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    Intensifying the anti-mining campaign

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016
    Civil society monitoring and advocacy that is vertically integrated across different levels of action is one strategy for seeking government accountability. This case study summary is one of a set of seven from the Philippines. Each discusses a civil society campaign in a different sector, and draws out lessons for vertical integration.
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    Securing Nairobi's poor neighbourhoods policy considerations for enhancing community participation

    Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, 2017
    Kenya has grappled with extensive crime and insecurity, ranging from armed robberies, carjacking and street crime, to politically-motivated, ethnically-organised violence, resource conflicts and terror attacks that affect both rural and urban areas.
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    Mitigating electoral conflict in Kenya’s 2017 General Election

    Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies, 2017
    On 8 August 2017 Kenya is expected to conduct a general election in which new representatives at the county and national levels will be elected.
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    Explaining South African xenophobia

    Afrobarometer, 2017
    After widespread violence in 2008 and 2015, South Africa is now clearly one of most hostile destinations in the world for African migrants.
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    India's Panda the rise and fall of Sabyasachi Panda in India's Maoist movement

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2016
    Sabyasachi Panda is an ordinary man with a curious claim to fame. A mathematics graduate from a middling college in rural India, Panda, with his custom short haircut (combed to the side), generic reading glasses, and stock-standard moustache (almost universal amongst Indian men), speaks softly and almost entirely in well-worn clichés.
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    The East African energy frontier, a decade on

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    The East Africa region has seen some of the decade’ s largest natural gas and energy finds. However, despite their magnitude, these discoveries have yet to fulfil the promise of social and economic progress.
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    Rural banditry and conflicts in Northern Nigeria

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2016
    Ipastoralists and farmers in Nigeria have been on the rise. This social conflict has traditionally consisted of disputes over natural resources and is often presented as a conflict between settlers and nomadic people.
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    Economics, governance and instability in South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2016
    FORTY YEARS AGO a combination of frustration against local government, the enforcement of Afrikaans  language policy, trade-union activism and the politicising impact of the black consciousness movement culminated in the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976.
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    Ethnic diversity, segregation, and ethnocentric trust in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2016
    Ethnic diversity is generally associated with less social capital and lower levels of trust. However, most empirical evidence for this relationship is focused on generalized trust, rather than more theoretically appropriate measures of group-based trust.
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    A stitch in time: preventive diplomacy and the Lake Malawi dispute

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    A low-intensity dispute between Malawi and Tanzania threatens regional peace as the two countries contest the demarcation of their national boundaries at Lake Malawi. This long-standing dispute became more urgent when in 2011 the Malawian government issued licences for oil prospecting beneath the lake’s northern shoreline.

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