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    Community-based Approaches to Peacebuilding in Conflict-affected and Fragile Contexts

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
    The ‘community’ has often been resilient in conflict-affected and fragile contexts, providing survival and coping mechanisms for violence, insecurity and fragility. Growing attention has thus been paid to the adoption of community-based approaches to help address the extensive needs in these contexts.
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    Topic Guide on Conflict

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    Conflict is inherent in all societies and arises when two or more groups believe their interests are incompatible. ‘Conflict’ is not, however, interchangeable with ‘violence’. Non-violent resolution is possible when individuals and groups have trust in their governing structures, society and institutions to manage incompatible interests.
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    Learning from an interrupted evaluation: Lessons from the randomized impact evaluation “Female Empowerment and Occupational Impacts of Vocational Training in the day - to - day life of the oases in rural Mauritania”

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    Security is an important parameter to consider when thinking of, designing and implementing a randomized impact evaluation. Some very concrete problems can appear, which are not always easy to foresee beforehand. They can stem from “normal” criminality or from politically sensitive situations.
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    Targeting groups at risk of extremism through security and justice programming

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following question: What evidence is there that security and justice programming (by DFID or other donors) targets specific groups (populations and victims) at risk of extremism and how has the impact been measured?Key findings include:
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    The multilateral system’s contribution to peace and security

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: Literature review: what does recent analysis suggest about the contribution of the multilateral system to international development goals on peace and security?The literature broadly suggests that:
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    Formal and informal policing in Iraq

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: Identify literature on improving public security in Iraq through formal and informal policing mechanisms.Within the literature there seems to be a number of common themes and recommendations:
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    Non-political drivers of violence

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report answers the following query: Please identify and summarise recent literature on non-political drivers of violence. Any insights on middle-income country fragility/conflict would be particularly useful.A growing body of literature looks at non-political drivers of violence. These, often inter-related factors, include:
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    Topic Guide Supplement on Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2012
    Statebuilding and peacebuilding, while conceptually distinct, are becoming more closely integrated in academic and policy circles. This Topic Guide supplement on Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility looks at the links (and tensions) between statebuilding and peacebuilding, how these activities interact, and how they can be approached in practice.
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    The reinvention of NATO: impacts on Europe and Asia

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2005
    At the end of the Cold War, many observers predicted the dissolution of NATO. The alliance was created during the Cold War in order in order to defend Western Europe against a presumed Soviet threat. Now that the Cold War had ended and the Soviet Union itself had ceased to exist, it seemed only reasonable to anticipate the demise of the alliance.
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    The dynamics of LTTE'S commercial maritime infrastructure

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2006
    Domestic conditions were also favourable to establish a network among the Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil fishermen who became an important source of strength for the LTTE. The LTTE conducted operations with the assistance of the

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