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  Report on the current position with regard to the security sector in Ethiopia

  SSRonline, 2003

  This brief report is an overview of the current situation of the security sector in Ethiopia, and presents the challenges for a broadening of the current reform in Ethiopia.The review argues for an extension of the reform to the security sector and a need to look at the critical connection between security and development.
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  Foreign aid: resurgent new spirit or old hangover?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper explores the future prospects of development aid. In order to do so, the paper first looks at the decline of aid in the 1990’s, and the sudden increase in development aid that can be noticed in the last few years.
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  South Asia: counter-terrorism policies and postures after 9/11

  Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2004

  India has been engaged in counter-terrorism efforts since the 1980s, having diverted massive amounts of financial and military resources towards addressing low-intensity conflicts that characterise terrorist activities. There has, however, been no coordinated policy-level effort to address the issue of counter-terrorism, and most of India’s reactions to events has been ad-hoc.
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  Law and counterterrorism: the Prevention of Terrorism Act in a strategic dimension

  Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2004

  To date, India’s policy-level response to terrorism has been ad-hoc at best. The recently passed Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) attempts to address the most critical dilemma facing democracies – how to maintain security while upholding civil liberties.
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  India-Bangladesh: restoring sovereignty on neglected borders

  Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2003

  India’s border with Bangladesh covers a length of 4095 kilometres, abutting the states of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura. Nearly 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are thought to be living in India, 10 million in West Bengal and Assam alone.
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  Broken vows: exposing the loupe holes in the diamond industry’s efforts to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds

  Global Witness, 2004

  This paper evaluates how well the US diamond industry is complying with self-regulation established to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds, known as the ‘Kimberley Process’.The paper finds compliance with the Kimberley Process among companies surveyed ‘abysmal’:only five of the thirty retailers sent information on their policies on conflict diamonds when requestedthere were low
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  Shell in Nigeria

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report aims to raise stakeholder's awareness to Shell's operations in Nigeria The report particularly focusing on Shell's failed relationship with local communities, the potential for aggravating civil conflict an the lack of organisational transparency.
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  Pakistan’s Nuclear blackmarketing: North Korea, Iran and Libya

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004

  Over the past two years, deep institutional and strategic linkages have been revealed between Pakistan and North Korea, Iran and Libya. Pakistani technology, know-how, and in some cases physical components have been found in each of the three aforementioned nuclear programmes.
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  A conflict of interests: the uncertain future of Burma's forests

  Global Witness, 2004

  Burma is resource rich, and principal among these resources is timber.
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  Suicide terrorism in Sri Lanka

  Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2004

  This study focuses on the perpetrators of suicide terrorism by synthesizing literature on their psychological and sociological motives. Suicide terrorists have changed the entire manifestation of conflict in Sri Lanka, causing unparallel damage to military and civilian infrastructure alike.

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