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    Meeting the needs of refugee children: is UNHCR protection sufficient?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Refugee children, especially adolescents, are acutely at risk from the effects of violence and conflict. Could the international community do more to offer them protection from sexual exploitation and forcible military recruitment? How could the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) use community services and education as tools of protection?
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    Women building peace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Children, the elderly, and women in particular suffer the most from armed conflict. Rape, detention, and forced displacement are amongst the human rights abuses that women often endure. Yet, during post-conflict recovery women’s experiences and perspectives are often ignored. How can a gender perspective be included in policy and programming, asks International Alert?
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    Politics of principle? Getting the ethics of humanitarian action right

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The idea that war has limits is as old as war itself. Today, this idea is expressed in the commitments made by signatories to the Geneva Conventions. In reality, however, humanitarian action in ‘other people’s wars’ is fraught with controversy. Not only are the limits disputed by warring parties, but in some cases humanitarian action is perverted for inhumane ends.
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    Is aid in crisis?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are aid agencies addressing the causes of conflict in dysfunctional states? Can humanitarian assistance be neutral when aid is an instrument of foreign policy wielded by powerful donor states? In an era of disintegrating state authority are aid providers succeeding in attempts to make relief more development-oriented?
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    Listen to the displaced: action research in Sri Lanka

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    When people flee natural disasters or conflict and capture the fickle attention of the media, why is it always officials and aid workers who grab the limelight? In our rush to deliver help why do we ignore the voices of the displaced? How can humanitarian agencies learn to listen when planning responses to their needs?
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    War and underdevelopment: challenges of the new humanitarianism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is underdevelopment, and the exclusion and destabilisation of developing countries it brings in its wake, a global security threat? How do development policy and conflict analysis dovetail to meet post-Cold War challenges? What can we learn from international responses to the internal and regional conflicts of recent years?
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    Peacebuilding from below: can NGOs promote non-violent conflict resolution processes?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can international NGOs (INGOs) integrate peacebuilding into development and relief work in conflict zones? What are the risks and consequences of mixing relief with peacebuilding? Can INGOs simultaneously be mediator, arbitrator, advocate, trainer, witness, supporter, counsellor and therapist in fraught circumstances?
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    Victims or partners? Working with women to rebuild the Balkans

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Massive resources have been deployed as the UN Interim Administration in Kosova (UNMIK) and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe spearhead attempts to rebuild ravaged Balkan societies. Why have post-war reconstruction initiatives treated women as victims rather partners?
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    Refugee return and state building: is the international community learning?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The return of refugee populations has become a fundamental objective of UN state building. As conflict-ridden nations attempt to rebuild, how should the international community combine refugee resettlement with the promotion of responsible governance? What can Afghanistan’s tortuous history of attempted state formation and refugee repatriation teach us about the difficulties?
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    The rise of the environmental refugee: nightmare in the making?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is environmental degradation set to create new waves of displaced people seeking asylum in the north? Will refugee camps and shantytowns foster civil disorder, pandemics and political extremism to threaten the interests of the developed world? Or is the concept of ‘environmental refugee’ a dangerous distraction from central issues of development and conflict resolution?

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