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Briefing paper

Getting It Right: The pieces that matter for the Arms Trade Treaty

12/03/2013

8 documents

32 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Arms and bullets continue to destroy lives. Every continent in the world is marred by devastation caused by armed violence. Yet there is still no effective international regulation of the global arms trade. The need for an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which will create globally binding regulation of the international trade in conventional weapons for […]

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Briefing paper

Colombia: Contested spaces briefing paper

01/03/2013

2 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Colombia has one of the longest-running armed conflicts in the world. This briefing paper draws on Oxfam’s research in Colombia in late 2011 into the impacts of Colombia’s stabilization programme, the National Consolidation Plan (NCP). Interviewees clearly indicated that the NCP and other stabilization efforts had failed to make communities more secure, often leaving them […]

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Briefing paper

Mali’s Conflict Refugees: Responding to a growing crisis

22/01/2013

5 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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With conflict escalating in Mali, the aid effort to help some 145,000 refugees living in camps across remote, poor areas of the Sahel could become overwhelmed unless there is a step-change in the way aid operations are carried out. Since January 2012, nearly 375,000 Malians have fled the conflict in the north of their country. […]

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Case study

Within and Without the State: Effective programming in fragile and conflict affected contexts: Workshop Communique, November 2012

12/12/2012

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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This ‘Communique’, from the Within and Without the State Workshop, captures the key messages from the workshop, identifies areas for development and suggests key ways to take these forward. It was developed by the participants themselves throughout the course of the workshop.

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Briefing note

Beyond Ceasefire: Ending the blockade of Gaza

06/12/2012

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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The ceasefire agreed between the Government of Israel and Hamas on 21 November 2012, following the recent military escalation in Gaza and southern Israel, provides an unprecedented opportunity to end the cycle of violence that has affected too many innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians. In the ceasefire understanding, the parties agreed to negotiate ‘opening the […]

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Briefing paper

Commodities of War: Communities speak out on the true cost of conflict in eastern DRC

20/11/2012

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

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More than 760,000 people have been displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of 2012, in the Kivu provinces alone. This reflects a new dimension to the ongoing crisis for the country. Areas that were relatively stable are again under attack as the Congolese army fights M23 rebels, and new localised armed […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Power and Fragility: Governance Programming in Fragile Contexts: A Programme Resource

29/10/2012

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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‘Power and Fragility: Governance Programming in Fragile Contexts’ is based on work by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS)and brings together power and political economy analysis, and other research, undertaken in Rwanda, Myanmar, Yemen and Angola – in order to draw broader lessons for Oxfam for work on governance and citizenship in fragile contexts. The […]

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Case study

Protecting Communities in the DRC: Understanding gender dynamics and empowering women and men

08/10/2012

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Armed conflict has devastated large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1997. Civilians in many parts of the eastern provinces still face constant threats of forced displacement, sexual violence, abduction, and extortion, not only from militia groups but in many cases from those who are mandated to protect them. Oxfam’s protection programme in […]

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Briefing paper

Achieving Conflict Transformation

01/10/2012

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Oxfam’s mission is a just world without poverty, which seems an impossible task in countries where violence is an everyday feature. Oxfam Novib works predominantly in countries affected by inequality, violent conflicts and lack of mechanisms to address different and opposed interests. It is for this reason that Oxfam Novib and its partners recognise the […]

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Briefing note

Still Waiting For Change: Making the political transition work for women in Yemen

24/09/2012

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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Women played a key role in Yemen’s 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change. This report draws on research from a series of focus groups with Yemeni women, and calls on the Government of Yemen and the international community to support the humanitarian response, and help ensure women […]

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