Search Results - "Sri Lanka"

Settlers in contested lands : territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes -- Settlement, sovereignty, and social engineering : fascist settlement policy between nation and empire / Roberta Pergher -- The Indonesian settlement project in East Timor / Ehud Eiran -- Settlers and state-building : the Kirkuk case / Denise Natali -- Settlers, immigrants, colonists : the three layers of settler-induced conflict in Sri Lanka / Evangelos Liaras -- Settlers, mobilization and displacement in Cyprus : antinomies of ethnic conflict and immigration politics / Neophytos Loizides -- Conclusion : the political dynamics of settlement projects : the central state-settler-native triangle / Ian S. …”
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Data against natural disasters establishing effective systems for relief, recovery, and reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Using data against disasters : overview and synthesis of lessons learned / Samia Amin, Marcus Cox, and Markus Goldstein -- Information gaps in relief, recovery, and reconstruction in the aftermath of natural disasters / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- United Nations' efforts to strengthen information management for disaster preparedness and response / Brendan McDonald and Patrick Gordon -- The use of a logistics support system in Guatemala and Haiti / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- World Bank : tracking reconstruction funds in Indonesia after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami / Jack McKeon -- The flow of information during disaster response : the case of the Mozambique floods, 2007 / Marcin Sasin -- Data management systems after the earthquake in Pakistan : the lessons of Risepak / Samia Amin -- Ex ante preparedness for disaster management : Sahana in Sri Lanka / M.A.L.R. Perera.…”
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Asymmetric autonomy and the settlement of ethnic conflicts

Table of Contents: “…Cases of asymmetrical territorial autonomy / Stefan Wolff -- The Russian constitutional system : complexity and asymmetry / Bill Bowring -- Partial asymmetry and federal construction : accommodating diversity in the Canadian constitution / Raffaele Iacovino -- Elusive autonomy in sub-Saharan Africa / Coel Kirkby and Christina Murray -- Asymmetry in the face of heavily disproportionate power relations : Hong Kong / Johannes Chan -- Asymmetric autonomy in the United Kingdom / John McGarry -- Thinking about asymmetry and symmetry in the remaking of Iraq / Brendan O'Leary -- The case for asymmetric federalism in Georgia : a missed opportunity / Jonathan Wheatley -- Gagauz autonomy in Moldova : the real and the virtual in post-Soviet state design / Oleh Protsyk -- Asymmetric autonomy and power sharing for Sri Lanka : a political solution to ethnic conflict? …”
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Asymmetric autonomy and the settlement of ethnic conflicts

Table of Contents: “…Cases of asymmetrical territorial autonomy / Stefan Wolff -- The Russian constitutional system : complexity and asymmetry / Bill Bowring -- Partial asymmetry and federal construction : accommodating diversity in the Canadian constitution / Raffaele Iacovino -- Elusive autonomy in sub-Saharan Africa / Coel Kirkby and Christina Murray -- Asymmetry in the face of heavily disproportionate power relations : Hong Kong / Johannes Chan -- Asymmetric autonomy in the United Kingdom / John McGarry -- Thinking about asymmetry and symmetry in the remaking of Iraq / Brendan O'Leary -- The case for asymmetric federalism in Georgia : a missed opportunity / Jonathan Wheatley -- Gagauz autonomy in Moldova : the real and the virtual in post-Soviet state design / Oleh Protsyk -- Asymmetric autonomy and power sharing for Sri Lanka : a political solution to ethnic conflict? …”
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Theorizing the local music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton -- Spaces and itineraries. …”
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Data against natural disasters establishing effective systems for relief, recovery, and reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Using data against disasters : overview and synthesis of lessons learned / Samia Amin, Marcus Cox, and Markus Goldstein -- Information gaps in relief, recovery, and reconstruction in the aftermath of natural disasters / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- United Nations' efforts to strengthen information management for disaster preparedness and response / Brendan McDonald and Patrick Gordon -- The use of a logistics support system in Guatemala and Haiti / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- World Bank : tracking reconstruction funds in Indonesia after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami / Jack McKeon -- The flow of information during disaster response : the case of the Mozambique floods, 2007 / Marcin Sasin -- Data management systems after the earthquake in Pakistan : the lessons of Risepak / Samia Amin -- Ex ante preparedness for disaster management : Sahana in Sri Lanka / M.A.L.R. Perera.…”
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Theorizing the local music, practice, and experience in South Asia and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed ; Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman ; Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton -- Spaces and itineraries. …”
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Women's economic empowerment : insights from Africa and South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra -- Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama -- The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham.…”

Women's economic empowerment : insights from Africa and South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra -- Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama -- The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham.…”

Tracking gender equity under economic reforms continuity and change in South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Non-conventional indicators of gender disparities under structural reforms / Shobna Sonpar and Ravi Kapur -- Household response to gender issues : a survey on households of female EPZ workers in Bangladesh / Salma Chaudhuri Zohir -- Status of women under economic reforms : the Indian case / Swapna Mukhopadhyay -- Economic reform and the status of women in Nepal / APROSC -- Gender and adjustment policies : evidence from Pakistan / Rehana Siddiqui, Shahnaz Hamid, Rizwana Siddiqui, and Naeem Akhtar -- Continuity and change : women workers in garment and textile industries in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera -- Family structure, women's education and work : re-examining the high status of women in Kerala / Mridul Eapen and Praveena Kodoth -- Trade, gender, and employment issues / Manju Senapaty -- Gender in a macroeconomic framework : a CGE model analysis / Anushree Sinha and Sangeeta N. -- Towards integration? …”
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Tracking gender equity under economic reforms continuity and change in South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Non-conventional indicators of gender disparities under structural reforms / Shobna Sonpar and Ravi Kapur -- Household response to gender issues : a survey on households of female EPZ workers in Bangladesh / Salma Chaudhuri Zohir -- Status of women under economic reforms : the Indian case / Swapna Mukhopadhyay -- Economic reform and the status of women in Nepal / APROSC -- Gender and adjustment policies : evidence from Pakistan / Rehana Siddiqui, Shahnaz Hamid, Rizwana Siddiqui, and Naeem Akhtar -- Continuity and change : women workers in garment and textile industries in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera -- Family structure, women's education and work : re-examining the high status of women in Kerala / Mridul Eapen and Praveena Kodoth -- Trade, gender, and employment issues / Manju Senapaty -- Gender in a macroeconomic framework : a CGE model analysis / Anushree Sinha and Sangeeta N. -- Towards integration? …”
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Global unions challenging transnational capital through cross-border campaigns /

Table of Contents: “…Beating global capital : a framework and method for union strategic corporate research and campaigns / Tom Juravich -- "Due diligence" at APM-Maersk : from Malaysian industrial dispute to Danish cross-border labor campaign / Peter Wad -- Indian labor legislation and cross-border solidarity in historical context / Ashwini Sukthankar and Kevin Kolben -- Struggle, perseverance, and organization in Sri Lanka's export processing zones / Samanthi Gunawardana -- Organizing in the banana sector / Henry Frundt -- Dockers versus the directives : battling port policy on the European waterfront / Peter Turnbull -- Going national or European? …”
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Global unions challenging transnational capital through cross-border campaigns /

Table of Contents: “…Beating global capital : a framework and method for union strategic corporate research and campaigns / Tom Juravich -- "Due diligence" at APM-Maersk : from Malaysian industrial dispute to Danish cross-border labor campaign / Peter Wad -- Indian labor legislation and cross-border solidarity in historical context / Ashwini Sukthankar and Kevin Kolben -- Struggle, perseverance, and organization in Sri Lanka's export processing zones / Samanthi Gunawardana -- Organizing in the banana sector / Henry Frundt -- Dockers versus the directives : battling port policy on the European waterfront / Peter Turnbull -- Going national or European? …”
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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Cuevas -- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. …”
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Influencing change building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance /

Table of Contents: “…Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? …”
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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Cuevas -- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. …”
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Influencing change building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance /

Table of Contents: “…Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? …”
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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

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Genocide : New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences /

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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

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