Humanitarian Exchange 20: Silent Emergencies

Publication language
English
Pages
48pp
Date published
01 Mar 2002
Type
Articles
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Development & humanitarian aid, Forced displacement and migration
Countries
Afghanistan, Kosovo, Russian Fed. - Chechnya, Uganda
Organisations
ODI
Silent emergencies
Giving voice to silent emergencies 2
The Casamance conflict: out of sight, out of mind? 5
The humanitarian impact of neglect: Uganda’s emergencies 7
Shabunda: the ‘forgotten Kosovo’ 9
Russia, Chechnya and the international community 11
Manipulating crisis in North Korea 13
India’s volatile north-east 15
 
Practice notes
Aid responses to Afghanistan 17
Lessons for post-Taliban Afghanistan 19
Kosovo and ‘humanitarian’ relief 21
Humanitarian action and private security 24
Mainstreaming disaster mitigation 26
 
Institutional initiatives
Benefits–harms analysis: a rights-based tool 29
The refugee experience: a resource for aid practitioners 31
Reproductive health and displacement 33
Supporting livelihoods in conflict 35
 
Policy developments
Germany’s humanitarian system 36
Ensuring quality: Medair and ISO 9001 38
CARE’s rights-based response to conflict 40
 
Endpiece
The challenges to humanitarian action 42