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- Living or surviving: reflections on Central America
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As the wars in Central America have subsided, the region is undergoing extensive and far-reaching changes in its economies, and in the role of the State, in particular in the growth of the maquila (assembly plant) industry, and the reduction of the public ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Peacebuilding does not build peace
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The concept of peacebuilding is a buzzword of the development policy and practice mainstream. The recent introduction of managerial tools and the focus on measuring the ‘effectiveness’ of peacebuilding have marginalised and depoliticised critical question ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
- Warwick Conference on Humanitarianism
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This article reports on the Warwick Conference on Humanitarianism, where practitioners and academics shared their experiences of the problems and limitations of humanitarianism, and how they dealt with them. ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 16:23
- Arms sales and development: making the critical connection
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This Research Round-up summarises the findings of the 2004 Control Arms Report: Guns or Growth? Assessing the Impact of Arms Sales on Sustainable Development, published by Amnesty International, IANSA, and Oxfam International, in association with Ploughsh ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50
- Children, conflict and displacement
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It is increasingly being recognised that many survivors of trauma are not best helped by psychological intervention based on the common Western patient/analyst relationship. Radda Barnen commissioned research into a variety of approaches to working with c ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Drawing Development: Analysing local understandings of development in three Andean communities
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This article shows how local understandings of development can be researched empirically by reference to experiences presented from three drawing workshops performed with children in the Ayacucho region in the Peruvian Andes. The children were asked to dr ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:09
- Memory, suffering, survival tactics, and healing among Jopadhola women in post-war Uganda
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This ethnographic case study addresses the question of how women in Jopadhola patriarchal society in Eastern Uganda remember three decades of civil war and violence and survived its aftermath. When the war ended, little changed for these women, who are ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:34
- Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future
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The author gives a personal view of her experiences in Guatemala in 1995, when she met with human-rights workers coping with the aftermath, and ongoing trauma, of the 36-year war. She describes the fear and disruption brought about by so many years of mil ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Introduction: War and peace: what do women contribute?
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Author: Afshar, Haleh Page: 10 ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 10:00
- Who really protects civilians?
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One could be forgiven for concluding from the current debate that the ‘protection of civilians’ is something ‘done to’ the passive recipients of international largesse. Whether the macro-level interventions of the UN Security Council or micro-level attemp ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
