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    Deconstructing cyber security in Brazil: threats and responses

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    Brazil is doubling down on its cyber-security architecture while simultaneously consolidating its emerging power status. Although organised crime is one of the major threats to Brazilian cyberspace, resources are focused instead on military solutions better suited to the exceptional case of warfare.
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    Ebola and lessons for development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground. These fundamentally challenge our understanding of ‘development’ as framed and practised in past decades.
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    Global governance and the limits of health security

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests. International efforts to strengthen ‘health security’ quickly faltered when confronted with weak national health systems.
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    Return of the rebel: legacies of war and reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola epidemic

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the reconstruction efforts are key to understanding how the virus has spread. The dynamics of warfare tied into and accentuated the state’s remoteness from many people.
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    Ebola and extractive industry

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore geological beltway.
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    The silent dangers of quarrying

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001
    Quarrying contributes significantly to the Philippines' infrastructure and overall economic development. Notwithstanding its importance, however, it is a major natural resource extractive sector that causes significant environmental problems. And the sooner we understand the nature and extent of its destruction and be able to do something to address it, the better.
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    Non-political drivers of violence

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This Helpdesk Report answers the following query: Please identify and summarise recent literature on non-political drivers of violence. Any insights on middle-income country fragility/conflict would be particularly useful.A growing body of literature looks at non-political drivers of violence. These, often inter-related factors, include:
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    Understanding the Casamance conflict: A background

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2010
    For the first decade of independence, West Africa became the theater of numerous armed conflicts. Whether it was bloody coups d’état, rebellions or violent separatist projects, no single West African country has escaped armed intervention in its politics.
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    Oil, corruption and conflict in West Africa: The failure of governance and corporate social responsibility

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2005
    Natural resources are a noted cause of intra-state conflict and deserve recognition as such by ECOWAS. Oil, in particular, is linked to frequent civil strife and conflicts induced by slow rates of economic growth, weak and undemocratic governments, rampant corruption and heavy militarization.
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    Somalian piracy: an alternative perspective

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2010
    The tendency of nation States to attempt solving the problem of modern piracy exclusively through the employment of their naval and military might is a flawed effort and has, more often than not, proved unsuccessful. At best, it has resulted in a temporary suppression of the problem that has inevitably re-manifested itself at a later stage.

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