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    SSR and post-conflict reconstruction: armed wing of state-building?

    The Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform, 2009
    Using a case taken from the reconstruction of Sierra Leone this paper outlines some of the key issues emerging after ten years of reconstruction efforts and also moves on to analyse what lessons can and can’t be drawn from this experience and what implications are for SSR going forward. The author goes ahead to explain the ideas such as;
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    Algeria: national reconciliation fails to address needs of IDPs

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2009
    Although Algeria has been affected by large-scale internal displacement caused by the internal conflict that has ravaged the country since the early 1990s, very little information is available on the current situation of the displaced and their numbers.
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    Conflict parties' interests in mediation

    Berghof Conflict Research, 2009
    Experience has shown that mediation can positively contribute to solving violent conflict. In order to improve mediation practices and support activities, this brief considers the mediation process through the perspective of conflicting parties. The authors seekconsider stakeholders’ interests in third party mediations, such as:
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    Health and conflict: a review of the links

    Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2009
    The four horsemen of the Apocalypse – Pestilence, Famine, War and Death –illustrate in many ways obvious connection between health and armed conflict. The purpose of this paper is to show how these four horsemen work together, and particularly, how pestilence, famine and death interact with war.
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    Exploring the connections between community security and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)

    Human Security Gateway, 2009
    Local communities can play a crucial role in promoting security and stability in conflict and post-conflict settings. Not only can they complement state programmes but also can effect numerous security initiatives when the state is unable, unwilling or unavailable to carry out such efforts.
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    The Somalia Conflict: implications for peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    This paper analyses how the root causes, changing dynamics and nature of the Somali conflict impact upon ongoing efforts of the international community for peacemaking and peacekeeping. It identifies both the challenges that these attributes pose for peacemaking and peacekeeping and the approaches for addressing them.
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    Security promotion in fragile states: can local meet national?

    Human Security Gateway, 2009
    Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under increasing scrutiny from researchers. Recent studies have sought to determine whether such ‘top-down’ approaches can offer a comprehensive response to communities struggling to recover from conflict.
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    Rethinking conflict transformation from a human rights perspective

    Berghof Conflict Research, 2009
    This paper looks at the question of whether and to what extent the protection and promotion of human rights is necessary for efforts to address conflict and build peace. It argues that considering human rights and conflict transformation together deepens analysis of what is involved in moving from violence to sustainable peace.
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    HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: new realities, new responses

    Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 2009
    The nexus between conflict, security and HIV/AIDS transmission has been frequently detailed. Although, a number of alarmist messages have been expressed – such as decimating rates of infection amongst soldiers and the risks posed by HIV to the potential collapse of states – specific analyses of the impact of HIV in conflict and post-conflict situations have been thin on the ground.
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    The challenge of building sustainable peace in the DRC

    Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2009
     Over the last ten years, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has witnessed an extraordinary number of attempts by both regional and international actors to solve what is considered Africa’s largest conflict.

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