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    Enabling corporate investment in peace: an assessment of voluntary initiatives addressing business and violent conflict, and a framework for policy decision-making

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004
    This report reviews the role of voluntary codes, guidelines and initiatives that address the relationship between business activities and violent civil conflict.
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    Rivers and blood: guns, oil and power in Nigeria’s Rivers State

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This briefing presents an overview of the occurrence of violence in Nigeria’s oil rich Rivers State in 2004. It briefly describes a number of violent outbreaks that have happened throughout 2004.
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    Conflict timber: dimensions of the problem in Asia and Africa

    ARD, Inc., 2004
    As a response to the growing recognition of the connection between forests, logging and conflict, this report provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, ecological, political, social and security dimensions of conflict timber in both Asia and Africa.The study, commissioned by USAID, identified four interrelated characteristics common to conflict timber incidents in Asia and Africa:
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    Diamonds are forever, wars are not: is conflict bad for private firms?

    European Development Research Network, 2004
    Using microeconomic data for Angola, this paper studies the relationship between civil war and private investment in a poor, resource abundant country.
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    Oil and water in Sudan

    African Centre for Technology Studies, 2004
    Sudan, a nation of 36 million people wracked by conflict for 34 of the last 45 years, has generated some four million displaced people during the course of its war. It is estimated that over two million Sudanese people have died as a result of fighting and related starvation and disease. Most conventional analyses have focussed on the identity-based dichotomies to explain the conflict.
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    War, peace and diamonds in Angola

    Institute for Security Studies, 2004
    The insurrections of the União para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA), and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) of Sierra Leone forced the international community to address the problem of the sale of diamonds to fund the purchase of arms.
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    Broken vows: exposing the loupe holes in the diamond industry’s efforts to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds

    Global Witness, 2004
    This paper evaluates how well the US diamond industry is complying with self-regulation established to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds, known as the ‘Kimberley Process’.The paper finds compliance with the Kimberley Process among companies surveyed ‘abysmal’:only five of the thirty retailers sent information on their policies on conflict diamonds when requestedthere were low
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    Shell in Nigeria

    Christian Aid, 2004
    This report aims to raise stakeholder's awareness to Shell's operations in Nigeria The report particularly focusing on Shell's failed relationship with local communities, the potential for aggravating civil conflict an the lack of organisational transparency.
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    A Diamonds Curse: Civil War and a Lootable Resource.

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004
    While territory, oil, and water are the resources mentioned most frequently as likely to promote interstate conflict, diamonds have emerged as a prominent factor in explanations of civil war.
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    A conflict of interests: the uncertain future of Burma's forests

    Global Witness, 2004
    Burma is resource rich, and principal among these resources is timber.

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