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  Change, violence and insecurity in non-conflict situations

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper examines the relationship between levels of violence and insecurity in areas undergoing rural-urban change. This is a central issue for the security and development agenda.
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  The 2005 NPT conference in crisis: risks and opportunities

  The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, 2005

  Overview article produced to coincide with the Seventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), New York, May 2005.The author suggests that generally pessimistic predictions of the outcome of the conference are missing the major point: what is at stake is not the fate of a document or conference, but the future of international security.
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  Endless war: the global war on terror and the new Bush administration

  Oxford Research Group, UK, 2005

  This briefing paper argues that one year on from the Madrid train bombing and two years from the start of the Iraq war, the US-led 'war or terror' has no end in sight.The paper reviews the factors that lie behind current US policies in the war on terror, the role of neoconservatism and its relationship with the rise of Christian Zionism.
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  Fragile states strategy

  US Agency for International Development, 2005

  This strategy sets out how USAID can most effectively respond to fragile states.
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  Resource pack on conflict sensitive approaches

  Conflict Sensitive Approaches to Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Peace building: Tools for Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment, 2004

  The Resource Pack is designed for governments, donors and civil society (local and international) involved in development, humanitarian assistance and peace building.
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  Arab Human Development Report 2004: towards freedom in the Arab world

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2005

  This is the third Arab Human Development Report. It provides a thorough examination of the deficit of freedom and good governance, within the region and abroad. It aims to stimulate a dialogue in Arab societies on how to expand freedom nd establish good governance.
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  Sensitivity analysis of the empirical literature on civil war onset

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2005

  This paper examines the causes of a civil war.
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  Darfur: livelihoods under siege

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 2005

  This draft report presents findings of a study to investigate the effects of the current conflict and humanitarian crisis on the livelihoods of selected communities in Darfur, in order to refine strategic humanitarian interventions.The study focused on labour migration, livestock production and trade, and on communities’ links with central and eastern Sudan and with Libya.It traces the sourc
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  Peacebuilding: a development perspective

  Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2004

  This paper discusses the strategic framework for Norway’s role in peacebuilding. The strategy has three, mutually reinforcing dimensions: security, political development and social and economic development.
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  Fighting poverty to build a safer world: a strategy for security and development

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This document sets out a strategy to show how the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID), through its commitment to fighting poverty, can help tackle insecurity among the poor. It explains the Department's approach to the complex but important connections between security and development.

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