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  The crushing burden of rape: sexual violence in Darfur

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2005

  This graphic testimonial document highlights the horrific issue of rape as a form of warfare in Darfur, Sudan.
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  Enabling corporate investment in peace: an assessment of voluntary initiatives addressing business and violent conflict, and a framework for policy decision-making

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This report reviews the role of voluntary codes, guidelines and initiatives that address the relationship between business activities and violent civil conflict.
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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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  The impact of HIV/AIDS on humanitarian assistance

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  HIV/AIDS and emergencies are now at the top of the humanitarian policy agenda. The combined effect of climatic, economic and social issues led to a crisis in several countries in southern Africa during 2002–2003. This crisis brought to the forefront the complex interactions between HIV/AIDS, food security, livelihoods and humanitarian action.
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  Better aid delivery or deconcentration of bureaucracy?: a snapshot of the EC's devolution process

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This paper explores the progress of the process of devolution in the European Union’s development and humanitarian assistance programme. In 1990 the European Commission decided that delegations and some beneficiary states should be granted more decision-making authority and this should be formalised in contracts.
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  Land problems in Nakivale settlement and the implications for refugee protection in Uganda

  Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2003

  Ugandan refugee policy is characterised by the encampment of refugees in designated and enclosed settlements in rural areas, removed from the mainstream economic and political activity of the country.
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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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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.
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  Belarus facing dual enlargement: will the EU squeeze harder?

  International Institute for Policy Studies,, Belarus, 2003

  This paper analyses the challenges to the current Belarus leadership presented by the expansion of the EU and NATO. Understanding the Belarus position is important because Belarus is an important transit country, despite the country’s self-imposed isolation.According to the paper, the level of relations between Belarus and the EU is lower than those between the EU and Ukraine and Russia.

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