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  Ethnicity, state power and the democratisation process in Uganda

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2002

  Is ethnicity the cause for the breakdowns in national unity, democracy and development in Uganda? This paper critically reviews the impact of ethnicity on the democratisation process in Uganda from colonialism to the present. The author argues that ethnicity in Uganda, as elsewhere on the African continent, has been historically constructed and subsequently reproduced.
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  Collateral damage: the health and environmental costs of war on Iraq

  Medact, 2002

  Argues that a war on Iraq could cause half a million deaths and have a devastating impact on the lives, health and environment of the combatants, Iraqi civilians, and people in neighbouring countries and beyond. It examines the likely impact of a new war on Iraq from a public health perspective.
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  The integration process of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria in the post-cold war era: parallel trends in minority treatment in Greece and Turkey

  Budapest Economics, Hungary, 2002

  How has Bulgaria, just across the border of war-torn former Yugoslavia, achieved improvements in both the treatment of its largest minority, the Bulgarian Turks, and inter-state relations with its kin state the Republic of Turkey?
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  Conserving the peace: resources, livelihoods and security

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2002

  This book developed from meetings between conservationists and those in the UK government concerned with security and conflict prevention.The book is based on the premise that environmental mismanagement and resource scarcity, alone or in conjunction with other forces, can have such a destabilizing impact on communities and societies that they may experience high levels of insecurity and even s
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  Transition without transformation: civil society and the transition seesaw in Kenya

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  Kenya is experiencing a process of multiple transitions whose elements are for the most part incongruent and counter-productive. The author argues that the most pronounced tension in this process is that between the universal (western) modes of democratic transition and the ethno-traditional modes that are denigrated as illiberal and undemocratic.
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  Making a killing: the business of war

  Center for Public Integrity, Washington, 2002

  This paper argues that the superpower ideological divide that once gave a strange sort of order to the world’s wars, has now been replaced by entrepreneurs, selling arms or military expertise and support, and companies, whose drilling and mining in some of the hottest spots often prolong conflict and instability.The military downsizing that followed the end of the Cold War flooded the market wi
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  Reflections on globalisation, security and 9/11

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 2002

  This working paper argues that globalisation provides a number of conceptual insights to assist understanding of the contemporary security agenda following 9/11.
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  The hidden costs of ethnic conflict: decomposing trends in educational outcomes of young Kosovars

  World Bank, 2002

  This paper examines the impact of ethnic segmentation in education on educational outcomes between 1991 and the late 1990s when the Albanian Kosovar population received education services in an informal system parallel to the official one.The authors find that the last decade of ethnic conflict has claimed a substantial toll on the educational outcomes of the Albanian Kosovars.
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  Iraq, sanctions and the war against terrorism

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2002

  This document looks at the "new" UN sanctions regime against Iraq in the context of the fight against terrorism and offers some directions for further reflection with regard to humanitarian assistance and development policy in general.The author assesses the differing levels of sanctions applied to the 8 countries on the Terrorism List and the current state of thinking in different official for
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  Review of studies of the economic impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center

  Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2002

  Comparative assessment of key reports from different organisations regarding the economic impact of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre buildings in New York City. The paper aimed to objectively explore the studies and estimations of each organisation's report, and determine if they meet standard economic criteria for analysing economic impacts.

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