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1 INDEX OF ABREVEATIONS AAF ADB ACBAR ARC BMLVS CARE CDA CEMAC CI CIMIC CPI CRO DFID DPKO EU EUFOR EULEX Austrian Armed Forces Austrian Defence Budget Agency Coordination Body for Afghan Relief Austrian Relief Committee for Afghan Refugees Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport (Federal Ministry of Defense ans Sport) formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe Collaborative Learning Projects Communauté Économique des États d Afrique Centrale (Economic Community of Central African States) Caritas International Civil-Military Cooperation Consumer Price Index Crisis Response Operations Department for International Development, UK Department of Peacekeeping Operations European Union European Union Force European Union Rule of Law Mission 327

2 FATA FCFA FDI GDP GNI HDI HICP JEM ICO ICM IFK IPKF ISAF IRC KCB KEC KFOR KTA LCCP LDCs Federal Administered Tribal Areas Franc Colonies Françaises d Afrique Foreign Direct Investments Gross Domestic Product Gross National Income Human Development Index Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices Justice and Equality Movement International Civilian Office International Crisis Management Institut für Friedensicherung und Konfliktmanagement (Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management) Indian Peace Keeping Force International Security Assistance Force International Rescue Committee Kosovo Consolidated Budget Kosovo Energy Cooperation Kosovo Force Kosovo Trust Agency Local Capacities for Peace Project Less Developed Countries 328

3 LLDCs LOTFA LTTE MCDA MDG MINURCAT MINURSO MINUSTAH MONUC MSA MUICP NATO NGOs NWFP OCHA OEF ONUB Least Developed Countries Law and Order Trust Fund Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Military and Civil Defence Assets Millennium Development Goals Mission des Nations Unies en République Centrafricaine et au Tchad (United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad) Misiòn de las Naciones Unidas para el Referendum en el Sahara Occidental (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western) Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) Mission de l Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (United Nations Mission Democratic Republic Congo) Mission Subsistence Allowance Monetary Union Indices of Consumer Prices North Atlantic Treaty Organization Non-governmental Organizations North-West Frontier Province Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Operation Enduring Freedom United Nations Operation in Burundi 329

4 OSCE OXFAM PEACE PISG PNSB POE(s) PPPs PRTs QIP(s) SAARC SAFTA SAPTA SECADEV SPM(s) SOEs SRSG STM TCN(s) UNAMA Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe formerly Oxford Committee for Famine Relief Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperative Enhancement Provisional Institutions of Self-Government Peace-, Nation- und State-Building Publicly-Owned Enterprise(s) Public Private Partnerships Provincial Reconstruction Teams Quick Impact Project(s) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation South Asian Free Trade Area South Asian Preferential Trade Area Secours Catholique pour le Developpement (Catholic Development assistance) Special Political Mission(s) Socially Owned Enterprises Special Representative of the Secretary General Stabilization Tracking Mechanism Troop Contributing Nation(s) United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan 330

5 UNAMID UNAMSIL UNCF UNDAC UNDP UNHCR UNISDR UNMIK UNMIL UNMIS UNOCI UNTAC UNTAET UNTSO USAID UNV VLA WTO United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone United Nations International Children s Emergency Fund United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination United Nations Development Program United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction United Nations Mission in Kosovo United Nations Mission in Liberia United Nations Mission in Sudan United Nations Operation in Côte d Ivoire United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor United Nations Truce Supervision Organization United States Agency for International Development United Nations Volunteers Volunteer Living Allowance World Trade Organization 331

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