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    Citizenship narratives in the absence of good governance: voices of the working poor in Bangladesh

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    The complex nature of the challenge posed by state–society relations to the realisation of citizenship rights in the poorer countries of the world reflects the incapacity or unwillingness on the part of the state to guarantee basic security of life and livelihoods to its citizens and its proneness to capture by powerful elites that perpetuate this state of affairs.
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    Forgiveness: unveiling an asset for peacebuilding

    Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2015
    Within the international community – international lawyers, human rights activists, officials of international organizations, and the staff of NGOs focused on peace-building – forgiveness is little understood, widely ignored, and often overshadowed by other activities thought to be more urgent.
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    The peacebuilding role of civil society in Southern Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2005
    Civil society has contributed extensively to the reintroduction of plural political dispensations and constitutional reforms in the post-Cold War era.
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    Meeting of the family of citizen - led assessments I n Kampala, Uganda

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Citizen-led assessments emerged from the global South and are carried out by citizen groups. At present the network is a loose and voluntary affiliation of member organizations that has grown in an organic, “bottom up” way rather than a formal institutional arrangement.  Thuis paper gives an over view of a meeting of network members in Kampala, Uganda, February 25-27 2014.
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    Maintaining momentum? Civil society and the APRM in Zambia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is intended to assist member states to identify and eradicate governance problems. The review of Zambia found positives as well as negatives in the country’s governance practices. Without the participation of civil society and on a very modest budget the APRM is, however, struggling to bring about positive change.
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    Measuring party institutionalisation in developing countries: A new research instrument applied to 28 African political parties

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2008
    The institutionalisation of political parties is recognised as an important factor for democratic development, but its measurement remains a neglected area of research. This paper seeks to address this gap by developing an instrument that measures party institutionalisation empirically.