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Nidhi Nagabhatla to Join as Distinguished Speaker at International Conference in New Delhi
Nidhi Nagabhatla, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS, has been invited to be a distinguished speaker at an International Conference in New Delhi
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Hardening Ceasefire Lines in Protracted Secessionist Conflicts: From the Negotiating Table and International Law to Realities on the Ground in the Case of the Abkhaz–Georgian War
This is an open-access chapter examines the transformation of ceasefire lines (CfLs) in the context of protracted secessionist conflicts.
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Toward SDG 6 in the Deduru Oya Basin, Sri Lanka: Assessing Localized Progress in Rural and Urban Settings
UNU-CRIS contributes to research on Sri Lanka's SDG 6 Progress: Deduru Oya Basin as a reference for Island Nation Water Security Standard
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Nandita Matthews
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