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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"development and security"”.
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The development-security nexus and security sector reform
The thesis investigates the link between development and security - the ‘development-security nexus’- which emerged during the 1990s, facilitated by the formulation of human development and human security. It examines how this development-security nexus has evolved over time and has influenced the …
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Understanding women's claim to land in an Eastern Cape Village
The history of land dispossession in South Africa affected communities in the former homelands in multiple ways. The laws used to implement policies of segregation and dispossession undermined the rights to land held by black South Africans living in the countryside. Women living in these …
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Accountable to beneficiaries? : the modern development enterprise & its contractors at war : lessons on accountability from Afghanistan to inform the contracting reform agenda
… thesis will review the most relevant existing and proposed accountability mechanisms for private development and security contractors coming out of the human rights, public administration and anti-corruption fields. These three fields were selected because first, they directly shape the policy …
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The Security & Development Nexus
<p>In the 21st century the need for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction efforts have increased since a number of conflicts in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe necessitated the building of newly-democratized states while aiming to achieve security and promoting development. The difficulties …
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The effectiveness of approach : addressing the value of rights-based interventions to protect human rights defenders in oppressive environments
… describes the genesis of the work presented, and brings coherence and context to the submission. The nine outputs in the submission (Outputs A – I) address the nature of approaches to interventions for the protection of human rights defenders. My premise holds that mobilising human …
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Regional supremacy or coalition? evaluating South Africa’s regional integration efforts within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
… inaugurated as a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), where its membership came with a lot of positive and negative reactions in regard to the role it was to play in southern Africa. This was while other SADC states viewed South Africa (because of its robust economy) as a …
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Accountability as an Instrument of Power: The Louisiana Broadband Technology Opportunities Program Grant and the Spaces of Public Affairs
The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program is a grant and loan program funded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The objective of the program is to promote access and use of high speed Internet in communities that have been and continue to be underserved or unserved by …
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Interessen und Ideen in der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik
… die Skepsis gegenüber diesem Befund eines Wandels deutscher Entwicklungspolitik weg von moralischen Begründungszusammenhängen und hin zu nationaler Interessenpolitik seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre. Diese Skepsis begründet sich in der Annahme, dass die bisherige Kritik gegenüber einer möglichen …