot ratios in the Palestinian sectors of the city and problems with proof of land ownership.
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    The age of consequences: the foreign policy and national security implications of global climate change

    International Relations and Security Network, 2007
    This report examines the risks of climate change to global peace and stability. The authors develop three possible scenarios and analyse their respective security implications which include increased disease proliferation, tensions caused by migration, and conflict sparked by resource scarcity. Key points include:
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    Ethnic defection in civil war

    Department of Political Science, Yale University, 2007
    The study of civil war has often neglected the role of ethnicity and its construction. This paper examines the relationship between ethnic identity and civil war and points to several empirical instances of variability in the behavioural expression of ethnic identities within civil war.

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