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		<title>Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies. Opportunities for sustainable peacebuilding are lost — and sustainable peace is at risk — when significant stakeholders in a society’s future peace and conflict architecture are excluded from efforts to heal the wounds of war and build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/defying-victimhood-women-and-post-conflict-peacebuilding</link>
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		<title>Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development: Opportunities, Promises and Concerns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. Even though recent discussions on these topics have benefited from the accumulation of empirical and theoretical knowledge over the last few decades, these discussions have not produced the kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/green-economy-and-good-governance-for-sustainable-development-opportunities-promises-and-concerns</link>
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		<title>Business and Climate Policy: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Private Voluntary Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate change has become one of the most important and challenging global policy fields. Attention has primarily focused on the successes and failures of states and intergovernmental organizations but many more actors are involved and contribute to solutions. Business, often seen as spurring climate change, harbours a lot of potential for problem solving. Today, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/business-and-climate-policy-the-potentials-and-pitfalls-of-private-voluntary-programs-2</link>
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		<title>Public Works and Social Protection in Southern Africa: Do Public Works Work for the Poor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public Works Programmes (PWPs) are widely implemented throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa, often with funding from major international donor agencies. They are perceived to present a ‘win-win’ policy option, providing employment to the chronically poor while also creating assets for the state, and in this way offering a welfare transfer which is also a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/public-works-and-social-protection-in-southern-africado-public-works-work-for-the-poor</link>
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		<title>Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township near Johannesburg turned violently on their neighbours, launching a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped and over a hundred thousand displaced. Most of those killed were from beyond South Africa’s borders, but at least a third were citizens who, for reasons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/excorcising-the-demons-within-xenophobia-violence-and-statecraft-in-contemporary-south-africa</link>
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		<title>Gender-Based Explosions: The Nexus between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism and Terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First colonized and now living under political oppression, experiencing peripatetic marginalization, feeling dejected, intimidated and humiliated, many Muslim men (in and outside Muslim countries) have no opportunities to prove themselves as “honourable” and/or practice “masculinity” in culturally-prescribed ways. Troubled and troublesome, many Muslim men use militant jihadist networks as outlets to achieve self-actualization and heroism. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/gender-based-explosions-the-nexus-between-muslim-masculinities-jihadist-islamism-and-terrorism</link>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS and the Security Sector in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout recorded history, communicable diseases have devastated armies and weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security functions. The contemporary “securitization” of HIV/AIDS discourse is reminiscent of the age-old historical links of disease and security. This discourse has compelled many African countries to initiate policies aimed at addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/hiv-aids-and-the-security-sector-in-africa</link>
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		<title>The Hidden Alternative:Co-operative Values, Past, Present and Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proclamation by the United Nations that 2012 would be the International Year of Co-operatives represents a milestone in the history of the international co-operative movement. It reflects the growth and renewal of co-operatives globally during the past decade and a half, whether the focus is on financial co-operatives in Britain or producer co-operatives across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/the-hidden-alternative-co-operative-values-past-present-and-future</link>
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		<title>Satoyama–Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being:  Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes of Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satoyama is a Japanese term which describes mosaic landscapes of different types of ecosystem—secondary forests, farm lands, irrigation ponds and grasslands—along with human settlements managed to produce bundles of ecosystem services for human well-being. The concept of satoyama, long-standing traditions associated with land management practices that allow sustainable use of natural resources, has been extended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/satoyama-satoumi-ecosystems-and-human-well-being-socio-ecological-production-landscapes-of-japan-2</link>
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		<title>EU Enlargement and Turkish Labour Migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book provides an accessible and comprehensive evaluation of labour migration in general and Turkish labour migration to the European Union in particular. EU Enlargement and Turkish Labour Migration introduces the link between the European integration process and Turkish labour migration, and focuses on critical issues and policies relating to economic, demographic, political and social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unu.edu/publications/books/2010-2012/eu-enlargement-and-turkish-labour-migration</link>
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