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Renewable Natural ResourcesThis paper explores how a 'conflict
 and violence sensitive' framework in project
 assessment, design and implementation facilitates early
 identification and mitigation of negative consequences
 of competition and dispute, and promotes sustainable
 development over the longer term. It discusses the role of
 renewable resources in perpetuating conflict and violence,
 and distills lessons from selected development programming
 experiences in managing conflict risks associated with these
 dynamics. The study emphasizes that building capacity to
 productively address conflict and to improve community
 resilience to ecological change decreases vulnerability to
 violence, and improves livelihoods particularly for the
 world's poorest communities. The study draws on a
 range of development experience and specifically examines
 six case studies: three from the World Bank portfolio and
 three external to the Bank. Of the World Bank projects, the
 paper considers Andhra Pradesh Community Forest Management
 Project (India), Land Conflict and Vulnerability Pilot
 Project (Afghanistan), and Second Fadama Development Project
 (Nigeria). The paper also studies three external cases:
 conservation of managed indigenous areas (Ecuador) and
 Building the Capacity of Institut Congolais pour la
 Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) to Resolve and Manage
 Environmental Conflicts in Virunga National Park (DRC), both
 financed by U.S. Agency for International Development
 (USAID); and the Community Development Component of German
 Technical Cooperation's (GTZ's) Palestinian Water
 Program (West Bank). The concluding chapter outlines good
 practice and lessons learned from experience, emphasizing
 principals for building institutional and organizational
 capacity that support constructive conflict management.
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Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked by a Library of CultureHumans are relational beings with their modeled behavior as practical examples of cultural routines that they hear, see, read, and assemble on their own from communal pieces of information to answer the needs of their everyday lives (Bandura, & Jeffrey, 1973). Yet few researchers have looked at the differing synthesis of culture and generally assume that others share similar ideas/values that lead to particular events and worldviews (Lillard, p.5 1998). Informational and cultural contact zones can be created to support CLNs, universities, and individuals in a variety of roles to encourage their interactions so they might design, and challenge the fundamentals of these programs and seek to better cooperation amongst the public itself (Tremmel, 2000). By increasing communication and collaboration of educational systems throughout the community will begin to raise the standard of living for all people (Bohn, & Schmidt, 2008). This will begin to draw people out from the digital divide and increase the access of technology and information available to all people with the community. Utilizing CLNs to support and further education will allow an interconnected web of assessments, standards, and cooperative efforts that has the potential of increasing democracy by empowering people from their communities.
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Liberia Rapid Social AssessmentThis note summarizes the main findings of the Rapid Social Assessment (RSA) Update. To respond to community tensions and to build upon emergent positive social relations the Update recommended a new impetus for local and community development in Liberia. Community Driven Development (CDD) operations are an appropriate way to foster cohesion at the local level but the RSA Update suggests that they still need to provide more attention to the following key areas at the local level: i) Improving representation and participation in local and community development processes; ii) Working within emerging local governance structures; iii) Strengthening coordination of local and community development.