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  Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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  Guidelines for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings

  2002

  At the end of 2001, over 70 different countries experienced an emergency situation, resulting in over 50 million persons being affected worldwide. Conditions that define a complex emergency (conflict, social instability, poverty and powerlessness) are also the conditions that favour the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
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  The politics of poverty: aid in the new cold war

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report sets out mistakes that have been made in the past in relation to the politicisation of aid. Based on case studies in Afghanistan and Uganda, it also shows how they are being repeated. The authors argue that the growing politicisation of aid threatens to obscure the goal of poverty reduction.
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  How to fight, how to kill: child soldiers in Liberia

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report explores the human rights situation of child soldiers in Liberia through a series of interviews with former and current child soldiers undertaken in the country in late 2003.The report argues that approximately 15,000 boys and girls under the age of eighteen, some as young as nine and ten years old, were involved in the fighting in Liberia.
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  From civil strife to civic society: NGO-military cooperation in peace operations

  Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Carleton University, 2003

  This article examines the various factors impeding effective NGO-military cooperation, and offers suggestions for improvement of the relationship.
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  Education in situations of emergency, crisis and reconstruction: UNESCO strategy

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This document presents UNESCO’s strategy for emergency education, aimed at bringing education to the displaced, to people in countries affected by chronic low-level conflict, to populations in post-conflict situations and to those affected by natural disasters.The strategy has five basic components:ensuring the strategic function: in promoting education in situations of emergency
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  Community-driven reconstruction as an instrument in war-to-peace transitions

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper discusses the role that community-driven reconstruction (CDR) projects can play in promoting local involvement in post-conflict reconstruction and development.
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  Study of media in the North-East of Sri Lanka

  Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka, 2003

  This report examines the situation of the media in the North-East of Sri Lanka and its part in the ethno-political conflict of the country. It argues that after decades of ossified media culture it is now possible, after only fourteen months since the ceasefire, to detect some signs of change.
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  Moldova's transition to destitution

  SIDA Studies, 2000

  Reviews and analysis of events and issues which have led to Moldova’s severe peacetime decline in economic performance and living standards during the past decade.
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  Improvement of the water and sanitation situation for IDPs and residential population

  Yme, 2002

  This report focuses on the technical results of the emergency water and sanitation project for internally displaced persons (IDP’s) and the residential population in the Republic of Angola, by Yme as the implementing partner for UNHCR.

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