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The Shrinking Costs of War

The Shrinking Costs of War produced by the Human Security Report Project argues that wartime mortality from disease and malnutrition, as well as war-inflicted injuries, has been driven downwards by:
- Significant changes in the nature of warfare––evident in the 70 percent decline in the number of high-intensity conflicts since the end of the Cold War.
- More than 30 years of highly effective health interventions in poor countries in peacetime––which have cut death tolls from disease during wartime.
- A dramatic increase in the level and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance to people in war zones.

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The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar

This paper by the Institute for the Study of War describes the Taliban's multi-year campaign to exert control over Kandahar City. Kandahar is the center of gravity of the Quetta Shura Taliban’s efforts in Afghanistan. The paper demonstrates why Coalition forces have hitherto inadequately responded to the Taliban in Kandahar, and explains why ISAF will most likely allocate additional forces to the districts around Kandahar City in 2010.

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Human Rights Watch
World Report 2010

In 2009, Human Rights Watch staff conducted extensive investigative work in more than 90 nations and territories worldwide. Summarizing their findings is the 2010 World Report, the 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe.

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Rhetoric and Reality:
The Failure to Resolve
the Darfur Conflict

UN Photo/Olivier Chassot

This Small Arms Survey Working Paper, based on interviews with mediators, government officials, humanitarian workers, and militia and rebel leaders, traces the troubled history of peace efforts after Abuja. It attributes their failure to the interplay of a flawed process and an unfavorable context—including a lack of will among the Sudanese parties, a breakdown of trust among all actors (including international ones), and a growing belief that a signed agreement means nothing more than temporary repositioning.

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Will Canada Be a UN Peacekeeper Again?

This luncheon event features Professor Walter Dorn of the Canadian Forces College in conversation with Gloria Galloway of the Globe and Mail. Walter Dorn will consider whether now is the time that Canada should recommit to United Nations peacekeeping.

The event will be held on Thursday, February 11, 2010, from 12:00 until 1:45 pm, at the Sheraton Hotel, 150 Albert Street, in downtown Ottawa.

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