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Reducing Risk: Participatory teaming activities for disaster mitigation in Southern Africa

01/01/1996

9 documents

339 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1991 -92 Southern Africa was severely affected by the region’s “worst drought in living memory”. The response which followed drew together the international community with Southern Africa’s governments, NGOs, and private companies to mitigate the drought’s impact. In partnership with the Department of Adult and Community Education at the University of Natal, the Regional […]

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Sudan: A nation in the balance

01/01/1996

4 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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Sudan, the largest country in Africa, has known only ten years of peace since achieving independence in 1956. Internal conflicts have devastated the economy and disrupted communities: hundreds of thousands of people and their livestock have been displaced; traditional values and customs have broken down. How do people manage to survive in such circumstances?

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Women, war and transition

01/10/1995

7 pages long

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War represents transition in its most violent and bewildering form. Yet the destructive capacity of war derives not from physical violence alone but also from the deep injuries to people’s sense of themselves and their sense of identity as a member of a community. In war, both the physical and the moral underpinnings of society […]

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One Earth, Two Worlds

01/01/1995

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Poor people in the South have every reason to protect their own environment; they depend on it more directly than the rich and are more immediately affected by its destruction or deterioration. Yet in many places they are powerless to defend or improve it.

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The Oxfam Poverty Report

01/01/1995

5 documents

257 pages long

Languages: English

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The Oxfam Poverty Report draws on Oxfam’s experience of working in over 70 countries, to examine the causes of poverty and conflict. It identifies the structural forces which deny people their basic rights, and gives a wide range of examples of the ways in which men and women are bringing about positive change at every […]

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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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Journal article

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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Journal article

Introduction

01/06/1994

3 pages long

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Since autumn 1992 harassment of people of Kasaian origin in Shaba (formerly Katanga) in southern Zaire has resulted in massive displacement. More than 150,000 people have fled north into East and West Kasai, using whatever transport they could find. In October 1992 a Comite de Co-ordination des Refoules (CCR) was set up by local churches, […]

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Journal article

Training indigenous workers in mental-health care

01/05/1994

11 pages long

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This article develops issues raised in Hans Buwalda’s article, ‘Children of war in the Philippines’. It considers the training of indigenous workers in mental-health care in areas of recent or continuing armed conflict. It explores the possibilities of combining Western therapeutic techniques with local and culturally appropriate ways of working. It stresses the need to […]

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Children of war in the Philippines

01/02/1994

10 pages long

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Political armed conflict has important ramifications in the lives of children as individuals and on social development more generally. However, the emotional problems faced by children during and after war or political violence are rarely considered in development literature and practice. This article recounts the experience of working with severely traumatised children in the Philippines, […]

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