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    Latin America and the drug issue: searching for a change

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2013
    This report analyses the current global situation of the drug question and highlights the limitations of the so-called "war on drugs". It specifically reflects on the particularities of the anti-narcotics crusade in Latin America by showing its poor results in terms of coping with the drug phenomenon.
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    Peace Direct

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    An introduction to Local First

    Peace Direct, 2013
    Local First is a development approach that looks first for the capacity within countries before bringing in external expertise and resources, recognises that much of this capacity is found outside central government, and understands that local people need to lead their own development.
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    Local first in peacebuilding

    2012
    There is growing recognition of the ubiquity and importance of locally led peacebuilding initiatives in conflict and post-conflict countries. Locally led peacebuilding offers advantages over internationally led initiatives for fostering self-help, relevance, and sustainability.
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    Is it the right time for the international community to exit Sierra Leone?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    A glance at key indicators – in terms of growth forecast and stable elections – will project Sierra Leone as a model for a successful post-conflict state.
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    The search for a negotiated peace in Colombia and the fight against illegal drugs

    2013
    The issue of illicit drugs has played a radically different role in the ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Havana compared with the peace process in El Caguán ten years ago. There are two differences.
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    The integration of natural resource markets as a means to peacebuilding in Latin America

    2013
    The rising prices of natural resources and generally stronger economies in Latin America have led to deeper economic integration among the countries of the region. Former foes have now become economically interdependent, reducing the risk of serious conflict.
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    Mediating criminal violence: lessons from the gang truce in El Salvador

    Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2013
    During the 1980s El Salvador suffered a bitterly contested civil war. Negotiations mediated by the United Nations concluded in a peace agreement in 1992 and set the course for the, largely smooth, assimilation of former guerrillas in the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) into Salvadoran political life.
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    The New Deal's peacebuilding and statebuilding goals and organised crime

    International Alert, 2013
    Organised crime has the potential to further contribute to fragility by intervening in what are often fraught relationships between state and society, as well as between citizens themselves.
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    The new geopolitics of peace operations: mapping the emerging landscape

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2012
    As the world’s geopolitical landscape is reshaped by changes in the relationships between leading global and regional powers, important questions are being raised about the durability of the recent downward trend in armed conflict, as well as the international consensus on forms of peace operations and what will be politically feasible in terms of interventions to address the conflict age

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