Iraq and Conflict and security
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- The BLDS conflict collection
- Search for the latest conflict-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Information guide on Iraq: conflict and forced migration
- J. Chanaa / Forced Migration Online, 2003
- This research guide provides an overview of Iraqs key geographic and thematic information on forced migration issues, and gathers together important resources available online and elsewhere. It addresses the causes and consequen...
- The state of Iraq's universities
- A. Lawler / SciDev.Net, 2003
- This article argues that despite the recent opening of Baghdad's Al-Mansour University College, Iraq's once-proud university system is weakened by more than a decade of economic sanctions, brain drain, and political oppression. Scores...
- What is the future for Iraq, the middle east and the war against terror and the legitimacy of the US?
- Foreign Policy [Journal], 2003
- What message did Saddams fall send to other dictators? Will it help the world reach a new consensus on how to handle weapons of mass destruction? What is the best way to rebuild Iraq? How can the United States recover its legiti...
- Survey of poverty and food security in Iraq
- T El-Guindi; H Al Mahdy; J. McHarris / United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2003
- The paper describes an analysis of chronic poverty for the Center/South region of Iraq. It finds that one in five Iraqis or 4.6 million people suffer from chronic poverty. WFP had estimated before the war that 60% of the Iraqi ...
- Rights-based advocacy for children in Iraq
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2003
- This report describes the political and socio-economic context of Iraq, the causes of increased infant mortality since the end of the 1980s, and the efforts made by UNICEF to improve child and maternal nutrition, health and sanitation...
- Iraq factsheet
- US Agency for International Development, 2003
- This factsheet lists the background humanitarian situation in Iraq before the 2003 war and recent assessments by area and sector. Areas include: Umm Qasr Al Basrah Northern Iraq Sectors as...
- Conditions necessary for democracy in Iraq
- Y. Ghai; M. Lattimer; Y. Said / Minority Rights Group International, 2003
- This report examines the conditions under which the next election in Iraq could claim to be more democratic. In doing this it considers not just the formal absence of dictatorship, but also the need to establish those features which a...
- UN leadership and reconstruction funded by allies is vital for Iraq recovery
- Oxfam, 2003
- Briefing notes proposing how the international community should assist the people of Iraq in establishing their own administration after the war. Proposals are based on Oxfam's experience and lessons from Kosovo, Bosnia, East Timor an...
- Why the official projections underestimate cost of Iraq war
- C. Kaysen; M. Miller; M. Malin; W. Nordhaus; J. Steinbruner / American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
- Starting from the premises that this paper does not and cannot either measure the extent to which military action today may reduce the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in the future or estimate the increase or decrease in r...
- Humanitarian impacts of war in Iraq
- Eldis Questioning Development Resource Guide, 2003
- Collection of documents forecasting the humanitarian consequences of the current war on Iraq. Common to these are assertions that: as a result of 12 years of sanctions, the Iraqi population is far more vulnerable...
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