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  Investing in stability: conflict risk, markets and the bottom-line

  United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2004

  While the role of extractive industries in violent conflicts in developing countries has received much international attention and efforts to promote greater corporate responsibility, similar issues also face financial institutions which invest in conflict situations.
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  Global survey on education in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  This report presents information gathered by the Global Survey on Education in Emergencies (Global Survey). It attempts to fill a gap in information about how many refugee, displaced and returnee children and youth globally have access to education and the nature of the education they receive.The report consists of three parts.
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  Health care between war and peace: an exploration of issues and strategies

  HealthNet International, 1997

  This is the first discussion paper for HealthNet International (HNI), which delivers health care in post-conflict situations in low-income countries. The paper aims to inform a better policy framework for this organisation, as neither conventional relief nor development policies adequately apply to HNI operations.
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  Reforming hospital systems in turbulent times

  London School of Economics (=British Library for Political and Economic Science (BLPES)), 2001

  The countries of central and eastern Europe and central Asia have embarked, to varying extents over the last decade, on a process of restructuring their hospital dominated health care systems. In doing so they have, however, encountered considerable barriers.
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  Human Rights Watch World Report 2004: human rights and armed conflict

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This 407-page report includes 15 essays on a variety of subjects related to war and human rights, from Africa to Afghanistan, from sexual violence as a method of warfare to the new trends in post-conflict international justice.
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  Conflictual peacebuilding: Afghanistan two years after Bonn

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This study assesses developments in Afghanistan since 2002. It focuses on examining developments in relation to the policy framework, looking at the Bonn Agreement 2001, which formulated principles of political development and a precise strategy for the transition period.
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  Capitalizing on conflict: how logging and mining contribute to environmental destruction in Burma

  EarthRights International, 2003

  This paper presents information illustrating how trade in timber, gems, and gold is financing violent conflict, including widespread and gross human rights abuses, in Burma.
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  Sudan, oil, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.
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  Options for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector

  International Peace Academy, 2002

  This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.
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  Rethinking principles of assessment in complex emergencies: the food economy alternative

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  When aid agencies respond to food needs in situations of chronic conflict and political instability (SCCPI), do they consider livelihoods carefully enough? How can they better analyse the effects of hazards on household access to food and income? Is it possible to increase communication between political economists and food security analysts?

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