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    Gorillas in the midst: assessing the peace and conflict impacts of international gorilla conservation programme (IGCP) activities

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Conservation work in conflict zones and across international borders has impacts on more than just wildlife populations and their habitats. It can also have a profound effect on the peace and conflict dynamics in a region.
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    Inclusive security, sustainable peace: a toolkit for advocacy and action (updated)

    Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2007
    This toolkit is a resource for women peace builders and practitioners to effectively promote peace and security. It outlines the components of peacebuilding from conflict prevention to post-conflict reconstruction, highlights the role that women play in each phase, and is directed to women peace builders and the policy community. The main goals of the toolkit are to:
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    Gender and landmines - from concept to practice

    Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines, 2008
    The relevance of gender has taken time to impose itself clearly to anti landmine programmers, decision-makers, implementers, donors, and stakeholders working in the area of mine action.The main treaties regulating general mine action activities (the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its additional Protocol II) are gender blind and do not explicitly discuss the
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    Conflict diamonds and peace process in Côte d’Ivoire

    Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2008
    With a focus on conflict diamonds, this paper discusses the peace process in Côte D’Ivoire. It looks at a short history of diamonds in the region, the United Nations role, and the Kimberley Process (KP) before summarising key lessons learned and recommendations.
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    People’s Republic of China: the Olympics countdown – broken promises

    Amnesty International, 2008
    In the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, this paper assesses progress made by the Chinese authorities to improve human rights in line with their own commitments made in 2001 when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chose Beijing to host the Games.
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    Not always in the people’s interest: power-sharing arrangements in African Peace Agreements

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2008
    Peace agreements form a crucial element of strategies to bring security from outside: they involve third-party mediators during the negotiation stage and often peacekeeping troops to guarantee the agreement at an implementation stage. This paper reviews parts of the academic debate on power sharing and war termination, touching on some key findings by the main researchers working on the topic.
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    The European Union, civil society and conflict transformation

    Microcon, 2008
    This paper provides a conceptual framework and discussion to analyse which local civil society actors play a role in conflict and conflict transformation. It also aims to determine their effectiveness, and how European Union (EU) neighbourhood policies can enhance their constructive impact in peacefully transforming conflicts.
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    The search for sustainable democracy, development and peace: the Sierra Leone 2007 elections

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This collaborative work discusses Sierra Leone’s quest for sustainable democracy, peace and development. It traces the problems back to the root and examines what course the future might take and what is needed for the country to exist in a state of peace and development.
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    Paramilitary demobilisation in Colombia: between peace and justice

    Fride, 2008
    Since President Álvaro Uribe took office in August 2002 a dialogue process and subsequent demobilisation of paramilitary groups has taken place in Colombia, with 31,671 members of illegal armed groups pledging to lay down their arms.
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    The past is always present: the Moros of Mindanao and the quest for peace

    Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University, Hong Kong, 2008
    With a focus on the Philippines, this paper looks at the quest for peace and the impact of the past. It asks what the roots of conflict in Mindanao are, the American role in creating the problem, the role of counter-terrorism, and what the current prospects for peace are held with the present initiatives.

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