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Global Water Security

This report discusses impacts of water security of the U.S. through 2040.

Anti-government Networks in Civil Conflicts: How Network Structures Affect Conflictual Behavior

This paper takes a unique analytical approach to discuss the behavior of anti-government networks in the midst of conflict.

What Peace and Whose? Envisioning a More Comprehensive, More Stable Peace in South Sudan and Sudan

This paper uses International Alert’s peacebuilding framework to explore questions about peace and peacebuilding in South Sudan and Sudan.

Enforcing the Rules

This report examines the monitoring of mining obligations, characterizes the main gaps, identifies policy options and good practices, and proposes practical ways for both government and civil society to improve monitoring and enforcement.

Turning Point: What Future for Forest Peoples and Resources in the Emerging World Order?

This report takes stock of the current status of forest rights and tenure globally, assesses the key issues and events of 2011 that shape possibilities to improve local rights and livelihoods, and identifies key questions and challenges that the world will face in 2012 and beyond.

Responsible Mineral Development Initiative 2011

This report offers a series of realistic, practical building blocks for creating the stable operating environment between companies, governments and other stakeholders – essential to a responsible, sustainable future.
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Best Practices for Sustainable Development in Emerging-Market Cities

This article discusses strategies for sustainability in light of the massive wave of urbanization in emerging markets.

CIDA’s Partnership with Mining Companies Fails to Acknowledge and Address the Role of Mining in the Creation of Development Deficits

Mining Watch Canada discusses CIDA's practice of subsidizing Corporate Social Responsibility projects, and the social effects this practice has on the extractive sector.
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Climate Change as a Conflict Multiplier

This USIP peace brief discusses the link between climate change and conflict and what types of policy are needed.

Conflict Timber: Dimensions of the Problem in Asia and Africa

The primary objective of the analysis was to provide a comprehensive examination of the economic, ecological, political, social and security dimensions of conflict timber in both Asia and Africa

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