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The impact of transition and the Afghanistan crisis on employment and decent work concerns in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Pickup, Francine - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
neighbouring Afghanistan. Highlights the impact of radical Islamic groups, drug production and trade, migration and refugee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966961
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Fighting Drugs and Building Peace: Towards Policy Coherence between Counter-Narcotics and Peace Building
Rubin, Barnett R. - eSocialSciences - 2008
done for cocaine and heroin or were there unique features and challenges to drug-related conflicts? How could one build … sustainable peace in areas where governance is undermined by drug mafias? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699077
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Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in food aid is exploited which is caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493964
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The transnationalization of the Taliban
Harpviken, Kristian Berg - In: International Area Studies Review 15 (2012) 3, pp. 203-229
This article introduces a framework for the analysis of transnationalization – understood as the process by which non-state groups integrate with transnational actors – that distinguishes between (1) organization, (2) resource mobilization, (3) tactical repertoire and (4) ideological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010587867
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Birth Registration and Armed Conflict
*UNICEF - 2007
The research theme was identified within the framework of the European Network for the Research Agenda on Children in Armed Conflict and has been developed by UNICEF IRC with the co-operation of a number of Network partners and UNICEF offices in the field. It reviews the problem of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018048
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Women at war: Understanding how women veterans cope with combat and military sexual trauma
Mattocks, Kristin M.; Haskell, Sally G.; Krebs, Erin E.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 4, pp. 537-545
The wars in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF) have engendered a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010582468
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How Afghanistan was broken: The disaster of the Soviet intervention
Baev, Pavel K - In: International Area Studies Review 15 (2012) 3, pp. 249-262
-burdened by the peripheral war and could have absorbed the defeat, but the consequences of the Mujahedin victory for Afghanistan …The self-propelling dynamics of violence in Afghanistan, which appears set to outlast the as yet on-going peace … Afghanistan, about which the Soviet leadership knew much but understood little. The Soviet Army showed the capacity for learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010587866
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Conflict and Development—Lessons from South Asia
Ghani, Ejaz; Iyer, Lakshmi - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 31, pp. 1-8
South Asia is the second most violent place on earth after Iraq. Conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan have attracted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837656
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Privatizing war and security in Afghanistan: Future or dead end?
Giustozzi, Antonio - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (2007) 1, pp. 30-34
An assessment of the employment of mercenaries in Afghanistan gives mixed results. U.S. armed forces appear to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941245
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Eine erste Schätzung der wirtschaftlichen Kosten der deutschen Beteiligung am Krieg in Afghanistan
Brück, Tilman; Groot, Olaf J. de; Schneider, Friedrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 21, pp. 2-11
am Krieg in Afghanistan berücksichtigt. In einem realistischen Szenario, in dem Deutschland noch einige Jahre in … Afghanistan präsent bleibt, schätzen wir die Gesamtkosten der deutschen Beteiligung am Krieg in Afghanistan auf 26 bis 47 …In diesem Beitrag werden die bisherigen sowie die zukünftigen Gesamtkosten der Beteiligung Deutschlands am Krieg in …
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