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  Human security report 2005: war and peace in the 21st Century

  Human Security Centre, 2005

  The first Human Security Report presents a comprehensive and evidence-based portrait of global security.
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  Diamonds, foreign aid, and the uncertain prospects for post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This article examines the external and internal dimensions and resources of post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone. Foreign aid represents the bulk of the external sources of support, though its imminent reduction is a significant concern.
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  Human security: linking development and security in an age of terror

  European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, 2005

  Human security is commonly understood as prioritising the security of people, especially their welfare, safety and well-being, rather than that of states.
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  Exploring religious conflict

  RAND Corporation, 2005

  This report summarises the proceedings from workshop that brought intelligence and religious analysts together to assess religious motivations in international politics and discover what may cause religiously rooted violence, and how states have sought to take advantage of or contain religious violence.
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  The Iraq quagmire: the mounting costs of war and the case for bringing home the troops

  Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 2005

  This report takes a comprehensive look at the human, economic, social, security, environmental, and human rights costs of the war in Iraq and the ensuing occupation. It then provides what it calls an exit strategy: a plan to bring the troops home and internationalise the peace, arguing that instead of helping make Iraq safer and more stable, U.S.
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  How much weight for military capabilities? Africa's new peace and security architecture and the role of external actors

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2005

  Peace and security have become a priority issue for the African continent itself, but also for the international community. The author argues that past events clearly indicate that mechanisms put in place by African nations themselves (e.g.
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  Dissuading terror: strategic influence and the struggle against terrorism

  RAND Corporation, 2005

  This paper argues that the United States' anti-terrorist measures must include stategic influence as part of government policy, aimed at dissuading terrorists from attacking the United States, diverting youths from joining terrorist groups, and persuading the leaders of states and nongovernmental institutions to withhold support for terrorists.The report addresses the role of strategic influenc
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  Canadian energy and mining companies navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st century

  Ethical Funds Company, 2005

  With a particular focus on the impact of mining and energy companies in conflict countries, this paper examines the body of International law regarding human rights violations.It highlights the following points:American, British, French, and Canadian companies have been implicated in crimes when contracting host country security forces to protect corporate assets and/or after building t
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  The missing piece of the puzzle: caste discrimination and the conflict in Nepal

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2005

  This report documents the impact of Nepal's decade-old civil war on its most vulnerable citizens - Dalits or so-called untouchables.Nepal is increasingly under scrutiny for human rights violations committed by state security forces and Maoist insurgents.
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  Privatisation of conflict, security and war

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2005

  The paper assesses the general trend towards privatisation, in the developed as well as the developing world, where even high politics is increasingly performed by, or outsourced to, non-state actors.

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