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    Protect the children! A guide to support those working and living with children affected by violence

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    Save the Children developed this book as part of a package of learning materials for child rights workers about relevant measures to protect children against violence. The book discusses the different forms of  violence and how to identify these, and gives practical advice on how to act to promote the protection of children. Areas covered include:
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    Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009
    What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? And what do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich areas? This synthesis paper takes stock of what social science research has to say about these questions. The author reviews the academic literature on resource wealth and conflict.
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    Power-sharing and conflict in Nigeria: power-sharing agreements, negotiations and peace processes

    International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2007
    The aim of this report is to assess the nature and impact of the power-sharing system that have emerged in Nigeria over the past 50 years.
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    Review of development cooperation in Timor Leste : final report - annexes

    Scanteam, 2007
    This document provides annexes to the review of development cooperation in Timor-Leste. The review assesses the impact of Norwegian and international development assistance on conflict transformation in Timor-Leste during the period from Independence in 2002 until the crisis in April 2006, and gives recommendations for improving present and future international cooperation.
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    Rwanda project report: phase 1: implementation

    Norwegian People's Aid, 2008
    This document lays out the implementation phase of a project for Norwegian People's Aid Mine Action (NPA MA) Sudan to support Rwandan National Demining Office (NDO) with mechanical demining operations in Rwanda. It outlines actions taken on specific dates and progress to date. The main goal of the project is to help the Rwandan NDO to become mine free within the 1st of December 2010. 
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    Is it the fault of NGOs alone?: aid and dependency in eastern Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    Does humanitarian assistance end up creating dependence, not development? Scholars of development studies have long debated the efficacy of humanitarian assistance in the Sudan, especially in eastern Sudan, where humanitarian agencies have been working for more than two decades.
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    Institutional conflicts as results of institutional design: can they be avoided?

    Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2008
    Many collective action problems facing human kind are found in the management of common pool resources. This paper presented at the IASC Conference 2008 looks at institutional design from a theoretical point of view while illustrating with empirical examples from two case studies in the central region of Malawi.
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    Post-war development and the land question in South Sudan

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008
    The Land Question (LQ) was one of the core issues behind the protracted war between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/Army in the southern regions of the country. This paper looks at the LQ and some aspects of the policy and institutional challenges with reference to emerging land issues in South Sudan.
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    NPA humanitarian mine action 2007–2008

    Norwegian People's Aid, 2008
    Humanitarian mine action refers to activities undertaken to reduce the effect caused by land-mines and other explosive remnants of war in terms of social, economic and environmental impact of mines. The objective is the reduction of risk to a level where people can live safely and where economic, social, and health development can occur without hindrance from land-mines.
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    The geography of armed civil conflict

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2005
    This document seeks to examine the origins and dynamics of civil war by exploring the many possible functions of geography. Overall the paper tries to widen the understanding of geographic aspects of armed conflict, where issues of location relative to the state center, neighbor countries, and other conflicts, as well as the scope of the conflict zone have been of particular interest.

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