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Research Archive
Recovering to Conflict? The Impact of Tsunami Recovery Efforts on Conflict in Aceh and Sri Lanka
Following the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, speculations arose in policy circles as to how this would influence the ongoing conflicts in Sri Lanka and Aceh. Both conflicts had seen decades of violent fighting between separatist rebel groups and government forces with thousands of casualties on all sides.
Cluster Approach Evaluation [Final]
Submitted by a joint research team: Dr. Abby Stoddard, Center on International Cooperation Adele Harmer, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI Katherine Haver, Center on International Cooperation Dr. Dirk Salomons, The Praxis Group, Ltd. and Columbia University Victoria Wheeler, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODIOn the far side of conflict: the UN Peacebuilding Commission as an optical illusion [Forthcoming]
On 24 October 2005, sixty years after its creation, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a voluminous resolution, A/RES/60/1, reflecting the outcome of a lengthy process that culminated in a World Summit meant to bring the United Nations into the twenty-first century. One of the main features of this resolution was the establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission “as an intergovernmental advisory body.”
The Media Impact Revisited: A Case Study of Global and Chinese Media Coverage of Darfur
In recent years, the Middle Kingdom has indeed been placed in the middle of a heated and global debate on the international community’s involvement in complex emergencies. More specifically, global media outlets (as well as celebrities, athletes, and international organizations) have often cited the People’s Republic of China’s growing involvement in the domestic affairs of African nations and its simultaneous refusal to intervene in the complex emergency that has developed in the Darfur region of Sudan.“Turning Promise into Practice:” The Challenges of & Next Steps for Implementing the Responsibility to Protect
After many failed attempts to protect civilians from mass atrocities, in September 2005 the international community, through the United Nations, endorsed a new norm called the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) which commits the international community to protect populations from genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Three years later, much remains to be done to make R2P a reality.
