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    Children and armed conflicts in Africa: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    In order to achieve effective protection of war-affected children in Africa, a broad range of institutions and mechanisms exist which have the potential to advocate, report on, and monitor the rights of children caught up in violent conflict.
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    Southern Africa: building an effective security and governance architecture for the 21st century

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    In the last two decades, southern African countries have made great strides in achieving more democraticmodes of governance.
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    Preventing genocide and the responsibility to protect: challenges for the UN, Africa, and the international community: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    Over the past two decades, there has been increasing acceptance – in policy and academic circles and within the United Nations (UN) itself – of the protection responsibilities of governments towards their citizens.
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    EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a new century: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    This report examines the relationship between Africa and Europe in the 21st Century, and investigates whether this relationship is one of habit or is of real strategic importance to both parties.
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    Security and development in Southern Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    Several southern African states have been involved in UN peacekeeping operations, while two sub-regional interventions were launched in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Lesotho in 1998.
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    HIV/AIDS and Militaries in Africa: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2009
    The scale of Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic means that large percentages of military populations are, or will be, infected by HIV. The litany of potential consequences ensuing from HIV/AIDS illnesses and deaths have included: a heavy toll on decision-making command structures; rising costs in re-training highly-skilled personnel; and delayed deployment to international peace operations.
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    Conflict transformation and peacebuilding in Southern Africa: civil society, governments, and traditional leaders

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    Following independence from colonial rule in Africa, most countries with a history of traditional institutions of governance in southern Africa such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Botswana, have incorporated traditional leaders into the constitutional government structures inherited from western colonial powers.
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    Three blind men and an elephant: The Case of energy indices to measure energy security and sustainability

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    An 'Energy Index', which is aggregated from energy indicators is a rich source of information and is helpful in providing an assessment of a country's performance. This has, however, resulted in mushrooming of a plethora of indices, which claim to quantify the performance of a country in attaining the goal of energy security and energy sustainability.
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    The new partnership for Africa's security: the United Nations, regional organisations and future security threats in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2004
    Pursuant to its vision and mission objectives of promoting peaceful conflict resolution in Africa, the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) Cape Town, South Africa, in collaboration with the Fredrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) offices in South Africa and Mozambique, and the United Nations Foundation (UNF) office in New York, organised olicy seminar May 2004 in Cape Town.
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    South Africa in Africa: The post-Apartheid decade

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2005
    In 2004, South Africa celebrated ten years of democracy. Among many stock-taking exercises, it seemed opportune to reflect on the role that the country has played on the African continent and the challenges that persist in South Africa’s domestic transformation.

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