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No Peace without Development Kyrgyzstan is a multiethnic country with little or no open violent conflict. However, weak governance, lack of dialogue and trust between the population and the authorities, unequal power relations, and the marginalization of some groups, including youth and women, feeds discontent. Read more...
Ecuador´s northern border has been historically marginalized, and this has resulted in high levels of poverty and limited social services and infrastructure. In recent years, this vulnerable zone has also suffered from the destabilizing consequences of the crisis across the Colombian border. Over 60,000 Colombians have fled their country and now live in northern Ecuador. Other effects of the cross-border crisis include trafficking in small arms and drugs. Read more...
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Over the last few years, the United Nations (UN) has assisted many countries in managing complex political transitions, in particular in the context of elections. In Ghana, the United Nations worked with the government, the electoral commission, the media and civil society to ensure that the 2008 elections were peaceful. This success can be attributed mainly to the existence of national and local institutions capable of mediating disputes peacefully. 
In May 2007, whilst most of Lebanon was still struggling to recover from the destruction caused by the 2006 July war, violent clashes erupted between the Lebanese Army and militants from the Fath El Islam, a Salafist group, in the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country. The conflict seriously affected the population in the camp and in neighboring communities. 