South and South East Asia

Snapshot Series: Security and Justice from a District Perspective, Morang

Morang
International Alert
Initiative for Peacebuilding
May, 2009
International Alert, Initiative for Peacebuilding
10 pages
London, UK
8-955-8085-03-5

The ‘Snapshot’ briefings are part of a longer-term initiative by International Alert to help address the current gaps in knowledge and understanding between those actors at the district level and those in Kathmandu. Each briefing aims to outline current security and justice needs and challenges in a particular district, and advance constructive recommendations for ways in which national and international actors could address these challenges. The briefings are based on research undertaken as part of Alert’s work for the Initiative for Peacebulding project.

This snapshot briefing outlines current security and justice needs in Morang - an industrial hub in eastern Terai region - giving constructive recommendations for ways in which national and international actors could address these challenges.

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Snapshot Series: Security and Justice from a District Perspective, Kailali

Kailali
International Alert, IfP
May, 2009
International Alert, IfP
12 pages
London, UK
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The ‘Snapshot’ briefings are part of a longer-term initiative by International Alert to help address the current gaps in knowledge and understanding between those actors at the district level and those in Kathmandu. Each briefing aims to outline current security and justice needs and challenges in a particular district, and advance constructive recommendations for ways in which national and international actors could address these challenges. The briefings are based on research undertaken as part of Alert’s work for the Initiative for Peacebulding project.

This snapshot briefing outlines current security and justice needs in Kailali, a rural Terai district, giving constructive recommendations for ways in which national and international actors could address these challenges.

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Inclusive Peace in Muslim Mindanao

Revisiting the dynamics of conflict and exclusion
Francisco J. Lara Jr.
Phil Champain
July, 2009
International Alert
32 pages
London, UK
978-1-906677-43-5

This paper argues that at the core of the problem of persistent violence in Mindanao is the exclusionary political economy that is developed and sustained through a complex system of contest and violence. “Rebellion-related” violence relating to the vertical armed challenges against the infrastructure of the state combines with “inter- or intra-clan and group violence” relating to horizontal armed challenges between and among families, clans, and tribes.

This paper argues that at the core of the problem of persistent violence in Mindanao is the exclusionary political economy that is developed and sustained through a complex system of contest and violence.

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