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    Pakistan: the worsening IDP crisis

    International Crisis Group, 2010
    This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime.
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    Measuring peace in the media

    Human Security Gateway, 2010
    This report explores the media coverage, or lack of coverage, of peace and conflict with a special emphasis on news themes that may help to create stable, peaceful societies. The paper states that the concept of peace news coverage is new and may provide a unique differentiator for a television network.
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    El Salvador’s progress on governance: negotiation, political inclusion and post-war transition

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2010
    El Salvador experienced a violent civil war between 1980 and 1991 due to more than a century of systemic social, political and economic exclusion of large segments of the population. It was also a battleground in the cold war between capitalist and communist ideologies.
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    Politics in Sri Lanka: changing trends

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    Politics in Sri Lanka is largely paternalistic and not egalitarian or inclusive as it should be in democracy. At all levels, class and castehierarchies dominate Sri Lankan polity, a fallow ground for the growthof an elitist society above popular challenge and unshackled byaccountability.
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    Nepal’s political rites of passage

    International Crisis Group, 2010
    Nepal’s transition from war to peace seems to be chaotic and many have warned of impending anarchy entailing collapse of the social order and the fragmentation of the nation. This, however, is not the case because the transition, though messy and confusing, is not anarchic due to the existence of some form of order within the political change.
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    Liberia: the 2011 elections and building peace in the fragile state

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    Liberia holds its second post-war presidential and legislative elections in October 2011. The first, held in 2005 was the first free and fair elections in the country’s long history and it ushered in Africa’s first elected female president. Since then Liberia, previously wracked by bloody petty wars, has been largely stable, though very fragile.
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    States of fragility: stabilisation and its implications for humanitarian action

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2010
    Stabilization includes a combination of military, humanitarian, political and economic activities to control, contain and manage areas affected by armed conflict and complex emergencies. This paper explores the evolution of international stabilization efforts and their significance for humanitarian action.
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    Conflict over forests and land in Asia

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2010
    Tenure and claims over forests and land are highly contested throughout Asia where states retain full ownership of land. Competition for land for investment, resource extraction, and conservation is becoming more common. The conflict takes place between local communities and indigenous peoples and external Government agencies and developers.
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    Climate change and conflict: moving beyond the impasse

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
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    The State’s legitimacy in fragile situations - unpacking complexity

    OECD Development Co-operation Directorate: DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, 2010

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