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  Meeting Notes 07-14-2001by Francis Kornegay and Simon Chesterman, rapporteurs

  Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Architecture: Problems and Prospects

  A report based on IPA/Africa Renaissance Institute/Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies/Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand Seminar on Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Architecture: Problems and Prospects, in Gaborone, Botswana between December 11 and 13, 2000.

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  Meeting Notes 07-13-2001by Kelvin Ong

  2001 Vienna Seminar: Promoting Institutional Responses to the Challenges in the Caucasus and Improving Co-operation Between the OSCE, UN, EU and the CIS

  Drawing on case studies of the most relevant peace and security issues in the Caucasus, the occasion enabled participants to scrutinize the international and regional security organizations interaction and to draw lessons learned for the future; the experience of the UN and the OSCE in managing the challenges of the Caucasus; and the institutional approaches […]

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  Books 06-15-2001by Bruce D. Jones

  Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of Failure

  The 1990s has seen an explosion of attention to the phenomenon of civil wars. A proliferation of actors has added complexity to conflict resolution processes. Recent theoretical research has highlighted the importance of inter-connections between parallel or overlapping conflict resolution activities. With this context in view, this book explores the connections between different regional and […]

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  Books 06-15-2001by Simon Chesterman, editor

  Civilians in War

  A project of the International Peace Academy, 2001. In World War I, only 5% of all casualties were civilian; in World War II that number was 50%; and in conflicts in the 1990s, civilians accounted for up to 90% of those killed. Clearly, the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilians, while recognizing the […]

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