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  Report on UNCTAD’s assistance to the Palestinian people

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2006

  This report from UNCTAD argues that the severity of the current crisis requires urgent, innovative measures to sustain and protect the Palestinian economy.Shocks to the economy following the January 2006 elections have included increased Israeli restrictions on financial flows and the movement of goods and people, the destruction of physical capital, Israel’s decision to withhold the tax and cu
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  Surviving in a changing world: environment, security and microfinance

  The Green Cross Optimist, 2006

  This article summarises some of the ways in which environmental change is linked to insecurity.
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  The challenges and opportunities of security sector reform in post-conflict liberia

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2005

  This Occasional Paper examines post conflict reconstruction in Liberia, with particular focus on the security sector. The paper argues that opportunities for security sector reform (SSR) are conditioned by the mutually reinforcing relationship between the state of security on the one hand, and the security of the state on the other.
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  Learning lessons from the Middle East: towards an ethical foreign policy

  One World Trust, 2006

  This paper is an attempt to connect the armed conflict of the past month in Lebanon and Israel to the question of accountability of governments for their international engagements.The authors argue that while successive Foreign Secretaries and Parliaments have given different weight to the concept of an ethical foreign policy, the recent events reinforce the need to bring the issue back into th
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  Global responses to global threats: sustainable security for the 21st century

  Oxford Research Group, UK, 2006

  This report is the result of an 18-month long research project examining the various threats to global security, and sustainable responses to those threats.Current security policies assume international terrorism to be the greatest threat to global security, and attempt to maintain the status quo and control insecurity through the projection of military force.
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  Closing the gaps between desirable and possible peace: a conference report

  North-South Institute, 2006

  This report details debates within a conference organised by a consortium of institutions which launched the What Kind of Peace is Possible? (WKOP) project.
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  A shift in the paradigm of violence: non–governmental terrorism in Latin America since the end of the cold war

  Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006

  This article examines how non–state terrorism has grown substantially in many parts of the world since the mid 1990s.
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  Out of area, out of sight?: what role do gender and peace policy aspects play in the European Security Policy

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2006

  This report seeks to answer the question: what role do gender and peace policy aspects play in the security policy of the European Union?
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  Backgrounder: parliamentary committees on defence and security

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2006

  This backgrounder reviews the composition, function and purpose of various Parliamentary Committees on Defence and Security in a variety of countries. This brief highlights the these committees as and example of security sector governance and reform by outlining their mandate, powers, requirements for efficiency, organization, division of labour, as well as relevant examples.
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  Rights and responsibilities: resolving the dilemma of humanitarian intervention

  Oxford Research Group, UK, 2005

  This paper critically examines attempts to conceptualise the use of military intervention on humanitarian grounds, with a focus on the 'responsibility to protect' framework, and offers discussion of the way forward in light of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the US-led 'war on terror'.It traces the history of the concept from its post-Cold War origins through to the UN World Summit of Septemb

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