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The Crisis In Darfur: An Opportunity For The United Nations To Reclaim Its Status As Standard Bearer For Peace And Security For The International Community, Leilani F. Battiste

Theses and Dissertations

Since early 2003, the western Darfur region of the Sudan has been subjected to a massive campaign of ethnic violence that has claimed the lives of almost 400,000 civilians, and has created nearly 2 million internally-displaced refugees or refugees that have fled to camps in neighboring Chad. Despite the unmistakable tragedy that has occurred and continues to occur, the international community has utterly failed to respond. The United Nations has taken almost no leadership role in abating or even stopping the crisis. Debate over whether the term "genocide" should be used to describe the ethnic cleansing and displacement of nearly …

Reshaping Natural Resources Management In A Globalized World : A Balancing Act, Lila Barrera-Hernández

Theses and Dissertations

Natural resources' development scenarios involving indigenous peoples and other minority stakeholders, foreign investors (private and public), and considerable environmental and social impacts are increasingly frequent, particularly in South America and other developing regions. Balancing development's impacts and benefits and looking after a country's balance of payments while taking into account, among other things, minority rights, respect for cultural identities, the need for widespread poverty alleviation and environmental stewardship is proving an extremely delicate task and one that increasingly requires thoughtful consideration of extraneous limitations, both factual and legal. Whilst a few decades ago the international law principle of permanent sovereignty …

Program Focus: The Women's Prison Association: Supporting Women Offenders And Their Families, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

This report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence - community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Popular police prevention approaches such as D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training), and the McGruff "Take a Bite out of Crime" campaigns have helped prepare police officers to work hand in hand in a variety of ways with local affiliates of national youth-serving organizations. In a growing number of cities, police are working with youth groups and finding that violence involving youth is rapidly …

Preservation Planning Series: Fy 82 State Program Overviews, Us Department Of The Interior

Federal Documents

We have compiled here the Program Overviews that the States were requested to prepare as part of their fiscal year 1982 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant application. The HPF grant application instructions stipulated that the overview was to be between three and ten pages and to comprise "a brief retrospective and prospective statement of the State's preservation program and of the means by which the State will continue to carry out the program of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended."

The State Plans and Grants Division has compiled these overviews in a single volume to facilitate their …