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    International Peace Institute (IPI)

    The International Peace Institute is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank with a staff representing more than 20 nationalities, located in New York across from United Nations headqu
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    Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict states: amnesties

    UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2009
    Amnesties are now regulated by a substantial body of international law that sets limits on their permissible scope. This publication is designed as a tool to help develop sustainable institutional capacity within United Nations missions, as well as to assist transitional administrations and civil society to better craft their responses to transitional justice needs.
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    Strategies for policy makers: bringing women into governments

    Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2009
    Involvement of women in peace processes brings skills, attributes, and perspectives to government processes. Post conflict governments that have involved women have tended to build governance systems which are stable and transparent.
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    The responsibility to protect (RtoP) and genocide prevention in Africa

    International Peace Institute, 2009
    This report details a roundtable discussion involving UN Special Advisers to the Secretary-General, together with high-level African policymakers, academics, and practitioners from government, regional and sub regional organizations, the UN, and civil society.
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    State-building for peace: navigating an arena of contradictions

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This paper stresses how donors need to understand the links between peacebuilding and state-building.
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    Resolving conflicts using traditional mechanisms in the Karamoja and Teso regions of Uganda

    Minority Rights Group International, 2009
    This paper details conflict resolution using traditional community based systems, such as elders’ arbitration councils in the Karamoja and Teso regions of northeast Uganda. It rationalises that the failure of state solutions to resolve conflict necessitates the need to use traditional responses that have been tried and time tested in these communities.
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    Aid and violence: development policies and conflict in Nepal

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
    This paper aims to illustrate how aid policies and conflict are intertwined. It analyses the development/conflict nexus in Nepal over the last decade and includes discussions with aid agencies, donors, and analysts in Kathmandu.
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    The impact of the financial crisis on conflict and state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
    It was thought that Sub-Saharan Africa would be largely unaffected by the financial crisis. However, as many Sub-Saharan African countries are dependent on foreign finance inflows and are even more dependent on commodity based exports, this has been swiftly revised.
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    Peacekeeping and post-conflict criminality. Challenges to the (re-) establishment of rule of law in Liberia

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    This paper explores the scope and nature of criminality in Liberia, and assesses the UN’s peacekeeping operations in the country.
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    Building the state and securing the peace

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    Peace building is a very important facet of achieving lasting poverty reduction in highly fragile states. This paper analyses the operational implications of the strategic framework of  the UK's Department For International Development’s engagement in situations of conflict and fragility. It gives a conceptual understanding of state-building and peace building.

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