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An Ounce of Prevention: G8 policy failures on conflict (pdf)

World Vision, 2004. A new World Vision report shows the accumulated debt of 16 of the world's worst war-torn countries could be wiped away for less than planned debt relief for one country: Iraq. The collective failure of international institutions - in particular G8 countries - to take conflict prevention seriously has contributed to the deaths of 14 million people and the displacement of 19 million people over the last four decades in 16 selected countries.

http://www.justice-and-peace.org/PolicyAdvocacy/pahome2.5.nsf/allArticlesHome/7A3B91803DF96B5B88256EA60053D5C7?OpenDocument

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Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP)

Regional NGO that provides a forum for dialogue on security issues in the Asia Pacific region, has institutional membership.

http://www.cscap.org/

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CrisisWatch

(CrisisWeb) CrisisWatch is a 12-page monthly bulletin designed to provide busy readers in the policy community, media, business and interested general public with a succinct regular update on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world. The CrisisWatch database allows users to search current and all past editions of CrisisWatch by conflict/country or by keyword.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1200&l=1

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Ensuring progress in the prevention of violent conflict: Priorities for the Greek and Italian EU Pre

The report aims to highlight practical steps that the European Union (EU) could take during the Greek and Italian Presidencies in 2003 to better implement and monitor the progress of the commitments made on conflict prevention. The report is designed to provide support to the Presidencies, to Member States, the Commission, the Council, parliamentarians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in furthering the role of the EU in preventing violent conflict. It outlines five key issues for EU member states and the Commission to address to enhance the EU's capacity to prevent violent conflict: - Mainstreaming conflict prevention policy and practice within European Community policy - Strengthening EU-Africa engagement in conflict prevention - Integrating crisis management with conflict prevention - Tackling terrorism, organised crime and illicit trafficking - Enhancing co-ordination across EU institutions (International Alert, May 2003)

http://www.international-alert.org/pdfs/EU_Impact.pdf

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European Centre for Conflict Prevention

The European Centre for Conflict Prevention, or the ECCP, is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies, and actively supports and connects people working for peace worldwide. We aim to make this website an easy source of information on our organisation, and on publications and events in and around the conflict prevention and peacebuilding community. We welcome your input, for example, to our calendar and Newsletters, and hope that you will explore the networks we are part of.

http://www.conflict-prevention.net/

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Frank Cass Publishers - International Peacekeeping

Web-site of the International Peacekeeping journal. Contains contents and abstracts, as well as submission and subscription details. Examines the theory and practice of peacekeeping.

http://www.frankcass.com/jnls/ip.htm

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Humanitarian Early Warning System

The IASC Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWSweb) is an inter-agency partnership project aimed at establishing a common platform for humanitarian early warnings and forecasts for natural hazards and socio-political developments worldwide. The main objective of HEWSweb is to bring together and make accessible in a simple manner the most credible early warning information available at the global level from multiple specialized institutions.

http://www.hewsweb.org/

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International Alert

"To address the root causes of violence and contribute to the just and peaceful transformation of violent internal conflict." International Alert is a non-governmental organisation based in the UK. The organisation was set up in 1985 by human rights advocates including Martin Ennals, former Secretary General of Amnesty International. A committed defender of human rights, Martin Ennals was the founding Secretary General of International Alert. Great Lakes Region of Africa, West Africa, the Caucasus region of the Former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka and Columbia.

http://www.international-alert.org

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International Crisis Group's Early Warning Resources

Early warning is a critical part of conflict prevention and management, and a core element of Crisis Group's mission. Crisis Group analysts produce regular analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international decision-takers. Our goal is to warn governments, international organisations and the world community at large about impending deadly conflict and help them prevent or at least contain it - and, if and when prevention fails, try to resolve the conflict.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=3397&l=1

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International Crisis Group: Annual Report 2007

The International Crisis Group's Annual Report 2007 reviews their activities in 2006 and maps out their plans for 2007. It provides an overview of all their projects across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The report contains useful reference material, including highlights of Crisis Group's reporting and advocacy efforts and their impact; information on how Crisis Group goes about its work (Crisis Group's Mission and Method), a world map marking all Crisis Group's projects, a list of the reports and briefing papers published by Crisis Group in 2006, and lists of our high-profile Board of Trustees, the Crisis Group's staff as well as their contributors (International Crisis Group, 2007).

http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/miscellaneous_docs/crisis_group_2007_annual_report_web.pdf

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International Humanitarian Assistance in Conflict Situation

Speech given by Poul Nielson, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, 5 September 2003. "In my speech today I will talk about "international humanitarian assistance in conflict situations". This is not an easy subject since conflicts are abundant and humanitarian aid is scarce."

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5F6LTA?OpenDocument

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Nairobi Peace Initiative Africa (NPI Africa)

Nairobi Peace Initiative Africa (NPI Africa) holds an annual training for NGOs and Faith Based Organizations on issues such as conflict analysis, conflict transformation, peacebuilding skills, and peace and reconciliation after protracted violence, with an emphasis on Africa.

http://www.npi-africa.org

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Privatisation of Security and Military Functions and the Demise of the Modern Nation-State in Africa

This report considers the privatisation of security (private military companies) and its effects on state authority; how this reinforces or challenges the notion of the state monopoly over all forms of organised violence. The paper argues that military functions should not be delegated to private agents because empowering private sources of authority to perform critical national security and military tasks forever compromises state power and sovereignty. It also commodifies security as a public good, structurally altering and removing it from the public domain of accountability, legitimacy, and control. (Michelle Small, ACCORD, 2006)

http://www.accord.org.za/op/occasional_paper_2_2006.pdf

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Saferworld

Saferworld is an independent foreign affairs think tank working to identify, develop and publicise more effective approaches to preventing armed conflict. Saferworld has two research programmes: Arms and Security; Conflict Prevention.

http://www.saferworld.org.uk

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The European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation

A network of European non-governmental organisations involved in the prevention and/or resolution of violent conflicts in the international arena. The secretariat of the Platform is hosted by the European Centre for Conflict Prevention which is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

http://www.euconflict.org

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The International Association for Conflict Management

The International Association for Conflict Management was founded to encourage scholars and practitioners to develop and disseminate theory, research, and experience that is useful for understanding and improving conflict management in family, organizational, societal, and international settings.

http://www.iacm-conflict.org/

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World Bank, IMF and armed conflicts: Helping peace or creating the conditions for war?

2nd February 2004, Bretton Woods Project. Recent involvement in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq has put the World Bank and the IMF work post-conflict in the spotlight. While some believe multilateral finance is essential, others believe the Bank and the Fund are acting primarily as pawns of US diplomatic and economic interests. Which interests are being served by World Bank and IMF operations is just one of many questions raised by observers. Others include: * Are WB and IMF interventions, creating or recreating the conditions for war? What are the implications of various policy choices, as well as the pace and sequencing of reform in transition from conflict? * Are Bank and IMF frameworks and instruments conflict-sensitive? Should they integrate explicitely geostrategic factors in their analysis when allocating assistance and designing their interventions? * What are the limits to the Bank's role? Is the Bank the best-placed actor to facilitate and administer donor assistance in reconstruction? The jury is still out on these questions, which could have serious implications for the Bank's and the Fund's mandates and work methods.

http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/article.shtml?cmd[126]=x-126-35157

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