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    Peace processes and statebuilding: economic and institutional provisions of peace agreements

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    During the past decade, there has been a growing international engagement in statebuilding and postconflict reconstruction. In this context, the World Bank and UNDP recently decided to make peace agreements one focus of their joint programme on statebuilding. This report presents the findings of a study commissioned as a first step towards achieving this.
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    Humanitarianism and the Muslim world

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 2007
    The majority of those receiving humanitarian assistance world-wide are Muslim. This paper argues that insufficient attention has been paid to this fact, and that a closer examination is required in light of the West’s increasingly strained relationship with the Muslim world. The paper explores the subject through five lines of inquiry:
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    Children's security in post-conflict peacebuilding

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2007
    This document discusses elements of the post-conflict peace building process such as Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR). It also highlights the importance of applying a security governance approach to the peace building agenda and introduces a framework for operationalising it.
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    International organisations in Mindanao: to protect or not?

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 2007
    This document explores issues surrounding protection and protection deficits from International Organisations (IOs) and International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs). Based on field research in Mindanao (Philippines), the paper focuses on why actions towards civilian protection vary so much and why some IOs and INGOs are more pro-active in protecting civilians than others.
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    Handbook for emergencies

    United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2007
    This third edition of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) ‘Handbook for Emergencies’ provides UNHCR’s non-governmental partners with detailed information on how to respond to emergency situations. The revised handbook includes a number of important updates including:
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    Consolidating stability in Haiti

    International Crisis Group, 2007
    This document discusses the security challenges facing Haiti’s President, René Préval. It also looks at some of the successes and areas of weaknesses before putting forward recommendations to UN agencies, the international community, and the President and Government.
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    The use of cash in emergency and post-emergency non-food item programs: a case study from the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 2007
    This paper explores the impacts of a pilot cash transfer programme in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The results of the pilot shed light on intra-household decision-making dynamics, the appropriateness of cash interventions, and the non-food items in demand by families in this post-conflict setting.
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    Protection of civilians in African peace missions: the case of the African Union Mission in Sudan, Darfur

    Institute for Security Studies, 2007
    This paper examines the problems of civilian protection created by the war in Darfur, focusing on the role of African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and the challenges it has encountered in protecting civilians in Darfur.
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    Consolidating the peace?: views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

    CARE International, 2007
    This report assess the first year of work by the United Nations Peacebuilidng Commission (PBC). The report coincides with the PBC’s own first annual report to the General Assembly and assesses the PBC’s impacts on its first two focus countries: Sierra Leone and Burundi.
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    Political complexities of humanitarian intervention in the Pakistan earthquake

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 2007
    This paper provides an introduction to the main political issues faced by international humanitarian agencies following the Pakistan earthquake in 2006. The report argues that humanitarian agencies, despite pretences to neutrality, have fed into existing political fault-lines.

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