Interacting with armed groups is challenging and comes with significant dilemmas and risks for mediators. As primary actors in today's conflicts, non-state armed groups are also essential...
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Meeting report: Oslo forum 2010 Annual Mediators' Retreat
Executive summary The Oslo forum 2010 was held just outside Oslo, Norway from the 15th-17th June. Some 90 participants gathered to exchange experiences and to reflect critically on the practice of...
Sudan: Darfur hijack plans to be shared with UN humanitarian agencies
Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, 2 October 2009 -The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of Darfur's largest rebel movements, agreed to share their plans on dealing with the hijacking of humanitarian...
HD Centre rapport annuel 2008
Le but de l'existence du HD Centre est de lancer et de faire avancer des processus de paix par le biais de la médiation. Notre conviction est que la paix n'attend pas d'arriver, mais qu'il est...
HD Centre Annual Report 2008
The HD Centre exists to enable and further peace processes through mediation. It is our conviction that peace is not simply waiting to be had, but that there is a need to actively bring about peace...
Negotiating Disarmament: Addressing Explosive Ordnance in Peace Processes
All modern armed conflicts result in explosive ordnance contamination. Before and after the cessation of hostilities, the presence of unexploded and abandoned explosive ordnance-landmines, cluster...
Annual Report 2007
In the development of an organisation, there are pivotal moments that help to de.ne what the organisation ultimately becomes. In this regard, 2007 has been a milestone year in the evolution of the...
The Skeleton in the Closet: Survivors of Armed Violence
This Policy Brief was presented at the First Review Conference on the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons...
Hitting the Target: Men and Guns
This Policy Brief was presented at the Review Conference on the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All...
"No Relief": Surveying the effects of gun violence on humanitarian and development personnel
What is the impact of weapons availability and misuse on the work of relief and development agencies? Are attacks on workers on the rise, as is commonly assumed? Where do the gravest dangers lie -...
Aucun Répit pour les Humanitaires : Etude de l'Incidence de la Violence Armée sur le Personnel Chargé de l'Aide Humanitaire et du Développement
Les membres des organisations humanitaires et de développement sont de plus en plus souvent confrontés à des actes de violence ou d'intimidation délibérés, et à des évacuations. Entre les mois de...
No Relief: Surveying the effects of gun violence on humanitarian and development personnel
What is the impact of weapons availability and misuse on the work of relief and development agencies? Are attacks on workers on the rise, as is commonly assumed? Where do the gravest dangers lie -...
How We Look: Hostile Perceptions of Humanitarian Action
Humanitarians have become very concerned about how they look. This is with good reason. The UN and other humanitarian agencies have suffered unprecedented loss of life in recent years among their...
The Church, Military Forces and Humanitarian Identity in War
It is important to discuss the relations between humanitarian professionals and military people because the great question in this relationship for humanitarians turns upon a very legitimate anxiety...
HDC denounces burning of monitor office, urges two parties to work for peace
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, April 6 -- This morning, the office of the Joint Security Committee (JSC) Tri-Partite Monitors (TMT) in Langsa, East Aceh was destroyed by a fire that appears to have been...
The interaction between political and humanitarian action in Sierra Leone, 1995 to 2002
Geneva, March 2003 Toby Porter Contents Acknowledgements Summary of findings Introduction 1. The RC/HC model, January 1995 to May 1997 1.1 Context 1.2 Commentary 1.3 Humanitarian action 1.4 Funding...