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  Afghanistan, Inc: a Corpwatch investigative report

  Corporate Watch, 2006

  This investigative report argues that Afghans are losing their faith in the development experts whose job is to reconstruct and rebuild their country. While the quality of life for most is modestly improved, they were promised much more.
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  The Palestinian war-torn economy: aid, development and state formation

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2006

  This study considers the background to the Palestinian Authority (PA), institution building and reform and development policy. The authors recommend that the PA complement short-term emergency responses with long-term planning and policies that focus on poverty reduction and employment growth.
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  Who guards the guards?: the international criminal court and serious crimes commited by peacekeepers in Africa

  Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2006

  This document traces the rise of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and discuss the different crimes in its jurisdiction.
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  Implementation of the ‘Self Reliance Strategy’ compromises refugee rights in Uganda

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Long-term humanitarian ‘care and maintenance’ programmes have a reputation for ignoring human and social needs. A new strategy designed for Sudanese refugees in Uganda was meant to address these failings by applying a more ‘developmental’ approach. However, political security, refugee participation and respect for human rights have been lacking.
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  Developing local capacity for management of natural resource conflicts in Africa: a review of key issues, approaches, and outcomes

  FRAME, 2005

  This research paper critically evaluates the key issues and approaches in community-based natural resource conflict management. This assessment is done in light of USAID’s recent framework "Nature, Wealth, and Power" (NWP). The purpose of the framework is to provide a clearer understanding of challenges and options regarding natural resource conflicts and attempts to manage or resolve them.
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  Enhancing democratic governance of the security sector: an institutional assessment framework

  Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 2003

  This institutional assessment framework outlined in the documents is designed to assist Governments and their partners to determine how best to strengthen democratic governance of the security sector, as part of a broader national vision.
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  A secure Europe in a better world: European security strategy

  European Union, 2003

  This paper maps out European security strategy.
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  Understanding and supporting security sector reform

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This document provides guidance for DFID governance advisers and country programme managers considering how to support the security sector.Key political and policy choices for donors include:military disengagement from politics – developing political strategies and constitutional dispensations to facilitate the withdrawal of the military from a formal political role and prevent excessiv
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  Safety, security and accessible justice: putting policy into practice

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  The aim of these guidelines is to assist development staff in putting safety, security and accessible justice (SSAJ), policy into practice.As the guidelines highlight there are a number of reasons why safety, security and accessible justice matter to poor people, including:poor people and vulnerable groups suffer disproportionately from crime – eg the impact of theft is more severe if
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  Backgrounder: National Security Policy

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2005

  This brief provides a short introduction to the importance and the challenges of a country’s National Security Policy (NSP), and also addresses how to implement an effective and democratic NSP.The paper highlights that it is important for a country to have an integrated and detailed NSP strategy, in order to:ensure that the government addresses all threats in a comprehensive manneri

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