Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Aid and debt, Conflict and security, Governance

Showing 91-100 of 116 results

Pages

  • Document

    Enhancing local capacity to manage conflicts: Malian women take centre stage

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Have we neglected the gender dimensions of conflict over natural resources (NR)? Are women’s capacities to analyse and resolve NR disputes sufficiently recognised? Can women’s rights to participate in NR management be affirmed in a way that is not confrontational? How could women be integrated into peace-making and reconciliation initiatives?
  • Document

    Financing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations

    World Bank, 2003
    This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.
  • Document

    Peace, security and democracy in Africa?: a summary of outcomes from the 2002 OAU/AU summits in Durban

    Institute for Security Studies, 2002
    This paper summarises the most important developments and outcomes following the recent meetings of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union (AU) in Durban, focussing on the transition to the new institutions of the AU, particularly as they relate to peace, security and democracy issues.
  • Document

    Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

    Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002
    This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.
  • Document

    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
  • Document

    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.
  • Document

    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
  • Document

    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.
  • Document

    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.
  • Document

    Reconstruction from war in Africa: communities, entrepreneurs, and states

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This article looks at the move from conflict to reconstruction and then onto sustainable development, within an African context.It finds that:aid donors, NGOs, and international business can do much to help or hinder this processunless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth will be poverty reducingcommunities cannot prosper unless

Pages