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  Conflict and project finance: exploring options for better management of conflict risk

  International Alert, 2006

  This paper focuses on the linkages between project finance and conflict.
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  Of broken social contracts and ethnic violence: the case of Kashmir

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2005

  This paper examines the conflict in Kashmir, arguing that the main reason for political discontent and resort to violence has to do with repeated infringement of the social contract by the central government of India, acting often in tandem with the state government. It first considers the theoretical debates concerning nationalism and ethnicity.
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  Willing to compromise: Palestinian public opinion and the peace process

  United States Institute of Peace, 2006

  This report analyzes survey data gathered from dozens of polls conducted over the past decade and identifies long-term trends in Palestinian public opinion and related policy implications. The author outlines how Palestinian public opinion is not an impediment to progress in the peace process and that over time the Palestinian public has become more moderate.
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  Post-war defence integration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Institute for Security Studies, 2005

  This paper explores the defense integration process as designed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s peace agreement and transitional arrangements from 2003 to 2005.
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  An architecture of instability: how the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken

  Global Witness, 2005

  This policy briefing provides recommendations for the incoming Liberian government, the UN Security Council and international donor agencies on the best ways to protect democracy and resources within Liberia. The authors outline the systematic failure of numerous agencies to protect the natural resources and boarders of Liberia.
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  Somalia’s Islamists

  International Crisis Group, 2005

  This document examines Islamism in Somalia.
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  Developing Iraq’s security sector: the Coalition Provisional Authority’s experience

  RAND Corporation, 2005

  This report concerns itself with the efforts to build both security forces and institutions in Iraq.
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  Development in an insecure world: new threats to human security and their implications for development policy

  Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for International Development Cooperation / FINNIDA, 2005

  This collection of essays explores policy options which address new threats to human security that transcend national boundaries and give rise to major development challenges in the contemporary world.
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  Youth unemployment and regional insecurity in West Africa

  UN, 2005

  This report identifies the most pressing issues confronting youth in West Africa and proposes a number of concrete recommendations to the Governments of the sub-region, donor countries, international organisations and the private sector.Each chapter covers important means of reducing unemployment and the action which needs to be taken simultaneously on each front.
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  Filling “the Gap”: lessons well learnt by the Multilateral Aid Agencies

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  Following the assumed gap between relief and development assistance as prominent in the 1990s, this article examines the response to bridging this gap between, with a focus on the multilateral aid agencies in the UN system.

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