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Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence

Author:  Moser, Caroline O. N. and Fiona C. Clark (eds.) Publisher:  London: Ze ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:50

Health Care for Refugees and Displaced People

Author:  Mears, Catherine and Sue Chowdhury Issue:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:34

Poverty reduction and Violence against Women: exploring links, assessing impact

In 1993, the international community acknowledged for the first time that violence against women (VAW) is a human rights issue, while VAW is also increasingly recognised both as a global public health issue and a barrier to sustainable development. Howeve ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00

Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations b ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Violence, fear, and development in Latin America: a critical overview

This introduction presents the core concepts that shape this special issue on the impact of violence and the processes of development in Central and South America. The understanding of development is considered in terms broader than the economic context a ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

Author:  Sen, Amartya Publisher:  London: Allen Lane, 2007, ISBN: 0713999381, 2 ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-05 18:51

Readers from Development in Practice

Author:  Kothari, Rajni Issue:  Volume 10, Numb ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:07

Disaster Management and Civil Society: Earthquake Relief in Japan, Turkey and India

Author:  Özerdem, Alpaslan and Jacoby, Tim Publisher:  International Library o ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:57

Towards more effective peace building: a conversation with Roland Paris

Since the early 1990s, the international community has become increasingly involved in efforts to (re-)build states that have been torn by war and violent conflict. Today, the United Nations alone is engaged in more than ten political and peace-building m ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52

Reconstruction in El Salvador: the social relations of community self-build

When the civil war in El Salvador ended in 1992, the Spanish government put forward money for a resettlement project (the ASPA project) which was designed and implemented by a Northern NGO for which the author worked as a construction adviser. The project ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57