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    Royal succession in Saudi Arabia: challenges before the Desert Kingdom

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    With a new king in power, this paper looks at royal politics in Saudi Arabia and identifies topical domestic and regional challenges from the Saudi perspective.
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    Violating rights and threatening lives: the Camisea Gas Project and indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    This report highlights the existing impacts of the Camisea gas project in the south-east Peruvian Amazon on indigenous peoples living in ‘voluntary isolation’ (‘isolated peoples’) in the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti and Others’ Reserve.
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    Peru’s deadly environment: the rise in killings of environmental and land defenders

    Global Witness, 2014
    The world’s attention was be on Peru December 2014, as governments from 195 countries convened in the capital Lima for the UN Climate Conference. As delegates negotiated a global deal aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, a parallel human rights crisis is still unfolding in Peru and around the world.
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    Land governance in Brazil: a geo-historical review

    International Land Coalition, 2012
    This paper examines the paradoxes of land governance in Brazil by putting them in their historical context, highlighting in particular the continuing subordination of peasant farmers’ interests to those of large landholders.
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    Student politics: a game-theoretic exploration

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Students in institutes of higher education often engage in campus-politics. Typically there are student-parties who electorally compete with each other to gain control of the union which is usually the apex student body dealing directly with the higher authorities on student-related and other academic issues.
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    AIDS and society in South Africa: building a community of practice

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The first 25 years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic have been largely focused on bio-medical research. Gradually, social science researchers, donors, policymakers and activists have recognised that HIV/AIDS is more than simply a health issue and that the pandemic has developmental, governance and security implications.
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    HIV/AIDS and human security in South Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), based at the University of Cape Town, held a two-day policy seminar on  June 2006. The seminar, on the theme, “HIV/AIDS and Human Security in South Africa” , drew on knowledge and expertise on the scope and response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and southern Africa.
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    The response of the Kano state government to violent conflict since 2009: Lessons learned and policy implications

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2014
    Kano State, created in 1967, is the most populous state in Nigeria, with 9.4 million inhabitants, as recorded in the 2006 census. Its capital, Kano City, is an ancient commercial and religious hub, and the commercial, industrial and political centre of the North.
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    Responses of plateau state government to violent conflicts in the state

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2014
    Plateau State, in Nigeria’s North Central zone, has a population of some 3.5 million people and is an important mining and commercial centre. It has long been considered a melting pot because of its position between the north and south of the country and its ethnic composition. Plateau has suffered recurrent bouts of violent conflict, generally along religious and ethnic lines.
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    Managing election-related violence: elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011
    Electoral violence has been defined as acts or threats of coercion, intimidation, or physical harm perpetrated to affect an electoral process, or that arises in thecontext of electoral competition

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