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    Shooting down the MDGs: how irresponsible arms transfers undermine development goals

    Oxfam, 2008
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are under threat from conflict and armed violence. Each of the eight targets are undermined by conflict, whether it be directly i.e. the death of the family’s main income earner or indirectly - destroyed health facilities, ‘abused’ natural resources and closed schools.
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    Between war and peace: land and humanitarian action in Colombia

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007
    This Working Paper highlights some of the main land tenure issues in Colombia. It aims to look at how some of the humanitarian organisations in Colombia are responding to the country’s crisis, outline the challenges they confront, and assess the importance of understanding and addressing land tenure issues in humanitarian response.
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    New thinking is needed to unlock Africa’s development traps

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Africa has stagnated for 40 years and now needs a ‘big push’ to escape from four mutually-reinforcing development ‘traps’ –  conflict, corruption, dependence on primary commodities and fractionalised societies. Aid alone cannot turn things round. Africa’s development prospects depends on security, good governance and trade preferences.
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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.
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    ‘Civil society with guns is not civil society’: aid, security and civil society In Afghanistan

    Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 2008
    Afghanistan has become the first theatre in which the USA’s seemingly contradictory goals of the War on Terror and the promotion of liberal democracy and free markets are being played out to their full. This paper examines the intensified convergence of aid, security and foreign policy goals since 9/11 and its effects on civil society in the context of Afghanistan.
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    Changing donor policy and practice on civil society in the post-9/11 aid context

    Development Studies Institute, LSE, 2008
    Through case studies of select bilateral development agencies (USAID, AusAID, DFID and SIDA), this paper explores changing policy and practice on civil society since 9/11. It identifies some emerging patterns and points out distinctions related to the security priorities of different governments, the bureaucratic architecture, and the historical backdrop to aid.
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    Humanitarian implications of climate change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots

    Reliefweb, 2008
    This study identifies the most likely humanitarian implications of climate change for the next 20-30 year period. The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards associated with climate change – specifically: floods, cyclones and droughts – and place them in relation to factors influencing vulnerability.
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    Remapping the politics of aid after the Indian Ocean tsunami

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 caused massive human and economic destruction. It also triggered an unprecedented global aid response. Conventional aid through formal organisations combined with direct individual donations, and community and trans-national networks to influence aid distribution. In southern Thailand, these patterns contributed to varying rates of recovery.
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    Learning from experience to deal with slow-onset disasters

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    By definition, there is more time to plan and implement an appropriate response to a slow-onset disaster, such as a drought. Yet experience indicates a lack of learning and the repetition of mistakes. Too often, humanitarian agencies do not intervene until a disaster has reached crisis stage. 
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    Balancing humanitarian and human rights needs in Darfur

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Humanitarian agencies responding to the suffering in Darfur have not only provided relief, but also spoken out on the politics of the crisis. In doing so, they have angered the Sudanese Government in Khartoum, which has come to see them as tools of Western interference. Humanitarian agencies risk compromising their commitment to neutrality and jeopardising operations in the field.

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