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    Afghanistan and Central Asia: priorities for reconstruction and development

    International Crisis Group, 2001
    This article discusses the contemporary conflict in Afghanistan, and means of ensuring stability and security.The article recommends that:donors should adopt a regional approach, tackling development, drugs and security problems not just in Afghanistan but in the neighbouring countries as welldonors should establish a coordinated set of trust funds that will allow rapid disbursemen
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    Involuntary displacement, impoverishment and recovery

    Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University, 2001
    The paper discusses the extent to which involuntary displacement is an impoverishing experience and how this experience affects refugees' ability to cope in adversity.Some of the questions addressed include:why is involuntary displacement an impoverishing experience?what are the material and non-material losses involuntarily displaced populations experience?how do involuntarily
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    Gender equity and sustainable development

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Positioning gender equity as an essential building block of sustainable development the paper "addresses a small number of gender-sensitive issues which need to be taken into account by policy-makers and stakeholders working on solutions to the urgent economic, political, social and environmental problems we face".The issues covered are:Human rights and self-determination - looking part
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    Building peace in war-torn societies: from concept to strategy

    Netherlands Institute of International Relations, 2001
    Following a period of violent conflict , war torn societies face many challenges. In many cases, societies themselves lack the human, institutional and financial resources to tackle theses problems.
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    People in peril: human rights, humanitarian action, and preventing deadly conflict

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 1998
    Intolerance of diversity within states frequently explodes into mass violence.
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    The strategic significance of global inequality

    Jubilee Research, 2001
    Is there a "strategic significance" to global inequalities in income levels and economic growth, and, if so, which policies might the United States pursue to address those strategic concerns? This paper focusses on the scope and limitations of U.S.
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    Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations

    United Nations [UN] Peacekeeping Operations, 2000
    Report of working party on the reform of UN peacekeeping operations in light of experience in Kosovo, Rwanda and SomaliaRecommendations include: Doctrine and strategy: The Panel calls for more effective conflict prevention strategies.
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    On the (im-)possible inclusion of humanitarian assistance into peacebuilding efforts.

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 2001
    Focuses on the feasibility of including humanitarian action into peacebuilding strategies by taking a closer look at the reality of humanitarian organisations.Based upon the concept of peacebuilding, it discussed three sets of prerequisites for successfully combining humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts the compatibility of the objectives pursued in humanitarianism and peacebuilding
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    Aiding peace and war: UNHCR, returnee reintegration, and the relief-development debate

    Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 1999
    Looks at UNHCR’s evolving policy with regard to reintegration of refugees in the context of wider debates on relief-development aid linkages, and of broader changes in international relations in the post-Cold War era.
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    Forced migration and the evolving humanitarian regime

    Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001
    Paper begins by exploring in the nature of forced migration, describing the various categories of migrants and the manner in which they overlap and share common characteristics and needs.The paper then goes on to outline briefly the existing international regime, with particular focus on the institutional missions and mandates of the principal international organizations responsible for assist

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