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  Kosovo and the changing face of humanitarian action

  Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, 2001

  Proceedings from the conference Kosovo and the Changing Face of Humanitarian Action that took place in Uppsala on May 8, 2001. The conference was organised by the Collegium for Development Studies in co-operation with Globkom, the Swedish Parliamentary Commission on Global Development.
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  Rapid educational response in complex emergencies

  International Bureau of Education, UNESCO, 1998

  This document is an attempt to open a dialogue among educators working in the area of complex emergencies and provide a practical tool, and to explain and illustrate each phase of an emergency response using mainly the UNHCR Guidelines. The publication is comprised of four parts:Part One summarizes the basic policy instruments that advocate education as a child’s rightPart Two analy
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  Education in situations of emergency and crisis: challenges for the new century

  UNESCO Emergency Education Materials, 2000

  This study is one of a series of thematic studies prepared as part of the Education for All (EFA) Assessment for the Year 2000.During the 1990s, national governments and humanitarian agencies, have initiated emergency education programmes in refugee camps and settlements and in countries affected by war and disaster.
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  Promoting democratic governance and preventing the recurrence of conflict: the role of the United Nations Development Programme inpost conflict peace-building

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001

  This paper assesses the scope and significance of the new development agenda endorsed by UNDP and attempts to gauge the promises and dilemmas of its efforts to consolidate peace by promoting democracy and strengthening good governance, focusing on the experiences of Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.The paper first scrutinises the emergence of democracy and good governance in the agenda of t
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  Refugees and asylum seekers in London: a GLA perspective

  Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK, 2001

  This article discusses refugees and asylum seekers in London.The article recommends that:vouchers should be replaced with cash paymentsthe present system of ‘dispersal’ should be replaced with a national system of reception and settlement of asylum seekers designed to meet their needsplans for large-scale forcible administrative removal of failed asylum applicants should be drop
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  Review of the former Soviet embassy compound IDP camp: psychosocial support activities Kabul, Afghanistan

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2001

  This article investigates the psychosocial support activities in the Kabul camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs).
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  Humanitarian and human rights emergencies

  Brookings Institution, 2001

  As the world's only super-power and a major humanitarian aid donor, the United States has a critical role in shaping the response to these emergencies.This policy briefing states that whether or not the Bush administration decides to maintain American leadership in this area, it will have to develop firm guidelines for humanitarian action in the cases it chooses to address.
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  Descent into disaster?: Afghan refugees

  Middle East Report, 2001

  This article discusses the refugee situation in Afghanistan and surrounding countries.The article finds that:inside Afghanistan, millions of Afghans rely on international food aid for survivalthe international community has left Pakistan to manage the flood of refugees into its country on its own in a faltering economythere has been increasing hostility to Afghan refugee within
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  Imposing aid

  Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2001

  This electronic resource is concerned with the most 'durable' solutions to the refugee problem in Africa, settlement in the host country. In particular it examines an emergency programme mounted in response to an influx of refugees from Uganda into southern Sudan.The resource is also presented as a book.
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  Violence against civilians in civil wars: looting or terror?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This paper analyses the hypothesis that terrorising the civilian population plays a military role.

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