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Violent conflict and breastfeeding: the case of Iraq
... Maternal health presents another channel from violent conflict to breastfeeding, as mothers who are unwell are less likely to breastfeed. We do not have sufficient information on maternal health to test ...
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Impact of violent conflict on secondary school students’ wastage in mount Elgon district, Kenya
... Figure 3: Trends in Grade Dropout Rates by Gender It can also be deduced from Figure 3 that grade dropout rates for both boys and girls increased steadily for the entire three year period between 2006 and 2008. However, ...
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The mental health of populations directly and indirectly exposed to violent conflict in Indonesia
... the violent conflict in Mollucas ...the conflict. Non-IDPs were still exposed to the conflict by news delivered to them by television and radio stations, newspapers, relatives living in Ambon ...
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A Regional Study of the Relationship Between Rainfall and Violent Conflict in Ethiopia
... This study will study precipitation in terms of anomalies averaged over the three- month growing season. I suspect that precipication anomalies during the growing season may affect the likelihood of conflict. ...
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Raiding pastoral livelihoods: motives and effects of violent conflict in north-western Kenya
... because conflict is a major obstacle to investment as observed in this ...of conflict mitigation which offers incentives for both conflict parties to simultaneously leave the violent ...
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The state of trust: Governmental capacity, political trust and (non-)violent conflict in sub-Saharan Africa
... of violent conflict (Hutchison & Johnson, 2011, ...to conflict, these authors argue that an individual’s decision to engage in violent conflict follows from a rational analysis of ...
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Democracy and Violent Conflict: A Reflection on the Crisis in Nigeria
... For instance, the domination of access to state structure and resources by the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) under former President Goodluck Jonathan was seen as exclusionary by the North and this exacerbated social ...
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The fault lines of violent conflict in Tajikistan
... This chapter has illustrated the high level of complexity that must be navigated when attempting to put in context the pre-conflict dynamics of Tajikistan, particularly the Vakhsh Valley and the Qurghonteppa ...
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Democratisation and the prevention of violent conflict in south eastern Europe: The cases of Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia
... As pointed out in Chapter One, the provision for those human rights that fall under the categories of civil and political rights must be recognised as an integral part of a democratic system, for without them democracy ...
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Challenges of controlling sleeping sickness in areas of violent conflict: experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo
... Solutions for providing HAT care in conflict settings thus require sustained international support from field- programme implementers and donors [11]. In this respect, a current looming obstacle is the planned ...
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The escalation and decline of violent conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, 1998-2007
... Soeharto violence, van Klinken studies each site of conflict in terms of one of five processes: the formation of a bounded identity in a group West Kalimantan, the escalation of a confli[r] ...
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Intergroup struggles over victimhood in violent conflict: The victim-perpetrator paradigm
... intergroup conflict construct themselves and their narratives in accordance with the characteristics of the ideal victim, labelling opposing groups as perpetrators and subsequently denying that their own actions ...
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To Do or Not to Do: the Role of Agendas for Action in Analyzing News Coverage of Violent Conflict
... resources to classify relevant statements in the news. Our focus on agendas bridges a gap in the study of news content and discourse, which often postulates the action coordinating and directing role of new narratives, ...
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The Place of Language Use in Conflict: A Symbiosis of Relatedness in the Evolution of Violent Conflict in Northern Nigeria
... and conflict generation in the northern part of Nigeria has become a source of worry as the media, journalists and even scholars often blame religion, politics or ethnicity as the major source of conflict ...
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Essays on violent conflict in developing countries: causes and consequences
... in violent activity in African countries that are likely to have diamonds, and if so through which ...increase conflict activity through changing the wage rate and thereby the opportunity cost of ...
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Comment on Benjamin Smith (2004): “Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World, 1960 1999”
... Bellin, Eva. (1994). “The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective .” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Brunschweiller, Christa N. and ...
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Mortgaging tomorrow’s Security through Today’s Graveyard Peace: A Critical Discourse of the Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
... critical conflict actors. The youth, therefore, resorted to crime and violent activities, hampering sustainable peace and development (Nwobueze, ...marginalized violent conflict metamorphosed ...
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Urban development and the urban planning responses to social diversity and potential conflict in Indonesia
... and Conflict in Indonesia | 53 explain the reasoning behind conflicts using a quantitative methods, but it cannot sufficiently explain why conflicts do not always occur in some other ...the conflict tends ...
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The alternatives to violence project in Namibia : an investigation of the effects of the basic workshops on the participants
... In an exercise, for example, which is mainly aimed to experience affirmation, one person is asked to talk three minutes about what he/she likes about him-/herself while another person is listening. Afterwards the partner ...
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing News Storylines
... Coffee Break To Do or Not to Do: the Role of Agendas for Action in Analyzing News Coverage of Violent Conflict Katsiaryna Stalpouskaya and Christian Baden MediaMeter: A Global Monitor fo[r] ...
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