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    When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This paper by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) argues for increased focus on the conflict-disaster nexus in fragile and conflict-affected states. It is based on a study assessing the evidence base on the ways in which natural disasters affect conflict, how conflict affects natural disasters and how people are affected by multiple risks.
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    Drugs and the peace process in Colombia

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2012
    It is significant that the drug issue has been included in the agenda of Colombia’s peace process. The illegal drug economy cuts across the country’s internal conflict to a greater or lesser degree. One of the reasons why the lives of most of Colombia’s rural population have deteriorated is resistance to land reform, underpinned in part by drug-trafficking interests.
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    More complex conflict drivers than environment and climate

    Life and Peace Institute, 2012
    While there is a connection between climate variability and conflict in Sudan, the effects are played out in interaction with other conflict-promoting factors as is clearly seen in Darfur. Vulnerability to environmental hazards has generally increased, and growing competition between different livelihood groups promotes conflict as well as environmental degradation.
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    New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)

    The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent academic research and educational institution with students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty.
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    Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS)

    The Strauss Center's program on Climate Change and African Political Stability analyzes how climate change could impact African and international security.
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    The Blue Peace: rethinking Middle East water

    Strategic Foresight Group, 2011
    The objective of this report is to provide a comprehensive, long-term and regional framework for thinking about water in the Middle East, which can be implemented with specific policy decisions, beginning in the immediate future, by individual countries or small groups of countries without waiting for all the countries in the region to move forward.
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    Mediated policy dialogues to address conflict over natural resource governance

    NCCR North South, 2010
    Mistrust and conflict between government departments and local stakeholders form a major barrier to effective natural resource governance in South Asia. In Pakistan, mistrust between forest officials and forest users has led to tension in joint forest management programmes.
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    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

    The Institute spearheads UNU's research and capacity development activities in the broad interdisciplinary field of risk and vulnerability including knowledge-based adaptation and resilience strategie
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    Violation of Land Use Plan and Its Impact on Community Life in Dhaka City

    2008
    Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is experiencing one of the highest rate of urbanization in the world. Over the years, the city has had inconsistent transformation of land use and organic development; which in turn created crisis in residential areas or neighborhoods and affected the city life adversely.
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    Power to the People? Hydropower, indigenous rights, and popular resistance in Guatemala

    Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2010
    The debate about hydropower has recently been revitalised in the context of climate change and the large unmet demand for energy in many countries. This study is a contribution to the debate about hydropower development, indigenous rights, and the rights of affected communities in the face of development projects, presenting Guatemala as a case study. Main findings include: 

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