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The environment-security nexus is not a new topic in academic and political discourse, but it has currently gained new significance due to a number of factors. Growing concerns about global environmental change including climate change and fears about increasing demand and competition for natural resources caused by population growth and economic development both figure prominently among these factors.

The planned and spontaneous arming of refugees and IDPs threatens access to asylum as well as protection. But while the policy debates rage over how to deal with armed refugees and how to prevent their spill-over into neighbouring countries, surprisingly little research has been done to explain why displaced people arm themselves or how militarization affects the local and host populations. This book traces the experience of refugee and IDP militarization in four African countries emerging from or affected by war: Guinea, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. It considers the effects of such militariz

Achieving the millennium development goals: the role played by conversion. - S. 12-21 Outsourcing the state? Security governance and the privatization of military functions. - S. 88-108 Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration without camps: the need for decentralized approaches. - S. 112-125 Security sector reform in post-conflict societies: assessing the record in Afghanistan and Iraq. - S. 126-144