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  Assessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.
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  Fatal transactions: an investigation into the illicit diamond trade

  Financial Times, 2000

  Report looks at the role of diamond sales in funding of conflict situations, focusing on countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Angola.Website includes reports from the newspaper, plus an online dicussion forum
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  Conflict Diamonds

  Global Witness, 2000

  Outlines recommendations for a global diamond certification and verification system to be monitored by an independent diamond verification organisation and to be backed up by industry self-regulation and government legislation.
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  From conflict to consensus: towards joint management of natural resources by pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in the zone of Kishi Beiga, Burkina Faso

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2000

  This article explores the breakdown of complementarity between agriculture and livestock in the Kishi Beiga area in the north of Burkina Faso.
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  The politics of coherence: humanitarianism and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2000

  Examines the idea of coherence between political and humanitarian action which emerged in the aftermath of the Rwandan experience. It analyses the evolution of the concept in the last decade and its implications for the relationship between humanitarian and political action.
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  Paper tiger, hidden dragons: the responsibility of international financial institutions for Indonesian forest destruction, social conflict and the financial crisis of Asia Pulp & Paper

  Friends of the Earth, 2001

  This report documents the environmental and social impacts of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), assesses the role of international financial institutions in fuelling APP’s unsustainable and damaging operations and examines the link between this unsustainable practice and APP's financial crisis.Financial institutions should acknowledge that it is far more than the financial failure of APP that proves tha
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  Paradise is a bazaar?: greed, creed, grievance and governance

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This study examines the relative merits of grievance-based explanations of civil conflict that stress 'Malthusian crises', and 'creed-related,' civilizational clashes against competing propositions of greed- and governance-related explanations.The results from maximum-likelihood analyses on approximately 139 countries over the entire post-Cold War period find little support for Malthusian propo
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  Displacement, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reparation and Development [as a result of dams]

  World Commission on Dams, 2000

  Reviews recent practices relating to displacement, resettlement, rehabilitation and development of people negatively affected by the construction of dams, in order to locate the global experiences in dam induced displacement and understand the socio-political context of displacement and resettlement.
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  Saving lives and livelihoods: the fundamentals of a livelihoods strategy

  Feinstein International Center, USA, 1997

  Paper presents set of principles as the basis of a livelihoods strategy for complex emergencies and suggests appropriate actions to implement measures.Principles and actions suggested include: rigorous assessment - prepare relief workers to act strategically, move beyond distributing free relief, formulate country strategies aggressive capacity building - capacity assessm

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