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Searching with a thematic focus on Stakeholders in conflict, Conflict and security, Drivers of conflict

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  Sudan, oil, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.
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  Options for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector

  International Peace Academy, 2002

  This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.
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  Making a killing: the business of war

  Center for Public Integrity, Washington, 2002

  This paper argues that the superpower ideological divide that once gave a strange sort of order to the world’s wars, has now been replaced by entrepreneurs, selling arms or military expertise and support, and companies, whose drilling and mining in some of the hottest spots often prolong conflict and instability.The military downsizing that followed the end of the Cold War flooded the market wi
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  Extractive Sectors and the Poor

  Oxfam, 2001

  This paper examines how states that rely on oil and mineral exports address the concerns of the poor. Its central finding is that oil and mineral dependence are strongly associated with unusually bad conditions for the poor.
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  Human rights, religious conflict, and globalization: ultimate values in a new world order

  Management of Social Transformations Clearing House, 1999

  The belief in innate human rights has achieved quasi-religious status in the late-modern world.
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  The Muslim Identity and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Kashmir

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Examines the role of religion in the formation and assertion of political identity in Kashmir. The issue has been highlighted by the rise of Islamic militancy in the 1990s.
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  Central Asia: Islamist mobilisation and regional security

  International Crisis Group, 2001

  This article deals with the issue of Islamic radical activity in Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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  Fatal transactions: an investigation into the illicit diamond trade

  Financial Times, 2000

  Report looks at the role of diamond sales in funding of conflict situations, focusing on countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Angola.Website includes reports from the newspaper, plus an online dicussion forum
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  Displacement, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reparation and Development [as a result of dams]

  World Commission on Dams, 2000

  Reviews recent practices relating to displacement, resettlement, rehabilitation and development of people negatively affected by the construction of dams, in order to locate the global experiences in dam induced displacement and understand the socio-political context of displacement and resettlement.

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