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From humanitarian and post-conflict assistance to health system strengthening in fragile states: Clarifying the transition and the role of NGOs
Health Systems 20/20, 2008This policy brief focuses on the transition from emergency assistance and relief to strengthening the health system for the long term, and the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and how they can help fragile states to rehabilitate their health systems. There is general agreement on the broad features of state fragility, but as a category it contains significant variation.DocumentCourting catastrophe? Humanitarian policy and practice in a changing climate
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017Humanitarian crises appear dramatic, overwhelming and sudden, with aid required immediately to save lives. Whereas climate change is about changing hazard patterns and crises are in reality rarely unexpected, with academic researchers and humanitarian and development organisations warning about possible risks for months before they take place.DocumentShock-responsive social protection systems research. Case study: Pakistan
Oxford Policy Management, 2017This is one 6 case studies that form the core of the research team’s analysis of the features of a social protection system that facilitate its use in response to shocks, and of the ways in which social protection, humanitarian assistance and disaster risk management systems can best work together for a more effective response.DocumentAfghanistan’s cross-border trade with Pakistan and Iran and the responsibility for conflict-sensitive employment
Bonn International Center for Conversion, 2017Border areas are sites of intensive interaction between states and inter-regional business. Political tensions and armed conflicts have a particularlystrong impact on trade flows.DocumentIPCS Forecast 2016: cardinal transitions, red herrings, shrinking spaces
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2016The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) Forecast 2016 is a collection of writings on the near-term trajectories of a wide range of geographic and thematic issues covering Asia, the United States and Nuclear power and energy, authored by analysts and scholars from the Indian strategic community and beyond.DocumentThe role of social protection programmes in supporting education in conflict-affected situations
UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2010This background paper examines the role of social protection programmes in supporting education in conflict-affected contexts.DocumentPakistan in China’s eyes: pawn, pivot or a pointer to its world view?
Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015China’s engagement with Pakistan serves as a pointer to the way Beijing is likely to deal with the rest of the world as it redefines its pivotal global position. This policy briefing makes a series of observations about the relationship between the two counrties.DocumentStrengthening rule of law responses to counter violent extremism: what role for civil society in South Asia?
Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015Violence and extremism in South Asia, including potential threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), remain a concern for many regional and international observers. Three South Asian countries—Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India—are among those with the highest reported incidents of terrorism.DocumentUnderstanding Jihadism in Pakistan
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011It is easy to dismiss Pakistan as a 'failing state'. Indeed, Pakistan today is a strange, shadowy world where disorder is rapidly gaining ground.DocumentNationalism in Pakistan: dimensions of failure
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011Pakistan has for long been grappling with several fundamental problems without any visible signs of overcoming them. Its economic, social and political indicators are amongst the lowest in the world. In its conflictsPages