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    Building peace in the new oil frontiers of Northern Kenya

    Impact Initiative, 2018
    Since the discovery of oil five years ago in Northern Kenya, explorations have spread to more than 30 drilling and testing sites. This has brought foreign investment, and in turn, new work opportunities, corporate social investment in schools and health clinics, and options for personal enrichment through contracts and tenders.
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    Compensatory livestock thievery: A new trend in economic crime in Dilling/South Kordofan State (2014–2016)

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    “Compensatory livestock thievery” within the greater Dilling locality in South Kordofan State (SKS) is an economic crime that was born out of a war environment.
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    Drivers of conflict in Tunisia: An annotated bibliography

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Tunisia has witnessed an increase in conflict activity in recent years, both in the form of violent political protest and acts of violence perpetrated by armed jihadist groups. This report identifies some of the key literature on drivers of conflict in Tunisia, looking at both short-term and structural factors. There is a relatively large body of literature on drivers of conflict in Tunisia.
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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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    Reducing conflicts around water points

    Solidarités International, 2017
     SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL works in the region of Kidal, in northern Mali, since 2015 to improve agro-pastoral activities through the implementation of WaSH activities. Underlying the rehabilitation of water points is the aim to reduce conflicts between different types of users: breeders and their herds and local populations for domestic uses.
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    Climate change and state fragility in the Sahel

    Fride, 2015
    Many climate experts agree that the Sahel is a key hotspot for global climate change. Throughout the region, higher temperatures, increasingly variable rainfall, and more frequent droughts and storms will interact with high levels of vulnerability and low adaptive capacities to significantly challenge continued development progress.
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    The rise of environmental crime: a growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security

    United Nations Environment and Development Forum, 2016
    The environment provides the very foundation of sustainable development, our health, food security and our economies. Ecosystems provide clean water supply, clean air and secure food and ultimately both physical and mental wellbeing.

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