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Rwanda: beyond ethnic conflict

01/11/1997

11 pages long

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This paper explores some of the reasons for the failure of the international community to act decisively in pre-empting the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. These are rooted both in long-distant history and in the dynamics of post-Cold War international politics. Drawing on a decade of experience in Central Africa, the author looks critically at the […]

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For better? For worse? Humanitarian aid in conflict

01/11/1997

12 pages long

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Humanitarian aid should be judged against international humanitarian law (IHL) which gives civilians certain rights, including protection in armed conflicts. Aid agencies should consider the various side-effects of their interventions in order to assess the net impact, and decide whether to work in any given situation. They have no responsibility to provide aid where the […]

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Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and solidarity

01/11/1997

11 pages long

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The article explores the moral difficulties for international humanitarian workers operating as third parties in the midst of war. The main part examines current usage of the terms `humanity’, `neutrality’, `impartiality’, and `solidarity’ as they are used in the discourse of humanitarian operations. The article then considers the psychological implications for relief workers of operating […]

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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

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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‘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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Book

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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Discussion paper

Sanitation in Emergency Situations: Proceedings of an international workshop, held in Oxford, December 1995

01/01/1996

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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In December 1995 an international workshop was held in Oxford to consider the technical and organisational problems of sanitation in emergency situations and share experience of good practice. Papers were presented on a variety of topics, and delegates also met in small working groups to discuss specific issues arising from these papers.

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Disease Prevention Through Vector Control: Guidelines for relief organisations

01/01/1995

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

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The number of refugees and displaced persons has increased greatly in recent years. At least 80 per cent of them are living in tropical or semi-tropical countries where vector borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue, kala azar, sleeping sickness, dysentery, and cholera are common. In the crowded and unhygienic conditions of emergency camps, such diseases […]

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Alternatives to residential care for children

01/05/1994

3 pages long

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Institutional care for children separated from their family (for whatever reason) continues to be the first choice of governments of developing countries. The long-term consequences of institutionalisation can be severe and in 1991, Save the Children Fund (UK) (SCFUK) initiated a research programme to examine the experience SCF and its partners have had of working […]

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