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India. The authors argue that political conflict becomes more severe when social cleavages based on class, caste and …
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Persistence and breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be attractive amidst setbacks and discontinuity. So it remains perennially elusive, despite having undergone democratic upheavals. Some significant variables such as ideology, essence of...
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are suggested for managing the humanleopard conflict situations in areas where leopards coexist among high densities of … humans. URL:[http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/guidelines-human-leopard-conflict-management.pdf]. …
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conflict with the Naxalites. …
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The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even...
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reform, the UN concentrates on conflict resolution and reconstruction, and the World Bank- whose operations span both the … agendas- has yet to integrate reform and conflict issues. However, reform and reconstruction can be kept separate if conflict …
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Contemporary civil wars are rooted in a partial or complete breakdown of the social contract, often involving disputes over public spending, resource revenues, and taxation. A feasible social contract gives potential rebels something akin to a transfer. When this is improbable, and the potential...
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inconsistent. Levels of conflict are an increasing function of greed and rents, but decreasing in the direct costs of war. In a … more conflict is chosen. Sanctions, aid and direct intervention, if effective, could eliminate conflict, as well as help in …
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This paper presents a simple model to show how distributional concerns can engender social conflict. They have a two … period model, where the cost of conflict is endogenous in the sense that parties involved have full control over how much … conflict they can create. We find that anticipated future inequality plays a crucial role in determining the level of conflict …
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In this paper, an attempt is made to identify some key challenges for infrastructure sectors in post-conflict … policies for their impact on three key dimensions of (i) governance and state rebuilding, (ii) conflict prevention and peace … post-conflict contexts are identified. [Research Paper No. 2005/42] …
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