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    Conflict mediation in the water and sanitation sector: and how to reach solutions

    IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2008
    Water scarcity is just one problem that may lead to conflicts. Others include conflicts over water quality or privatisation of water supply services. This paper explores current thinking about conflict management in the water and sanitation sector and is written for individuals who want to understand more about the way to analyse, understand and help to manage conflicts.
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    MEAs, conservation and conflict. A case study of Virunga National Park, DRC

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    Focusing on the case of Virunga National Park (PNVi) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this paper looks at Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and the impact of ongoing conflict. It also discusses opportunities for elevating environment-conflict issues to international policy levels to help save important ecosystems in times of conflict.
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    Environmental peacebuilding theory and practice: a case study of the Good Water Neighbours Project and in depth analysis of the Wadi Fukin/Tzur Hadassah communities

    EcoPeace Friends of the Earth Middle East, 2008
    Whilst the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not stem from an ecological cause, issues such as water supply and water scarcity, pollution of groundwater and solid waste management are important regional issues and a shared burden on all sides of the border.
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    Sustainable forestry in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the way out of poverty and conflict

    Both ENDS, 2008
    This paper focuses on sustainable forestry in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and what role it can play.
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    Participatory water monitoring: a guide for preventing and managing conflict

    The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, 2008
    Participatory monitoring is one established and accepted way for the public to make informed decisions. Through the collection of data that is credible to multiple parties, participatory monitoring can become an essential instrument for generating trust.
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    Water and conflict: making water delivery conflict-sensitive in Uganda

    Saferworld, 2008
    Water projects have, arguably, the greatest potential to create conflict in development programmes. Not only is water central to health, sanitation and agrarian livelihoods but it can contribute to other conflict dynamics such as land or grazing rights.
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    Monitoring environment and security

    Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2008
    This briefing paper looks at monitoring environment and integrating security concepts. It uses a recent seminar on environment and conflict as background to the content. The paper focuses on the links between security and environment, and also looks at conflict risk assessments and monitoring treaties based on geographic information systems and remote sensing.
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    The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007
    Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.
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    Practical approaches to transboundary water benefit sharing

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2008
    The emergence and maintenance of transboundary water management regimes rests on a complex web of inter-related factors that define incentives for cooperation. This paper considers practical mechanisms towards an operationalisation of benefit sharing in transboundary water by focusing on steps for putting the concept into practice and the lessons learned from existing cooperative efforts.
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    Charcoal in the mist: an overview of environmental security issues and initiatives in the Central Albertine Rift

    Institute for Environmental Security, 2008
    The Central Albertine Rift is a transboundary eco-region important not only in terms of its great biodiversity, but also in terms of politics and security. Violent conflicts in the region related to valuable mineral and natural resources, have (had) a major destabilising effect on states and communities in the wider Great Lakes region.

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