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    Regulating the commons in Mauritania: local agreements as a tool for sustainable natural resource management

    International Association for the Study of Common Property, 2006
    Natural resource management is Mauritania is a complex pluri-legal affair, with tribal law, colonial French law and modern state law coexisting and often contradicting. One approach of dealing with these codes, and at the same time, the various stakeholders, is to establish local agreements (LAs).
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    Implementing refugee ‘rights’ in Egypt

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    In the world of refugee policy, traditional ‘needs-based’ approaches are being replaced by ‘rights based’ approaches founded on the recognition that refugees can shape their own lives. In Egypt, this shift has been widely accepted. But there are many challenges to its practical implementation.
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    Turning around fragile states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Donor interest in fragile states has increased recently, partly due to the belief that extreme poverty, economic decline and violent conflict are linked to the rise in global terrorism. But donors need to understand better the factors that affect development in these countries if aid is to be more effective.
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    Business and human rights: the role of business in weak governance: business proposals for effective ways of addressing dilemma situations in weak governance zones

    Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2006
    This main objective of this paper is to identify effective ways for companies to deal with dilemma situations encountered in weak governance zones. The first part of the paper presents the range of issues associated with weak governance zones and the reality faced by companies that operate or are contemplating operating in them.
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    Reducing urban violence in developing countries

    Brookings Institution, 2006
    This brief presents an integrated framework for understanding urban violence. It is informed by the findings from participatory urban appraisals of violence undertaken in 18 poor urban communities in Colombia and Guatemala.The paper argues that evidence from Latin America challenges the popular stereotype that poverty is the main cause of violence.
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    Bangladesh today

    International Crisis Group, 2006
    Bangladesh faces twin threats to its democracy and stability: the risk that its political system will founder in a deadlock over elections and the growing challenge of militant Islamism, which has brought a spate of violence. This report gives an overall view of the world's third most populous Muslim country and assesses the implications for instability.
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    Protecting persons affected by natural disasters: IASC operational guidelines on human rights and natural disasters

    Brookings Institution, 2006
    How do you protect Human Rights in times of natural disaster and emergency? This report offers guidelines from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) on humanitarian action in emergencies, including situations of natural disaster. There are also standards on protecting human rights in situations of armed conflict, internal displacement and refugee situations.
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    Civil society in conflict transformation: ambivalence, potentials and challenges

    Berghof Conflict Research, 2006
    What is the potential for civil society actors to contribute to peace building and conflict transformation?To explore this issue, this article discusses various terms and definitions linked to debates about civil society and gives a general overview of NGO activities at the international and regional level.
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    The Comprehensive Peace Agreement: a summary booklet

    PACT Sudan, 2006
    This report summarises the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in relation to southern Sudan.
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    Human rights and freedom of expression events: learning from experience

    Pact Cambodia, 2006
    This publication documents the events of late 2005 and early 2006 relating to freedom of expression and human rights in Cambodia. This period was marked as one of civil unrest and detention.

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