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Sustainability and peace building: a key challenge

01/11/2005

9 pages long

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The overarching challenge facing the growing number of international peace-building interventions is to achieve sustainable peace. This paper illustrates this proposition through a brief investigation of the situation in Timor-Leste as the UN mission withdraws at the five-year state-building mark, and in Haiti as a ninth UN mission is established. Adopting the view that participatory […]

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Rebuilding a failed state: Liberia

01/11/2005

7 pages long

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This article argues for a combination of long-term engagement in providing security, culminating in training and mentoring of new security forces; a comprehensive approach to reintegrating ex-combatants that also benefits civilian host communities and helps to ensure that agricultural livelihoods are made viable; and the opening of a space for discussion of governance issues and […]

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Towards more effective peace building: a conversation with Roland Paris

01/11/2005

11 pages long

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Since the early 1990s, the international community has become increasingly involved in efforts to (re-)build states that have been torn by war and violent conflict. Today, the United Nations alone is engaged in more than ten political and peace-building missions around the world. Roland Paris’s most recent work, At War’s End: Building Peace after Civil […]

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Annotated resources on peace building and post-war reconstruction

01/11/2005

16 pages long

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This annotated list highlights some 70 recent publications and organisations that focus primarily on what happens after rather than before or during armed conflict. Issues covered include the political, economic, and social aspects of post-war reconstruction, and questions related to transitional justice and post-conflict reconciliation, and we have sought to offer a sample of the […]

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Peace building: a literature review

01/11/2005

7 pages long

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A critical review of five contrasting publications on peace building, including the 2004 UN report A More Secure World. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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Briefing note

Predictable Funding for Humanitarian Emergencies: A challenge to donors

24/10/2005

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Every year the lives of millions of people are devastated by natural disasters, conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. 2005 has seen particularly extreme humanitarian emergencies including the tsunami, the Sahel food crisis, and hurricanes Katrina and Stan. Tackling these crises requires a range of actions including immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development. This short paper […]

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Briefing paper

2005: A year of disasters

18/10/2005

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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2005 has been a year of disasters. The international response has been characterized by televised suffering of the survivors of South Asia’s earthquake and the tsunami, driving great generosity. But it has also been characterized by the continuing failure of governments to provide timely, sufficient aid to those, largely in Sub Saharan Africa, who suffer […]

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Briefing note

Targeting Poor People: Rebuilding lives after the tsunami

25/06/2005

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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In the six months since the tsunami hit, the relief and reconstruction effort has delivered real progress for the millions of people affected by the disaster. The relief effort helped to stop the outbreak of diseases such as cholera in affected communities, partly through the effective delivery of clean water and sanitation. A predicted massive […]

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Briefing paper

The G8: Global arms exporters: Failing to prevent irresponsible arms transfers

22/06/2005

1 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English

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The international arms trade lacks effective control. Irresponsible arms transfers continue to fuel armed violence. They contribute to violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and they undermine development. The uncontrolled proliferation of conventional arms, particularly small arms and light weapons (hereafter referred to as small arms), has taken a terrible toll on communities […]

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Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations

13/06/2005

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

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It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency. Compared with other sectors of response, there has […]

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