I. Introduction

The following guidance note describes the requirements and steps in undertaking post-disaster food security assessment. The guidance note on damage, loss and needs assessment intended for recovery and reconstruction is prepared separately.

II. Purpose of This Guidance Note

This second colloquium organised jointly by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) aimed to present the causes and humanitarian consequences of urban violence, as well as related trends and challenges for the European Union and humanitarian actors. Two case studies have been selected, focusing on different types of violence affecting urban environments.

Conference report, Monday 12 - Wednesday 14 December 2011 (WP1125)

Key points discussed

Conflict is inherent in all societies and arises when two or more groups believe their interests are incompatible. ‘Conflict’ is not, however, interchangeable with ‘violence’. Non-violent resolution is possible when individuals and groups have trust in their governing structures, society and institutions to manage incompatible interests. Conflict becomes a problem when this trust and respective conflict management capacities are absent and conflicting parties choose instead to resort to the use of force to secure their goals.

Food problem tops the list of issues facing most countriesspecially developing ones. Successive food crises motivated concerned parties to examine causes of such crises & establish systems which help forecast any future crises to evade or mitigate their occurrence.

Within Norwegian defence and foreign policy, the establishment of an international legal order and the global rule of law have been identified as key objectives. As articulated in various Norwegian policy documents and statements, these objectives appear to presume (i) that there exists a harmonious and complementary relationship between human rights and humanitarian law, and (ii) that the convergence of the two bodies of law is necessarily a good thing.

Abstract: We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two waves of survey data from Afrobarometer 2000 and 2008, including information on socioeconomic characteristics at the individual level, and geo-referenced measures of fighting events from ACLED.

Le rapport ci-après s’appuie sur les chiffres fournis par les agences chargées de l’exécution des projets d’hébergement d’urgence et de logement en réponse à une requête formulée conjointement à la mi-décembre 2011 par le Groupe Sectoriel Abris d’urgence, Coordination et Gestion des camps/Logement Quartiers (OIM) et le Groupe de travail Logement Quartiers (groupe facilité par ONU-Habitat dans le cadre du Groupe sectoriel Relèvement Immédiat).

Leçons à retenir pour la prochaine grande catastrophe soudaine

Haïti a été frappé par un grand nombre de catastrophes naturelles soudaines au cours des dix dernières années, la dernière en date et la plus dévastatrice étant le séisme du 12 janvier 2010. C’est aussi l’une des nombreuses urgences soudaines qui ont mobilisé la communauté internationale à l’échelle mondiale.