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Enforcing Peace Agreements through Commitment Technologies

This paper models the instability of peace agreements, motivated by the empirical regularity with which peace agreements tend to break down following civil war. When war provides opportunities for profit to one side, or when other difficulties such...

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Rights-based Approach to Development

In April 2001 the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India arguing that the government has a duty to provide greater relief in the context of mass hunger. The litigation has now become the best known precedent...

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Enforcing Peace Agreements in Fragile States through Commitment Technologies

Part of Book Fragile States

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Rights-Based Approach to Development

Part of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

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