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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
A comprehensive and sustainable peace is not possible in post-conflict situations unless women's security and participation is a primary objective for peacekeepers, senior United Nations officials told the Security Council today....
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Oct 29, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
The Security Council voted today to renew for another year a ban on diamonds and an arms embargo against Côte d'Ivoire, as well as targeted sanctions restricting the travel of individuals....
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Oct 29, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
The United Nations peacekeeping mission established at the end of the north-south civil war in Sudan today condemned the kidnapping and murder of four Chinese oil workers in the country's centre and called for the immediate release of all other hostages....
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Oct 29, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses because of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, today announced that it will make $889 million available to 16 successful claimants....
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Oct 29, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today voiced its concern over the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where many more people have been displaced following a recent upsurge in fighting between Government and rebel forces....
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Oct 28, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
A lack of mutual trust between the signatories remains the main challenge to implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the long-running north-south civil war in Sudan, says a new United Nations report released today....
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Oct 28, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today voiced its concern over the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where many more people have been displaced following a recent upsurge in fighting between Government and rebel forces....
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Oct 28, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Peace and Security
The world has recognized the strides towards peace Nepalis have made, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report made public today, commending the parties in the Asian country for their commitment to consolidating democracy....
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Oct 28, 2008
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The United Nations and African Union are making good progress in the deployment of their joint peacekeeping force in Darfur but the war-wracked region of western Sudan remains beset by deadly fighting, the displacement of civilians, banditry and human rights abuses, the head of UN peacekeeping told the Security Council today....
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Oct 28, 2008
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Goldsmith, B. E., Chalup, S. K., Quinlan, M. J., Journal of Peace Research recent issues
The authors take a new look at the relationship between regime type and deadly militarized conflict among pairs of states (dyads) in the international system. With the goal of describing the general functional form, they evaluate three perspectives: democratic peace, regime similarity and regime rationality. They employ both standard logistic regression...
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