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    Conflict Sensitivity: Topic Guide

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This topic guide discusses the origin, evolution and applicability of conflict sensitivity. It highlights three key conflict sensitive approaches and tools: Do No Harm, Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) and Aid for Peace.
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    Gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This rapid review collates a large amount of literature published in 2013 and 2014 (up to April 2014) on the topic of gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It is not a systematic or exhaustive review, but does provide a comprehensive overview of the literature available.
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    The impact of conflict on poverty

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: Provide an overview of the latest evidence since 2010 on the impact of conflict on poverty.
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    Supporting local governance in protracted conflicts

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk report responds to the following query: Please provide examples of successful interventions to support the delivery of services by local governments and administrations in areas where there is a protracted conflict?
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    Peace-making in West Africa: Progress and prospects

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2005
    Since the establishment in May 1975, the Economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) has consistently strived to integrate West African economies towards rapid growth and development in order to enhance the living standards of citizenry. These efforts were originally premised on an assumption of a stable and secure environment for economic integration.
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    Oil, corruption and conflict in West Africa: The failure of governance and corporate social responsibility

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2005
    Natural resources are a noted cause of intra-state conflict and deserve recognition as such by ECOWAS. Oil, in particular, is linked to frequent civil strife and conflicts induced by slow rates of economic growth, weak and undemocratic governments, rampant corruption and heavy militarization.
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    Public information as a mission critical component of West African peace operations

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2006
    In conflict and post-conflict societies, the media acts to socialize- complementing and often substitution for a lack of other capable institutions. In addition to its informational utility, the media is fundamentally a source of entertainment, which has the capacity to integrate, amuse and offer continuity.
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    Mainstreaming or maneuvering? Gender and peacekeeping in West Africa

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2005
    When the first United Nations peacekeeping mission was established in 1948, warfare in many respects was straightforward. Conflicts tended to be interstate, the belligerents unambiguous, and interventions primarily military. Peacekeeping operations usually included the insertion of military observers, or forces to monitor already secured cease-fire agreements.
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    Understanding Jihadism in Pakistan

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    It is easy to dismiss Pakistan as a 'failing state'. Indeed, Pakistan today is a strange, shadowy world where disorder is rapidly gaining ground.
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    Japan's role in the Cambodian peace settlement (1977-1993)

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    The importance of Japan's role in Cambodia's peace settlement lies in the fact that it was one of the earliest political tasks Tokyo undertook in a region which had been known for its antipathy to Japan arising from the trauma of the Second World War.

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