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    Regulating the commons in Mauritania: local agreements as a tool for sustainable natural resource management

    International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006
    Natural resource management is Mauritania is a complex pluri-legal affair, with tribal law, colonial French law and modern state law coexisting and often contradicting. One approach of dealing with these codes, and at the same time, the various stakeholders, is to establish local agreements (LAs).
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    The making of an ethnic militia: the Oodua People’s Congress in Nigeria

    Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, CRISE, Oxford University, 2006
    This paper explores the evolution of a Nigerian Yoruba ethnic militia, the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) and provides an analysis of the rebellion-making decisions in which the state plays an active role.The study finds that the history and evolution of the OPC display many features not found in the typical economic presentation of the rebellion-making process: despite Nigeria’s oil wea
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    Prolonged crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory: recent socio-economic impacts on refugees and non-refugees

    United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, 2006
    The economic deterioration, rising unemployment and soaring poverty rates resulting from political instability in Palestine since 2000 have been foremost in the concerns of international humanitarian groups. The 2006 election of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, ensuing conflict with Israel and de-facto economic sanctions have prompted this impact evaluation report.
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    The role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in peace processes: mutually reinforcing or mutually exclusive?

    Institute of Public Policy Research, Namibia, 2006
    This article reviews the arguments for and against criminal prosecutions of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during ongoing conflict situations.
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    Dealing with spoilers in peace processes

    2006
    This report discusses the outcomes of a workshop on how to deal with ”spoilers” in peace negotiations.
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    Bangladesh today

    International Crisis Group, 2006
    Bangladesh faces twin threats to its democracy and stability: the risk that its political system will founder in a deadlock over elections and the growing challenge of militant Islamism, which has brought a spate of violence. This report gives an overall view of the world's third most populous Muslim country and assesses the implications for instability.
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    Protecting persons affected by natural disasters: IASC operational guidelines on human rights and natural disasters

    Brookings Institution, 2006
    How do you protect Human Rights in times of natural disaster and emergency? This report offers guidelines from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) on humanitarian action in emergencies, including situations of natural disaster. There are also standards on protecting human rights in situations of armed conflict, internal displacement and refugee situations.
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    Conflict and development: peacebuilding and post–conflict reconstruction

    House of Commons International Development Committee, 2006
    This report from the UK House of Commons Committee on International Development reviews the linkages between conflict and development.
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    Securing health: lessons from nation-building missions

    RAND Corporation, 2006
    This report examines the rebuilding public health and health care delivery systems in nation-building efforts in post-conflict situations.
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    Report on UNCTAD’s assistance to the Palestinian people

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2006
    This report from UNCTAD argues that the severity of the current crisis requires urgent, innovative measures to sustain and protect the Palestinian economy.Shocks to the economy following the January 2006 elections have included increased Israeli restrictions on financial flows and the movement of goods and people, the destruction of physical capital, Israel’s decision to withhold the tax and cu

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