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    Links between climate change, conflict and governance in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    Climate change has repeatedly been called a major threat to Africa. Identically, the risk of climate-induced violent and armed conflict is considered high for the continent. The current paper identifies available policy options and recommends mitigating measures to counter these perceived effects of climate change in Africa.
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    Counter-terrorism, human rights and the rule of law in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This paper argues that this decade presents new opportunities for more nuanced, palatable, realistic and interlinked strategies, on the part of African governments, to promote principled counter-terrorist practice and policy in ways the reduce rather than exacerbate the longer-term threat.
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    Besides greed and grievances: natural resource characteristics and conflicts in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    The relationship between natural resources and conflict is not new, yet a more holistic understanding of the relationship between natural resources and conflict requires an appreciation of the role of natural resource characteristics.
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    African Standby Force police roster system: proposed features, operations and processes

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    Although Africa hosts most peacekeeping missions, the rest of the world seems to be reluctant to deploy forces to the continent. Therefore, Africa needs to develop its own peacekeeping capabilities more than any other region.
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    Debates in post-conflict development in Africa: lessons for development agencies

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    Luckily, many post-conflict settings benefit from high levels of international attention and domestic optimism in the immediate aftermath of transition, with no lack of external actors drawn from the diaspora, private sector investors and a plethora of international aid organisations. Yet, channeling this attention towards improved development outcomes is difficult.
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    Internal and external dilemmas of peacebuilding in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    Peacebuilding, as a distinct area of international engagement, developed in the early 1990s within the context of the reform of the conflict prevention and peacekeeping capacity of the UN.
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Security and democracy in Southern Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This study investigates the interface between security, at both the national and regional levels, and democratisation. The paper asserts that security and democratic governance are intertwined. The paper focuses particularly on the South African Development Community (SADC) region, studying its countries as relevant example. The paper concludes the following:
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    Governing insecurity: democratic control of military and security establishments in transitional democracies

    Zed Books, 2003
    This book examines the governance of security and insecurity in developing and former communist countries that are becoming more democratic.
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    Sur International Journal on Human Rights: Issue 9 - Sixty years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2008
    This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the indivisibility and the universality of human rights.

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