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    From AMIB to AMISOM: the need for institutional and mandate clarity in APSA

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) is a holistic framework that has existing, permanent bodies set up to deal with every area of its peace and security activities. However, ad-hocism is the major challenge that has been observed in the practices of APSA and African peace operations.
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    Links between climate change, conflict and governance in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    Climate change has repeatedly been called a major threat to Africa. Identically, the risk of climate-induced violent and armed conflict is considered high for the continent. The current paper identifies available policy options and recommends mitigating measures to counter these perceived effects of climate change in Africa.
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    Counter-terrorism, human rights and the rule of law in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This paper argues that this decade presents new opportunities for more nuanced, palatable, realistic and interlinked strategies, on the part of African governments, to promote principled counter-terrorist practice and policy in ways the reduce rather than exacerbate the longer-term threat.
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    Besides greed and grievances: natural resource characteristics and conflicts in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    The relationship between natural resources and conflict is not new, yet a more holistic understanding of the relationship between natural resources and conflict requires an appreciation of the role of natural resource characteristics.
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    African Standby Force police roster system: proposed features, operations and processes

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    Although Africa hosts most peacekeeping missions, the rest of the world seems to be reluctant to deploy forces to the continent. Therefore, Africa needs to develop its own peacekeeping capabilities more than any other region.
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    Debates in post-conflict development in Africa: lessons for development agencies

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    Luckily, many post-conflict settings benefit from high levels of international attention and domestic optimism in the immediate aftermath of transition, with no lack of external actors drawn from the diaspora, private sector investors and a plethora of international aid organisations. Yet, channeling this attention towards improved development outcomes is difficult.
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    Internal and external dilemmas of peacebuilding in Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    Peacebuilding, as a distinct area of international engagement, developed in the early 1990s within the context of the reform of the conflict prevention and peacekeeping capacity of the UN.
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    The security sector in Southern Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    This monograph is a study of the security sector in six Southern African countries, namely Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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    The Adaptation Fund, Clean Development Mechanism and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Fund: some national and subnational experiences

    Center for Security Studies, 2011
    With developing countries anticipating the flow of billions of dollars from developed countries to address the devastating impacts of climate change, it is important to recognise that the amounts of funding, the number of institutions involved and coherence in the global architecture will be meaningless without there being democratic governance of the funds at the local level.
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    Stalled UN Security Council reform: time to consider resetting policy?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2011
    South Africa, Brazil, India, Germany and others have been pushing for reform of the United Nations (UN) Security Council that would realise their ambitions to secure permanent seats on the Security Council. But at the end of 2011, 20 years since the reform momentum began, the process is stalled.

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