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Communal conflict, NGO s, and the power of religious symbols 1

01/02/1997

9 pages long

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This article describes the activities of an indigenous NGO in Ahmedabad, India in attempting to prevent communal violence. It attempts to explain why the use of religious symbols seems to be particularly potent in causing slum riots. Finally, it discusses various lessons learned for international and indigenous NGOs which are attempting to counteract communal violence. […]

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Empowerment and survival: humanitarian work in civil conflict

01/02/1997

9 pages long

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This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for poverty focused NGOs in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Drawing on 12 years’ work in Central America, the author reflects on the demands and constraints placed on international aid workers in the […]

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Book

A Safer Future: Reducing the human cost of war

01/01/1997

1 documents

128 pages long

Languages: English

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A Safer Future draws on Oxfam’s experience of working with communities caught up in armed conflict in many countries around the world and makes recommendations for urgent action by governments that would reduce the risk of war and protect civilian lives. It looks specifically at changes in international policies and pre-emptive action by the international […]

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Book

Empowering Communities: A casebook from West Sudan

01/01/1997

1 documents

97 pages long

Languages: English

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This casebook examines the way in which a participative approach to development can result in empowerment for communities. The Kebkabiya project in the west of Sudan began as an attempt to improve food security in the wake of a major famine. Over the years Oxfam, who initiated the project, handed over responsibility to a community-based […]

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Book

Disabled Children in a Society at War: A casebook from Bosnia

01/01/1997

1 documents

144 pages long

Languages: English

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This casebook analyzes the lessons for working with disabled children learned from a programme initiated by Oxfam at the height of the civil war in Bosnia. Disabled children in Former Yugoslavia were traditionally cared for in centralized institutions which were run by State-paid ‘defectologists’. When State services began to break down under pressure of war, […]

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Book

Capacity-Building: An approach to people-centred development

01/01/1997

4 documents

236 pages long

Languages: English

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Capacity-building is an integral part of development theory and practice. However, aid agencies that ignore theory and practice. However, aid agencies that ignore people’s existing strengths may create dependency, and so make people more vulnerable than before. This book considers specific and practical ways in which NGOs can contribute to enabling people to build on […]

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Book

Mali: A prospect of peace?

01/01/1997

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Most people in the industrialised world have heard of Timbuktu, even if they could not find this ancient centre of civilisation on the map. In fact, it is in Mali, a West African country which is rapidly coming to terms with the modern world. In 1991 the people of Mali overthrew a military dictatorship; democratic […]

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Book

El Salvador: Peace on trial

01/01/1997

4 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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When the war in El Salvador came to an end with the signing of the Peace Accords in Chapultepec, Mexico, in January 1992, there were many unresolved issues facing the country. This book in Oxfam’s Country Profile series gives an account of the history of El Salvador, and the inequalities and political corruption in Salvadoran […]

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Empowerment and survival

01/11/1996

10 pages long

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This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for poverty-focused NGOs in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Based on 12 years’ work in Central America, the article reflects on the demands and constraints placed on international aid workers in the context […]

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‘Dancing with the prince’: NGO’s survival strategics in the Afghan conflict

01/08/1996

12 pages long

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Afghan NGOs have been a major provider of humanitarian aid throughout the Afghan conflict. They remained operational during this period by ‘dancing’ with and between the various parties to the conflict, their survival contingent on their ability to build ad hoc patterns of alliance and cooperation. This article explores the nature of ‘the dance’ between […]

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