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    Interpeace

    Interpeace is an independent, international peacebuilding organization and strategic partner of the United Nations. We were created by the United Nations in 1994.
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    Enhancing the role of Southern African women in mediation

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2013
    Although the need to engage women in peace processes is widely acknowledged, most mediation teams do not include or encourage the voices and representation of women. Promoting women’s capacities to participate in peace processes is crucial for their advancement and ability to contribute to peace, development and security.
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    Field guide for working in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    Helvetas, 2013
    Since the discussion around international assistance and development work in conflict-affected situations started in the 90s, many tools and guidelines have been developed which have intended to make development and humanitarian work more suitable or adapted to difficult contexts.
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    Defining our space: Gender mainstreaming strategies in the work of GPPAC – the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

    BRIDGE, 2013
    What strategies have been used by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) to encourage the integration of gender perspectives into its work? What have been the roles of women’s organisations and activists in this process?
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    Albert Einstein Institute

    The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world.
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    Civil resistance in the East European and Soviet revolutions

    Albert Einstein Institute, 1991
    The death knell of communist rule, which has now ended in all European countries, was sounded not by nuclear weapons, nor even for the most part by the use of military force, but by civil resistance.
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    Why civil resistance works: the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict

    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
    The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against similar opponents and in the face of repression.
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    From dictatorship to democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation

    Albert Einstein Institute, 2010
    This book length essay seeks to address the perennial problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the realise of a new one. Its basic premise is that it is only the consent of the populace which allows dictatorships and autocratic regimes to rule. Ergo the removal of public support will ensure that unpopular regimes will fall.
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    Rebuilding Local Government finance after conflict: The political economy of property tax reform in post-conflict Sierra Leone

    Research4Development, 2013
    This research explores relatively successful reforms of the local property tax system in the four largest city councils in Sierra Leone. Deriving lessons from differing outcomes across the four councils, it highlights three key messages about the determinants of successful reform.
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    Crime, violence and conflict: rethinking peacebuilding to meet contemporary challenges

    International Alert, 2013
    Conflict deaths are decreasing as a result of fewer civil wars and interstate wars. However, a quarter of the world’s population still lives in the shadow of different types of organised violence, notably violence perpetrated by criminal groups and urban violence. This suggests shifts in the constituents, landscape, cycle and dynamic of organised violence.

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