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  Building a new Iraq: women’s role in reconstruction women’s role in strengthening civil society

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003

  This paper summarises the conclusions of a forum on women’s roles in post-conflict Iraq, particularly focusing on women’s roles in civil society, government, economic growth, and security. The authors state that a number of factors will be essential to maximising women’s rights and roles in post-conflict Iraq.
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  Providing security for people: security sector reform in Africa

  SSRonline, 2003

  This document is a collection of articles about Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Africa. They emphasise the importance of viewing SSR programmes in a multi-disciplinary way, and as a practice that involves the sequencing of many programme areas.The paper argues that SSR sequencing strategies can be better guided by macro-level strategic policy, which also helps develop more local integration.
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  No place like home?: children’s experiences of reintegration in the Kailahun District of Sierra Leone

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This report focuses on children’s well-being once back in their villages or towns of origin after reintegration in Sierra Leone.Save the Children UK conducted group discussions and in-depth interviews on the reintegration process with 211 girls and boys from the Kailahun district of Sierra Leone. Both ex-child soldiers and other separated children were included in the research.
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  Ethnicity, discrimination and the tragedy of the commons: empirical evidence from a sample of African countries

  Metafro Infosys, 2003

  This paper argues that ethnic diversity does not hinder economic growth.The author argues against other work on ethnicity and growth that conclude ethnic diversity promotes violence and adversely affects public policy choices.
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  Development–military interfaces: new challenges in crises and post-conflict situations

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2004

  This study looks at the different relations between development policy and the military in crises and post-conflict situations. It analyses the views of the actors involved, including development and humanitarian NGOS, and looks at the existing development-military interfaces.
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  No security without development? No development without security: comments on current trends in EU foreign policy

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  According to the new catch-phrase, there can be no peace without development and conversely, no development without peace.
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  Classification of natural resources for armed civil conflict research

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper focuses on recent research that identifies natural resource abundance as a factor that significantly increases the risk of conflict.
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  Conflict Mediation and Culture: Gambian techniques and perspectives

  Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 2003

  There has been a surge of interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) since the 1970s. The United Nations, regional organizations, the World Bank, NGOs, development agencies, and others all want to be involved in or associated with “conflict resolution.” One of the main tools of the field is conflict mediation.
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  Afghanistan: World Bank approach paper

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper presents the World Bank approach to reconstruction in Afghanistan. It also includes background information on the situation in Afghanistan, including a review of the economy and international assistance.
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  The conflict dimension of environmental degradation and the case of Lesotho

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2003

  This article describes the effects of conflict on the environment and environmental management, focussing on Lesotho, a country historically affected by environmental degradation problems such as devegetation, soil erosion, and desertification.

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