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From Conflict to Peace in a Changing World: Social reconstruction in times of transition

01/01/1998

4 documents

146 pages long

Languages: English

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This Working Paper reproduces articles and essays which first appeared in the quarterly journal Development in Practice. The first part features contributions from scholars, agency representatives, practitioners, and policy-makers on the ethical and legal dimensions of humanitarian endeavour. The second part comprises a collection of original essays which were commissioned from some of the practitioners […]

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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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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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Development in States of War: Selected articles from Development in Practice

01/01/1996

2 documents

114 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Humanitarian relief has always focused on meeting the needs of people affected by war and armed conflict. Today, the same is increasingly true of development programmes. The challenge for aid agencies is not only to apply development principles to their emergency work, but also to address the issues arising from the reality of military conflict […]

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Violence against women: the international legal response

01/06/1995

6 pages long

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Violence against women: the international legal response

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In demanding the right to be free from violence, women are claiming what they are entitled to. Violence against women must be seen as a human-rights issue, and legal instruments created and enforced to guarantee protection for women. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for […]

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Refugee repatriation during conflict: Protection and post-return assistance

01/11/1994

15 pages long

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This article reports on the findings of the International Study of Spontaneous Voluntary Repatriation, begun by the authors in 1986, and involving case studies on return to countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It discusses the lack of recognition in both policy and practice of the pervasiveness of refugee-induced repatriation, and of repatriation during […]

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Rape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid’s legacy

01/06/1994

5 pages long

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Rape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid’s legacy

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In apartheid South Africa, rape became not only acceptable but also legitimised. The law recognises rape only in limited instances and fails to take effective preventative or punitive action. So expected is the violence that schoolgirls sometimes assist rapists. Armstrong links rape to poverty, race and class, with poor black women being targeted most often. […]

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Women refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/1994

5 pages long

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Oxfam has been providing water to women refugee camps in Bangladesh. Male officials run the camps, for women fleeing Burma. These men target women and children for ‘voluntary’ repatriation. Families are separated and sexual abuse is rife. Oxfam, in contrast, is successfully integrating gender equality into its water programme, made easier because Oxfam staff live […]

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Rwanda: An Agenda for International Action

01/01/1994

2 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Rwanda: An Agenda for International Action investigates the background to the genocide and refugee crisis which devastated Rwanda in 1994. There are crucial lessons to be learned from the catastrophe. For Rwanda and the whole region, the priorities now are to tackle poverty and promote peace. For the international community, which intervened too late to […]

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The Somali Conflict: Prospects for peace

01/01/1994

6 documents

156 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper was commissioned from Mark Bradbury by Oxfam (UK and Ireland), with the main aim of identifying practical ways in which the international group of Oxfam’s might contribute to the peace-making process in Somalia and Somaliland. When the paper was subsequently edited for publication, the recommendations which were originally specific to Oxfam, were generalised […]

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