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January 23, 2003: Population Growth Leading to Land Hunger
Livelihoods and Security (Winnipeg, Manitoba: International Institute for Sustainable Development and IUCN-The World Conservation Union, 2002). Peter Gizewski and Thomas Homer Dixon, "Environmental Scarcity and Violent Conflict: The Case of Pakistan," Occasional Paper for the Project on Environment, Population and Security (Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science and ...
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Trade, Aid and Security (TAS)
Foreword by Lloyd Axworthy. ...
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Business and Conflict
At its best, increased business investment in fragile states should reduce the risk of violent conflict by stimulating economic growth and raising living standards. However, this has not always been the case ... policy can be used to help forge stability and security, reduce the likelihood of armed conflict and assist economic and political recovery in our war-torn world. Foreword by Lloyd Axworthy. ...
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Pacific Institute: Water and Conflict
Conflict Water resources have rarely, if ever, been the sole source of violent conflict or war. But this fact has led some international security "experts" to ignore the complex and real relationships between ... explore tools and techniques for reaching agreements. The Pacific Institute also continues to update our Water and Conflict chronology, which traces the history of water as a tool of war and ...
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Security, Development and Forest Conflict: a forum for action
Some evidence suggests that community forestry efforts reduce the incidence of violent conflict, although the record is clearly mixed. There have also been some notable successes in maintaining conservation efforts even in areas of extreme conflict. An increasing number of ...
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IELRC.ORG - Environment & Conflict Linkages: an Overview
Environmental factors act as triggers, sustainers & sources of conflict Trigger: Spark off & escalate violent conflict e.g.severe drought, a devastating flood or a volcanic eruption Sustainer: Aggravate, perpetuate conflict, spoil opportunities for peace, undermine ...
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Lifewater International - the global need - water and conflict
Water shortage is generally seen as the environmental problem most likely to lead to violent confl ict.” When studying nations’ internal and external confl ict, water is noteworthy for several ... The presence of accessible safe water is important in preventing conflict and taking care of people in the midst of violent conflict. Lifewater International helps people have access to safe, clean ...
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National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Photographer Ami Vitale's outtakes from "Stomping Grounds," a report from ground zero of the conflict between humans and elephants.
Photographer Ami Vitale India's Elephantine Problem A photo dispatch from ground zero of the escalating conflict between India's elephants and its people. Photographer Ami Vitale is no stranger to covering ... in Assam, where a wild elephant population numbering some 5,000 has been pushed into increasingly violent conflict with a burgeoning number of human inhabitants. As a result, over the course of ...
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Foreign Affairs - Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable? - James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein, Richard Rosecrance, Arthur Stein, and Jerry Z. Muller
If the problem is tribal or national antipathies, there may well be some utility in ... been a basis for political organization and the source of persistent national political crisis and violent conflict since independence. Remarkably, we found no evidence that people care more for the welfare ...
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A violent culture is not the only one conceivable
Within a nation, other nations are commonly referred to as dictatorial, violent, or corrupt. Within every nation, however, the same standard of critical observation is never employed ... noted bias toward Israel in its conflict with its native Palestinians and with Arab neighbors. The U.S. is almost universally seen as supremely violent, starting with atomic bombs used on ...
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