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    Exploitation of information and communication technology by terrorist organisations

    Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
    The phenomenal growth of computer and communication technologies, or ICT, has brought great benefits attached with some risks. Some of the negative risks which have emerged include the cooption of technology by terrorist organisations for use in their nefarious activities.
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    Understanding Nepal Maoists' demands: revisiting events of 1990

    Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
    The Maoist insurgency which began in February 1996 is the major security challenge facing Nepal, having affected almost all the 75 districts of the country. The Maoists' core demands-an interim government, an elected Constituent Assembly to frame a new Constitution, a republican state-revolve around issues which seemed to have been settled in the 1990 Constitution.
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    Rise of religious parties in Pakistan: causes and prospects

    Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
    In the October 2002 general elections, religious parties and two Provincial Assemblie (those of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan) made inroads into the National Assembly. A conglomeration of six parties, the Muttahida Majilis-e-Amal (MMA) emerged as a new political force and a political alternative to the PPP and PML-Nawaz (PML-N).
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    Law and counterterrorism: the Prevention of Terrorism Act in a strategic dimension

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2004
    To date, India’s policy-level response to terrorism has been ad-hoc at best. The recently passed Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) attempts to address the most critical dilemma facing democracies – how to maintain security while upholding civil liberties.
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    Bangladesh: Extremist Islamist Consolidation

    Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2003
    The 2001 general elections in Bangladesh have revealed the depth and sophistication of organisation of extremist Islamist organisations. Prominent and senior members of fundamentalist organisations are now members of the ruling coalition, signalling the possible beginning of a new era of non-secular government in Bangladesh.
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    Social inclusion: a pre-requisite for equitable and sustainable natural resource management: two experiences in Mali

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003
    This paper calls for the involvement of all stakeholders in managing of common property resources. The authors suggest that degradation of natural resources is primarily due to the conflict of interest between different stakeholder and base their argument on experiences of programme support to decentralised natural resource management in Mali.
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    Poor performers in Sub-Saharan Africa: exclusion or integration?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2004
    Political events since 9/11 have brought renewed focus onto ‘poor performing’ countries, owing to the real or perceived threat that some of these countries are directly responsible for supporting/harbouring/arming terrorist networks.
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    Mediating peace: the role of insider-partials in conflict resolution in Mizoram

    Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2004
    Insurgency in the Northeastern region of India has taken on many different forms since the country’s independence in 1947. Violent and democratic expressions of desires of self-governance and determination have been emanating from a large number of tribal societies in the region.
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    India-Bangladesh: restoring sovereignty on neglected borders

    Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2003
    India’s border with Bangladesh covers a length of 4095 kilometres, abutting the states of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura. Nearly 20 million illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are thought to be living in India, 10 million in West Bengal and Assam alone.
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    Broken vows: exposing the loupe holes in the diamond industry’s efforts to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds

    Global Witness, 2004
    This paper evaluates how well the US diamond industry is complying with self-regulation established to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds, known as the ‘Kimberley Process’.The paper finds compliance with the Kimberley Process among companies surveyed ‘abysmal’:only five of the thirty retailers sent information on their policies on conflict diamonds when requestedthere were low

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