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    Roots of the Syrian crisis

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2016
    In December 2010, when trouble erupted in Tunisia, the Arab countries of West Asia and North Africa were mired in serious problems. In the entire Arab world, political freedom was at a premium, to varying degrees. There was large scale unemployment. Benefits of economic growth were cornered by a few; and the younger generation was restive.
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    Modi in Lahore: Indian and Pakistani reflections

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2015
    Prime Minister Modi’s surprising and bold stop at Lahore on his way back from inaugurating the India - financed Parliament in Kabul on December 25, 2015, ostensibly to wish Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif on his birthday, certainly signified a clever use of symbolism to add impetus to the recently revived Indo - Pak peace process.
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    Taking back the seas: prospects for Africa's blue economy

    Institute for Security Studies, 2016
    The discussion of Africa’s so-called blue economy rose to the top of African leaders’ agenda when African union (Au) members started a campaign for a continent-wide renaissance of the African maritime domain.
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    Conflict briefing notes: conflict briefing No.33, February 2015

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2016
    Attacks by Jamaatu Ahlis-Sunna Liddaawati W al Jihad (JAS) persisted in February despite government and military claims that the group had been contained. Recent comments attributed to the Nigerian army command suggest that the military is perplexed by the resilience of JAS and has commenced investigations to ascertain the reasons behind the group's subsistence.
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    Conflict briefing notes: conflict briefing No.32, January 2016

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2016
    The Nigerian military sustained its attacks on locations and supply networks of the Jamaatu Ahlis-Sunna Liddaawati W al Jihad (JAS). Despite the successful counter-insurgency initiatives, JAS retained its capability to launch both suicide bomb and guerrilla attacks on soft targets, notably Dalori and Gamori villages in Borno and Goniri T own in Y obe where about 100 persons were killed.
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    Region-Building and Peacebuilding in Southern Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2016
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) office in Gaborone, Botswana, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Gaborone, 19-20 September 2015, on “Region-Building and Peacebuilding in Southern Africa”.
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    Study on the relationship between indigenous peoples and the Pacific Ocean

    The United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2016
    Climate change poses a great challenge for the health and productivity of the oceans.
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    Conflict briefing notes: conflict briefing No.31, December 2015

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2015
    Some cases of attacks by the suspected militants of Jamaatu Ahlis-Sunna Liddaawati W al Jihad (JAS) were reported in communities in Yobe and Borno states in December 2015. However, the Federal Government announced that the military has met the presidential deadline of defeating the insurgents by December 31.
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    Issues in labour market inequality and women’s participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

    International Labour Organization, 2011
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGP or NREGP), functions as an income supplement for poor households by providing 100 days of work to a rural household, with 33 per cent of all workdays reserved for women workers.
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    The informal economy and decent work: a policy resource guide supporting transitions to formality

    International Labour Organization, 2013
    This is a policy resource guide developed to build the capacities of ILO constituents in approaches that facilitate transitions to formality. Previous work has shown that the move out of informality requires approaches that are targeted, comprehensive and inter-disciplinary.

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