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  The location of natural resources database

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  This paper examines how natural resources can be disaggregated by type and geographic location, and how such data can be manipulated using geographic information systems to create a database.The author discusses the perceived link between global natural resources distribution and armed conflict.
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  Building a new Iraq: women’s role in reconstruction women’s role in strengthening civil society

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003

  This paper summarises the conclusions of a forum on women’s roles in post-conflict Iraq, particularly focusing on women’s roles in civil society, government, economic growth, and security. The authors state that a number of factors will be essential to maximising women’s rights and roles in post-conflict Iraq.
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  Providing security for people: security sector reform in Africa

  SSRonline, 2003

  This document is a collection of articles about Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Africa. They emphasise the importance of viewing SSR programmes in a multi-disciplinary way, and as a practice that involves the sequencing of many programme areas.The paper argues that SSR sequencing strategies can be better guided by macro-level strategic policy, which also helps develop more local integration.
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  Dis-placing race: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and interpretations of violence

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2004

  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa was one of the first initiatives developed to begin the process of cultural and societal healing following the end of the Apartheid era. Yet apartheid, and specifically questions of race and racism, are strikingly absent from the interrogational framework of the TRC, in both its processes and products.
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  From low intensity war to mafia war: taxi violence in South Africa (1987 - 2000)

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2001

  This report presents the results of a case study of South Africa's "taxi wars", a series of violent conflicts that have marked the largely black-owned and black-operated minibus taxi industry since its deregulation in 1987. Prior to 1994, these taxi wars were relatively few in number and were predominantly linked to state-orchestrated violence.
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  Strengthening governance: the role of women in Rwanda's transition

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003

  This paper examines the role and inclusion of women into the transition and post-transition Rwandan governments, following the genocide of the early 1990s.
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  Ethnicity, discrimination and the tragedy of the commons: empirical evidence from a sample of African countries

  Metafro Infosys, 2003

  This paper argues that ethnic diversity does not hinder economic growth.The author argues against other work on ethnicity and growth that conclude ethnic diversity promotes violence and adversely affects public policy choices.
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  Can rule of law lead to peace in Palestine?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001, there is renewed focus on issues of law and good governance in the Middle East. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is being accused of governing through patronage and violence and ignoring the rule of law.
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  Grappling for peace: border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2004

  The protracted conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea over the disputed village of Badme has considerably changed the geopolitical framework of the Horn of Africa in the last few years. The conflict has polarised the precarious political balance all over the Horn, both at the level of the state and of the armed opposition groups.
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  No security without development? No development without security: comments on current trends in EU foreign policy

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  According to the new catch-phrase, there can be no peace without development and conversely, no development without peace.

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