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Rethinking principles of assessment in complex emergencies: the food economy alternative
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003When aid agencies respond to food needs in situations of chronic conflict and political instability (SCCPI), do they consider livelihoods carefully enough? How can they better analyse the effects of hazards on household access to food and income? Is it possible to increase communication between political economists and food security analysts?DocumentPolitics v humanitarianism on the front line – can the UN get its act together?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003Are peacekeeping operations incoherent? Has the humanitarian imperative of protecting and saving lives in conflict taken second place to UN peace operations? Has pursuit of the myth of sustainable peace distracted the UN from the more immediate necessity of keeping people alive?DocumentWater, livelihoods and resettlement of displaced people: lessons from Eritrea
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003In the past decade, the Gash-Barka region in Eritrea’s western lowlands on the borders of Sudan and Ethiopia has become a site of resettlement for refugees returning from Sudan and those displaced by border clashes with Ethiopia. What impact has their arrival had on an already fragile natural resource base? What lessons can be applied to other settlement schemes for displaced people?DocumentResearching internal displacement: state of the art: conference Report, 7-8 February 2003 Trondheim, Norway
Forced Migration Review, 2003This conference summary highlights lessons learned by the growing body of scholars analysing the plight of the millions of people internally displaced by armed conflict and violence, human rights violations, natural or human-made disasters and development projects. It sets out answers to key questions facing IDP researchers:What distinguishes research on internal displacement?What aDocumentTackling poverty by reducing armed violence: recommendations from a Wilton Park Workshop
Department for International Development, UK, 2003This paper reports on a DFID sponsored conference at which small arms experts and development agency representatives discussed ways and means of integrating arms controls into development policy and programmes.Key findings and recommendations that emerged from that workshop include:small arms availability and use is a development issue but more needs to be done to document its impact onDocumentShifting sands: oil exploration in the Rift Valley and the Congo conflict
Pole Institute, 2003This paper addresses the impact of the oil exploration in the Rift Valley (East Congo) on the crisis in the country.DocumentEconomic imperative for peace in Sri Lanka
International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2003What is the relationship between economic growth and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka?DocumentSelling timber or nature? Reconciling forestry and tourism in Mexico
E-review of Tourism Research, 2003This short paper describes research is based on a comparative case study of two communities in southern Mexico: Santa Catarina Ixtepeji and Santa Maria Yavesia in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.DocumentIraq: FMO research guide
Forced Migration Online, 2003This research guide provides an overview of Iraq’s key geographic and thematic information on forced migration issues, and gathers together important resources available online and elsewhere.