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  Mind the gap: policy development and research on conflict issues

  Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, 2005

  This report presents the findings of a project examining the relationship between the research and policy worlds, looking at the extent to which, if any, research on conflict issues is being used in the development of policy.
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  Investing in prevention: an international strategy to manage risks of instability and improve crisis response

  Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, UK Government, 2005

  This report analyses the challenges raised by countries at risk of instability (CRI) and recommends how the UK can improve its strategic response to them.It argues that increased and continued conflict and state failure will have direct impact on the UK by preventing efforts to tackle terrorism and organised crime, condemning countries to prolonged poverty, stimulating refugee flows and threate
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  On the brink: weak states and US national security

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2004

  This report outlines shortcomings in the United States’ policy towards nations on the verge of collapse or recovering from conflict, and presents an action framework for improvement.The Commission identified three capability gaps that differentiate a troubled or weak state from simply a poor one:the security gap: where the state is failing to control territory and protect citizens from
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  Symposium on the relationship between disarmament and development

  United Nations [UN] Department for Disarmament Affairs, 2004

  This document is a collection of three papers supporting UN research on the relationship between disarmament and development. A group of Governmental Experts has been examining the relationship between disarmament and development in the existing international context, as it is shaped by new challenges to security.
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  The relationship between disarmament and development in the current international context

  United Nations [UN] Department for Disarmament Affairs, 2004

  The report of the Group of Governmental Experts provides a reappraisal of the disarmament-development relationship and the role of the UN in this connection, taking into account all the major international changes that have taken place since the adoption of the Final Document of the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development in 1987.In particular, the revie
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  Preparing the ground for peace: mine action in support of peacebuilding

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  Mine action is an established part of conflict interventions but it’s potential role in peacebuilding, both during and after a conflict, is often overlooked. This report explores the interface between mine action and peacebuilding.. The discussion is rooted in case studies from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Sudan, but also draws upon interviews and literature reviews from other sources.
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  Why we need to work more effectively in fragile states

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper lays out DfID’s commitment to working more effectively in fragile states.
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  Aid allocation and fragile states

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of OECD DAC research on aid allocation to fragile states.Fragile states as a group have not only been under-aided but aid flows have also been twice as volatile as those to other low income countries, even when changes such as the onset or cessation of conflict and large performance changes are
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  Counter terror operations: limitations to security forces

  Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2002

  Although the use of force has been considered to be one of the many tools of counter-terror operations, it appears to be the only exercised choice in India. Given this over-reliance, the paper claims that there exists little difference between counterinsurgency and counter-terror operations from the point of use of military force.
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  Oil and water in Sudan

  African Centre for Technology Studies, 2004

  Sudan, a nation of 36 million people wracked by conflict for 34 of the last 45 years, has generated some four million displaced people during the course of its war. It is estimated that over two million Sudanese people have died as a result of fighting and related starvation and disease. Most conventional analyses have focussed on the identity-based dichotomies to explain the conflict.

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