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- Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence
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Author: Moser, Caroline O. N. and Fiona C. Clark (eds.) Publisher: London: Ze ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:50
- Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Co-operation
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Author: Rothchild, Donald Issue: Volume 8, N ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:25
- Refugee Women
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Author: Forbes Martin, Susan Issue: Volume 3 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 13:50
- Institutional change: the unanticipated consequences of action
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This article argues that the managerial approaches to development need to be reconstituted through a more comprehensive understanding of how institutional and behavioural change processes occur. Drawing from a case study in Nepal, and by exploring the l ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:51
- Rethinking orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia
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‘Orphans’ became a category of vulnerable children deserving special protection in the context of the global AIDS epidemic, and currently the notion of ‘orphans and vulnerable children’ (OVC), dominates much of the policy for pro ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 16:03
- Engaging with cultural practices in ways that benefit women in northern Nigeria
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This study explores the intra-household impact of improved dual-purpose cowpea (IDPC) from a gender perspective, in terms of productivity and food, fodder, and income availability, the impact of which is linked to the income thus placed in the women's han ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:35
- Population control in the new world order
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Population-control programmes can violate basic human rights and be a form of violence against women. The author presents her views on family planning as a form of social control arising from a neo-Malthusian world view which blames poverty and environmen ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Household coping strategies in Kyrgyzstan
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The author considers the coping strategies used by the newly poor households of the now-independent nation-state Kyrgyzstan. Like other former members of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has fared badly economically since the disintegration of both the Union ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Soup kitchens, women and social policy: studies from Peru
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In 1996 the Peruvian NGOs ALTERNATIVA, FOVIDA and INCAFAM spoke to many soup kitchen members, all women, to establish how they felt about the work and the future of the kitchens. The author reports on the connected activities sometimes run by these organi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Gender, development, and training: raising awareness in the planning process
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Several decades of development experience have yielded a wealth of findings about the key assumptions, procedures, and practices by which women have been marginalised in development planning. The value of these insights lies not only in highlighting flawe ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
