This report examines the role of the media and its potential in helping prevent and moderate social violence. For this purpose, it develops a typology of potential roles of the media, drawing on...
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State of the World's Refugees 1997: A Humanitarian Agenda
With mass population displacements becoming both an objective and a tactic of war, this book provides a topical and detailed examination of the problem of forced displacement, focusing on the...
Child Nutrition and Food Security during Armed Conflicts
This report considers the broad range of factors increasing children's vulnerability to malnutrition brought about by armed conflicts. Case studies examine the impact of armed conflict on food and...
Execution of Humanitarian Assistance Programmes through Implementing Partners
In the context of concerns regarding lack of proper reporting to Member States on the use of funds devoted to humanitarian assistance activities, this report examines the principles governing the...
Universal Food Security: Issues for the South
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Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report
This work discerns the major risk factors that increase the likelihood of mass violence. It examines what steps might be taken to counteract or avoid the risk factors, especially through changes in...
Gendered Battlefields: A Gendered Analysis of Peace and Conflict
Towards the Abyss? : The Political Economy of Emergency in Haiti
ABSTRACT Towards the Abyss? The Political Economy of Emergency in Haiti analyzes the various factors that have contributed to create a protracted humanitarian emergency situation in Haiti. The first...
Zaire after Mobutu : A Case of a Humanitarian Emergency
ABSTRACT The recent history of Zaire presents a unique opportunity to understand and explain humanitarian emergencies. This monograph follows an inductive approach in analysing the trajectory of...
Why Humanitarian Emergencies Occur : Insights from the Interface of State, Democracy and Civil Society
ABSTRACT This paper provides a beginning toward explaining why humanitarian emergencies have been so substantial in the post-cold war era, a period expected to be less violent. The humanitarian...
Five Years After Rio: UNU’s Responses to Agenda 21
The United Nations University (UNU) responded quickly to Agenda 21’s action call by developing a 10-year programme on environmentally sustainable development. UNU decided that its programme would...
State of World Population 1997: The Right to Choose - Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health
The 1997 annual report examines evidence on progress and problems in attaining and protecting sexual and reproductive rights in the context of the 1994 International Conference on Population and...
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Food Marketing Reconsidered : An Assessment of the Liberalization of Food Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa
ABSTRACT The liberalization of food marketing has been implemented as part of structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study we assess i) the aims of reform policy, ii) the...
Political Sources of Humanitarian Emergencies
ABSTRACT This diagnostic study explores the political conditions that are associated with humanitarian emergencies. It employs a risk rather than cause-effect methodology. Humanitarian emergencies...
Tutsis Could Trigger End of Colonial Borders
The material that follows has been provided by Panos By Ali A. Mazrui New York - The crisis in eastern Zaire, and between Zaire and its neighbours, poses the greatest challenge yet to the artificial...
Can World Aid Agencies Be Politically Neutral?
Judith Matloff, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KIGALI, RWANDA -- Central Africa's refugee crisis has sparked aid agencies to question their uncomfortable role on the front line of...
War and Humanitarian Action in Chechnya: Occasional Paper #26
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Towards a Crisis Prevention Plan for Central Africa
Background The present humanitarian drama in eastern Zaire and the urgent need to deliver humanitarian relief to vulnerable populations in the area have rightly if somewhat belatedly attracted the...
Humanitarian and Peace Operations: NGOs and the Military in the Interagency Process
Aiming to identify and examine aspects of command and control in contemporary military coalition operations, this report focuses on the issue of interagency and civilian-military coordination in...
Coping with Crisis: Coping With Aid Capacity Building, Coping Mechanisms and Dependency, Linking Relief and Development
This paper considers means of effectively strengthening UN Agencies' capacities to assist affected communities to cope with crisis. Examining relationships between coping mechanisms and capacity...