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    Putting the 'R' back into DDR

    Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, 2007
    The paper asserts that dealing with ex-combatants following war or armed political conflict is a complex and challenging task. Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes have been attempted across the globe with varying levels of success. Success of DDR is relatively easy to assess in terms of cessation of hostilities or weapons decommissioned i.e.
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    Meeting the challenge of conflict prevention in Africa: towards the operationalization of the continental early warning system

    African Union, 2008
    In January 2007,  the African Union endorsed the operationalization of the Continental Early Warning System (CEWS). The authors note that the Somalia and Rwanda disasters were the genesis of the establishment of CEWS as a way of  strengthening prevention mechanisms.
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    Trading for peace: achieving security and poverty reduction through trade in natural resources in the Great Lakes area

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    In October 2006, COMESA and two developmental organisations embarked on a research project “Trading for Peace”. The project sought to deepen understanding of the links between trade in natural resources, governance and stability in the Great Lakes region. Indeed, the project built collaboration at the community level and among different groups across borders.
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    Views and visions of coexistence in South Africa

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2008
    South Africa was a ‘brave new world’ in 1994. Emerging from generations of painful segregated existence its people were charged with creating a peaceful, co-existing, egalitarian society which sought to correct injustice and tolerate no racial bar. Of course, it is a long process with much more work ahead, however, what can be learned from the South African experience?
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    Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? And what do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich areas? This synthesis paper takes stock of what social science research has to say about these questions. The author reviews the academic literature on resource wealth and conflict.
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    Consolidating disarmament: lessons from Colombia’s reintegration program for demobilized paramilitaries

    United States Institute of Peace, 2008
    This paper provides an assessment of the disarmament programme undertaken by Colombia in particular a disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program. The paper finds that program progressed surprisingly smoothly through disarmament and demobilization but has stumbled on reintegration.
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    The gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction: the challenges in development aid

    Gender Action, 2009
    This chapter constructs a framework for understanding the gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction (PCR), in order to strengthen assessments, project design, and policy-formulation with the aim of achieving sustainable peace, participation and prosperity.
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    Governance in post-conflict situations: the case of Rwanda

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2004
    Rwanda is instructive for reflections on the challenges of social and political reconstruction in the aftermath of a civil war and the genocide of 1994.This paper says that Rwanda has progressively made remarkable strides in recovering from the devastating loss of human capacity and destruction of much of basic social and economic infrastructure.
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    Governance in post-conflict situations: the case of Cambodia

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2004
    Over thirty years of civil strife ruined the Cambodia’s social institutions, annihilated the economy and completely destroyed the human capital. As a post-conflict society, this country is facing tremendous challenges in governance, combating poverty and improving the living standards of the citizens.
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    Economic incentives for peacebuilding

    Program for states and security, 2008
    This paper assesses and presents what social science literature tells us about economic incentives for peacebuilding. It mentions that a variety of such incentives exists in post-civil war situations.

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