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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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Briefing paper

2005: A year of disasters

18/10/2005

1 documents

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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Book

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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Journal article

Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

01/02/2005

7 pages long

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Gender and human security issues: building a programme of action-research

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Since March 2000, in partnership with the Women’s Centre of Montreal and other units at Montreal universities, McGill’s Centre for Developing-Area Studies has carried out an action-research programme on gender and human security issues in the context of war and reconstruction. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers and activists has been working locally with women refugees, […]

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Book

Gender, Peacebuilding, and Reconstruction

01/01/2005

1 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

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This collection of articles examines the impact of armed conflict on women, men, and gender relations. Gender stereotypes of conflict depict women and children as powerless victims, while men are presented either as saviours of the weak and powerless, or as agents of violence and destruction. Reality is more complex. Women, girls, and boys also […]

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Briefing paper

Protecting Civilians: A cornerstone of Middle East peace

01/05/2004

1 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English

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Civilians are paying a high price for the escalating violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. Hundreds of innocent lives are being lost and hundreds of thousands deprived of their basic rights as the security situation deteriorates. A solution to the conflict can only lie in a political process. In the meantime, civilians caught […]

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Campaign report

Beyond the Headlines: An agenda for action to protect civilians in neglected conflicts

03/11/2003

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Since the atrocities of September 11th 2001, the leaders of the major international powers have been focused upon confronting what they perceive as the greatest threat to world security: the combination of weapons of mass destruction and international terrorism. At the 2003 G8 summit in France, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, […]

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Briefing paper

Iraq: Humanitarian-Military relations

01/03/2003

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Humanitarian aid is most effectively delivered by civilian humanitarian agencies under UN leadership. Military involvement can compromise the effective delivery of aid and lead to unintended consequences, potentially threatening the security of civilian aid workers.

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Briefing paper

Protecting Iraq’s Civilians

06/01/2003

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The Iraqi people are already in a highly vulnerable situation. With Iraq’s basic infrastructures eroded by decades of war, national mismanagement and twelve years of sanctions, another war in Iraq will have devastating humanitarian consequences for the civilian population. For that reason, Oxfam remains convinced that military action is unjustifiable. One vital way to protect […]

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Book

The Karamoja Conflict: Origins, impacts and solutions

01/01/2003

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has worked in Uganda for over 20 years. When, in 1999, the Karamoja Programme Manager was shot at within a few metres of the project offices, Oxfam realised that no serious and sustained development work could take place in the absence of peace and security. Because conflict and insecurity are a constant reality in […]

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