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    Accelerating the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Initiative: policy briefs

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    Since its inception in 1993, Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) has evolved into a multi-stakeholder process, including state parties, international agencies, and civil society organisations, to promote the continent’s development based on the principles of African ownership and international partnership.
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    South Africa in Southern Africa: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    Angola has replaced Zimbabwe, which previously occupied a leadership role in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as Southern Africa’s second largest economy, and its evolving strategic relationship with South Africa could drive sub-regional development.
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    The African Union at ten: problems, progress, and prospects

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    The African Union (AU) was founded in 2002 on a wave of optimism about the continent’s future, and was equipped with stronger administrative mechanisms and greater powers of intervention in the affairs of its member states than its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
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    Africa, South Africa, and the United Nations security architecture

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    The 54-member African Group at the United Nations accounts for over a quarter of the 193-member UN General Assembly, enabling African countries collectively to punch above their weight while providing an opportunity for the continent to pursue its interests at the world body more effectively.
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    Emigration and origin country’s institutions: does the destination country matter?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The causes and consequences on international labour migration is a one of the liveliest debate among contemporary international economists. This paper examines the influence of international migration on the evolution of the quality of institutions in the home country. The paper also focuses on the potential difference in the impact depending on the status of the destination country (i.e.
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    The political economy of public sector employment in resource dependent countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper proposes a political economic explanation for the well documented difference in labour market institutions between high natural resource per capita countries and those that are natural resource dependent but whose populations are large.
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    The African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union (EU)

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013
    This CCR seminar report addresses the potential for further strategic engagement between the 79-member ACP and the 28-member EU as the third five-year review of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 on trade, aid, and political cooperation approaches in 2015, and as the end of the 20-year span of Cotonou in 2020 draws nearer.
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    Towards a new pax Africana: making, keeping, and building peace in post-Cold War Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    This CCR seminar report assesses the progress being made by the African Union (AU) and Africa's regional economic communities (RECs) in managing conflicts and operationalising the continent's peace and security architecture. The report also seeks to assist these bodies in building peace in countries emerging from conflict.
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    Post-apartheid South Africa’s foreign policy after two decades

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    This report is based on a policy research seminar which convened about 50 leading practitioners, scholars, and civil society activists from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America to explore and enhance the potential leadership role that South Africa can play in promoting peace and security, as well as regional integration and development in Africa.
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    South Africa, Africa, and international investment agreements

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    By December 2013, 793 bilateral investment treaties had been concluded by African countries, representing 27 percent of the total number of such agreements.

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