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  Land issues and poverty reduction: requirements for lasting peace in Sudan and Afghanistan

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007

  This brief uses examples from Sudan and Afghanistan to highlight the role that land issues have played both in causing poverty and in driving and sustaining protracted conflict.
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  Promoting health equity in conflict-affected fragile states

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2007

  This paper, by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looks at the factors that threaten health equity and health care equity in conflict and post-conflict fragile states, and identifies strategies to reduce the impact of these factors.
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  Colombia: moving forward with the ELN?

  International Crisis Group, 2007

  A three-year peace process between the government of Alvaro Uribe and the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) is at a standstill.
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  Sudan post-conflict environmental assessment

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007

  Despite a peace agreement with the south and a fast-growing economy, Sudan faces critical environmental issues including land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change, that threaten the Sudanese people’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development.
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  Energy security

  Gulf Research Center, UAE, 2007

  This document presents a collection of articles discussing energy security issues with an emphasis on the Middle East. It focuses on a range of topics in relation to energy security such as economics, politics, and security challenges for example, insurgent attacks.
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  The private security sector in Africa: the 21st century cause for concern?

  Institute for Security Studies, 2007

  This paper reviews the literature on the role of the private security apparatus in Africa. The author argues that rapid growth in the sector requires regulation in order to balance human rights and the need for personal security. The paper discusses the following issues:
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  The White Army: an introduction and overview

  Small Arms Survey, 2007

  This document reports on the conflict in southern Sudan. It particularly focuses on the origins, organisation, leadership and capacity of local armed groups of the Nilotic people.
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  Darfur 2007: chaos by design - peacekeeping challenges for AMIS and UNAMID

  Human Rights Watch, 2007

  This report provides a background on the Darfur conflict and the state of human rights in the region. The report argues that while the Darfur conflict is often characterised as an ethnic conflict between “Arab” and “non-Arab” African people, this radically oversimplifies and mischaracterises the conflict.
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  Conflicts between farmers and herders in north-western Mali

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007

  This report provides insight into the local management of conflict over natural resources between herders and farmers in north-western Mali. The study finds that social, economic and environmental change within the region has led to growing pressure on natural resources and a marked deterioration in relations between farmers and herders.
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  Afghanistan opium survey 2007

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2007

  This paper summarises the results of the Afghanistan Opium Survey for 2007. The survey reveals a dramatic increase in poppy cultivation in 2007. Primary findings of the report include:

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