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  Reshaping the future: education and post conflict reconstruction

  World Bank, 2005

  This study discusses the issues and challenges around education, poverty and conflict; and the impact of conflict on education. It presents the case that there are significant opportunities for education sector reform in post conflict reconstruction situations, and that education has a key role in both preventing conflict and rebuilding fractured post conflict societies.
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  Understanding environment, conflict, and cooperation

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004

  This report seeks to guide researchers and policymakers in their understanding of the complex set of connections that tie environment, conflict and cooperation.Chapters from this report emerged from the workshop’s discussions of analysis, institutional responses, integrated assessment and early warning systems.
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  Classification of natural resources for armed civil conflict research

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper focuses on recent research that identifies natural resource abundance as a factor that significantly increases the risk of conflict.
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  Debating secession and the recognition of new states in Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2004

  Despite the promises of peace and prosperity that came with the Cold War’s end, many African states remain unable to meet the most basic development needs of their respective citizenries.
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  Resisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa

  CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004

  This study focuses on the legislative frameworks and country practices relating to freedom of association, expression and assembly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The study focuses on the grave and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, as part of an advocacy intervention under the Civil Society Watch Programme.
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  Eastern Sudan indigenous conflict prevention, management and resolution mechanisms

  Institute for Security Studies, 2004

  Violent conflicts can signify not only moments in the continuing process of socio-economic and political change, but also the loosening of cultural traditions, values, customs and norms that for so long have maintained the coherence and stability of local communities.
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  Afghanistan: World Bank approach paper

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper presents the World Bank approach to reconstruction in Afghanistan. It also includes background information on the situation in Afghanistan, including a review of the economy and international assistance.
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  An empirical profile of weak states in sub-Saharan Africa

  Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2003

  In the literature on governance, many African states have been described as "weak".
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  Jammu and Kashmir dispute: examining various proposals for its resolution

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2002

  India and Pakistan have fought four open wars, all stemming from the central issue over the control of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Given the fact that the security paradigm has been completely changed with the unveiling of nuclear arsenals on both sides of the border, this five-decade long conflict has disastrous possibilities if ignored.
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  South Asia: counter-terrorism policies and postures after 9/11

  Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2004

  India has been engaged in counter-terrorism efforts since the 1980s, having diverted massive amounts of financial and military resources towards addressing low-intensity conflicts that characterise terrorist activities. There has, however, been no coordinated policy-level effort to address the issue of counter-terrorism, and most of India’s reactions to events has been ad-hoc.

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