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Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security, Education, Globalisation

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  Dev-Zone

  This resources aims to inform and educate New Zealanders about international development and global issues.
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  The equality predicament: report on the world social situation 2005

  UN, 2005

  This report traces the trends and patterns in economic and non-economic aspects of inequality and examines their causes and consequences across and within regions and countries.
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  New ignorances, new literacies: learning to live together in a globalizing world

  UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2005

  This document is the outcome of the global forum dialogue organised by UNESCO on "New Ignorances, New Literacies: Learning to Live Together in a Globalizing World" held in Barcelona in September 2004.The Forum offered a wide range of conferences, workshops, performances and exhibitions, focusing on the three key themes of cultural diversity, sustainable development and the conditions for peace.
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  Building citizenship and life skills

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  This brief article asks whether enough is being done to help displaced people to acquire the life and survival skills to enable a future based on reconciliation, human rights and democratic governance, and discusses how to integrate life skills into education.The author argues that all emergency-affected children must be educated in conflict resolution, tolerance, human rights and citizenship a
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  Barriers and bridges: access to education for internally displaced children

  Brookings Institution, 2005

  This paper looks at the barriers internally displaced children face in accessing education. It states that often education is treated as a secondary need, to be addressed only once conflicts have subsided.
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  Education in emergencies: learning for a peaceful future

  Forced Migration Review, 2005

  Forced Migration Review focuses on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.
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  World Youth Report 2005

  United Nations [UN] Programme on Youth, 2005

  This report presents an overview of the global situation of young people.The report highlights the following issues: the impact of globalisation on young women and men; the use of and access to ICTs; the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people; the active involvement of young people in armed conflict, both as victims and as perpetrators; and the increased importance of addressing intergenerational
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  Global survey on education in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2004

  This report presents information gathered by the Global Survey on Education in Emergencies (Global Survey). It attempts to fill a gap in information about how many refugee, displaced and returnee children and youth globally have access to education and the nature of the education they receive.The report consists of three parts.
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  Engendering development

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Draft Policy Research Report examines the conceptual and empirical links between gender, public policy, and development outcomes and demonstrates the value of applying a gender perspective to the design of development policies.The evidence presented shows that societies that discriminate by gender pay a high price in terms of their ability to develop and to reduce poverty.