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id21 insights, issue No. 66: Retaining legitimacy in fragile states
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The term ‘fragile states’ refers to states where globalisation and liberalisation have led to high levels of poverty and inequality, low levels of state capacity, vulnerability to internal and external shocks and the potential for domestic and international conflict.DocumentEnduring occupation: Palestinians under siege in the West Bank
Amnesty International, 2007This report details the dire consequences of Israeli security measures and the supporting of settlements and settler outposts on Palestinian livelihoods in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).DocumentConflict-sensitive business practice: guidance for commercial reforestation in Colombia
International Alert, 2006This manual is an adapted version of the Conflict-Sensitive Business Practice (CSBP) toolbox which applies the CSBP methodology to the Colombian reforestation sector in Colombia. The manual discusses the national information related to planted forests as well as conflict management and resolution.DocumentSuicide bombing operations
Gulf Research Centre, 2007This document analyses the record of suicide bombing that took place in different parts of the world during the last decades. It particularly focuses on case studies of attacks in Iraq, Chechnya, Sri-Lanka, Afghanistan and Palestine.DocumentSocial Capital and the Rwandan genocide: a micro-level analysis
Households in Conflict Network, 2007This document examines how the theory of social capital can be used to understand the violence that took place in a Rwandan community 50 KM south of the capital. It analyses the role of a small group of key players in the community and links their role with their political and economic status.DocumentWho joins ethnic militias? A Survey of the Oodua People’s Congress in southwestern Nigeria
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2007This paper presents an empirical account describing how rank and file members of an ethnic militia are mobilised. It specifically discusses the existing conceptual frameworks surrounding this issue and describes the profiles of militia members together with the motives sustaining their enlistment.DocumentThe war zone as social space: social research in conflict zones
Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2007This review discusses the importance of empirical research in conflict situations. The goal of the review is to map existing research to identify findings on policy and practice for conflict, conflict prevention and conflict resolution, as well as clarifying issues for a future research agenda. The report argues that empirical research is crucial for both policy and practice.DocumentThe Aceh peace process: nothing less than success
United States Institute of Peace, 2007This report looks at the reasons for the successful outcome of the Aceh peace process of 2006. The author argues that the peace process has, and will have, a huge political impact on Indonesia. What the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) has done in Aceh can be seen as a pilot project for the future of the country.DocumentThe Chad-Cameroon oil & pipeline project: a project non-compliance report
Forest Peoples Programme, 2007This report assesses the role of the World Bank in the funding and management of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project. The report argues that the project has fueled violence, impoverished people in the oil fields and along the pipeline route, exacerbated the pressures on indigenous peoples and created new environmental problems.DocumentReport on the displacement crisis in Iraq
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2007More than 727,000 people are estimated to have been internally displaced due to sectarian and generalised violence in Iraq between February 2006 and March 2007.Pages