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  Disarmament, demobilisation and rearmament?

  Japan Afghan NGO Network, 2005

  This report argues that serious problems undermine the Japanese-sponsored Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme for Afghan Militia Forces, suggesting it may in fact have caused rearmament.
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  Environment and peace: steady progress since 1972

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005

  Environmental degradation and the exploitation of natural resources are recognized as important drivers of violence between and within states, contributing to poverty and state failure.This paper charts evolving understanding of the complex relationship between environmental change and security, a debate that has developed considerably since the UN Conference on the Human Environment, held in S
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  Commerce and conflict: Angola & DiamondWorks

  Country Indicators for Foreign Policy, 2005

  By applying a template for risk assessment to the operations of the Canadian company DiamondWorks in Angola during the 1990’s, this report highlights the complex and dynamic interplay of commerce and conflict.
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  Peace and conflict 2005: a global survey of armed conflicts, self-determination movements, and democracy

  Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, 2005

  This report details major trends in armed conflict, self-determination movements, and democracy through the years 1946-2004.
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  No Relief: surveying the effects of gun violence on humanitarian and development personnel

  Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2005

  This report details the findings of an action-oriented research project undertaken from 2003–2004 referred to as the In the Line of Fire project. It constitutes the largest victimisation survey of humanitarian and development workers ever undertaken.
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  From warlords to peacelords: local leadership capacity in peace processes

  Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, 2005

  This project report seeks to explain what the authors describe as the bitter irony that holds true of many conflicts: why many of the local political leaders who played such a central part in perpetuating conflict remain a public feature in the subsequent peace processes.
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  Local determinants of African civil wars, 1970–2001

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2005

  This study examines local determinants of civil wars in Africa from 1970-2001 using a research methodology where grid cells (100x100 km), rather than countries, are the cross-sectional unit of analysis.
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  Security sector reform in Armenia

  Saferworld, 2005
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  Islamic terrorism in the Sahel: fact or fiction?

  International Crisis Group, 2005

  This paper looks at Islamist activity in the four Sahelian countries of Mali, Niger, Chad and Mauritania.
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  Counter-terrorism laws: the Supreme Court on confessions

  Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2005

  The lack of a consistent policy backed by serious research and public debate remains a crucial drawback with counter-terrorism legislation in India. Political expediency and the fulfilment of populist pre-election promises and postures, and not well considered security concerns, appear to be the only and overwhelming reasons for such enactments.

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