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Humanitarian Assistance

Early Warning Early Action in East Africa: Mechanisms for Rapid Decision Making

2014 | International Committee of the Red Cross, World Food Programme, Oxfam, Food and Agriculture Organization, Save the Children
International Committee of the Red Cross, World Food Programme, Oxfam, Food and Agriculture Organization, Save the Children

The crisis in the Horn of Africa and the declaration of famine conditions in parts of Somalia in 2011 provided renewed impetus to break, once…

Globalization, Social Movements, and Peacebuilding

2013 | Syracuse University Press
Jackie Smith & Ernesto Verdeja

Each year, governments spend billions of dollars on peacekeeping efforts around the world, and much more is spent on humanitarian aid to refugees and other…

The Long Road Home: Opportunities and Obstacles to the Reintegration of IDPs and Refugees Returning to Southern Sudan and the Three Areas

2007 | Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG)
Sara Pantuliano, Margie Buchanan-Smith & Paul Murphy

This in-depth study on the reintegration of internally displaced people (IDPs) returning to Southern Sudan and the Three Areas in the wake of the signing…

Land Rights and Mine Action in Myanmar

2014 | Displacement Solutions

As Myanmar continues on its path of political and economic reforms and its pursuit of ceasefire and peace agreements between the government and ethnic groups,…

Landmines and Land Rights in Conflict Affected Contexts

2010 | GICHD

This policy brief describes the important linkages between land rights and landmines in conflict-affected contexts. Its purpose is to deepen awareness within the broader mine…

Water and War: ICRC Response

2009 | International Committee of the Red Cross
Robert Mardini

In 2008, close to 15 million people in more than 40 war-affected countries benefited from ICRC water and habitat programmes, with more than 400 engineers and…

Whose Development? Human Rights Abuses in Sierra Leone's Mining Boom

2014 | Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch

This report focuses on the human rights impact of the mining activity of African Minerals Limited in Sierra Leone. It examines not only why the…

Truce or Transition? Trends in Human Rights Abuse and Local Response in Southeast Myanmar Since the 2012 Ceasefire

2014 | Karen Human Rights Group

Human rights conditions have been transformed on the ground in rural Southeast Myanmar since the signing of a preliminary ceasefire agreement between the Myanmar government…

U.S. Bilateral Assistance to Liberia: Forestry as the Cornerstone to Peacebuilding

2011 | Sandra S. Nichols and Lisa Goldman

In international peacebuilding circles, the post-conflict natural resource reforms that have taken place since Liberia’s fourteen-year civil war ended in 2003 are commonly heralded as…

Post-conflict Assistance to Timor-Leste for Reforestation and Community Recovery

2011 | Naori Miyazawa

The chapter examines the United Nations–supported Ainaro and Manatuto Community Activation Project (AMCAP), a two-phase reforestation and community recovery project in post conflict Timor-Leste. AMCAP…

Linking Environment and Conflict Prevention

2008 | Simon A. Mason, Adrian Muller, Albrecht Schnabel, Rina Alluri, Christian Schmid

This report examines the links between environment and violent conflict and explores the role of the UN in preventing conflicts related to environmental factors. The…

The Sahel Crisis

2014 | Food and Agriculture Organization

Despite good and average harvests in 2012 and 2013, persistent high levels of food and nutrition insecurity reflect the chronic challenges faced by vulnerable populations…

After War, Launching Liberia’s Future

2014 | USAID

LAUNCH is working to empower tens of thousands of Liberia’s most vulnerable to lift themselves out of poverty. A USAID Food for Peace program, LAUNCH,…

Myanmar: Act Immediately to Protect Displaced People's Rights

2014 | Michel Gabaudan and Melanie Teff, Refugees International

As Myanmar continues its renewed engagement with the international community, it must begin to address the serious violations of the rights of ethnic minorities that…

Local-Level Agreements in Darfur

2014 | UNEP

This report looks beyond international driven peacebuilding initiatives to the locally owned bottom-up efforts and building peace in Darfur. The report was researched in Darfur…

Jumpstarting Post-conflict Strategic Water Resources Protection from a Changing Global Perspective: Gaps and Prospects in Afghanistan

2013 | H. Habib, A.J. Anceno, J. Fiddes, J. Beekma , M. Ilyuschenko, V. Nitivattananon, O.V. Shipin (ScienceDirect)

Notwithstanding ambiguities, long-term economic resurgence in Afghanistan amidst water insecurity exacerbated by climate change decisively requires a water protection strategy that will complement a multitude…