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16.4.03 Conflict in Congo has killed 4.7m, charity says. James Astill in Bukavu and Isabelle Chevallot, Tuesday April 8, 2003, The Guardian 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,931997,00.html
16.4.03 Unnatural disaster by Dominic Nutt - Guardian Unlimited, Thursday March 6, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,908637,00.html
8.4.03 David Alexander "A Feckless World: Warfare, Disasters and Democracy" April 2003 (download Word file: 40KB)
8.4.03 Nick Cater untangles the politics and logistics of choosing which aid agency to support. Guardian Unlimited, Tuesday April 1, 2003. "The smart donor's guide to aid for Iraq" http://society.guardian.co.uk/aidforiraq/story/0,12972,926588,00.html
21.3.03 New Page - Iraq/Second Gulf War
21.3.03 Notes on the Ideas of ‘Clean War’ and ‘Collateral Damage’ Ben Wisner, 17 March 2003 (download Word file (34KB)) 
6.2.03 10 Ways Women will be Affected By A War in Iraq. American Friends Service Committee/Women's Program www.afsc.org 
6.2.03 Paradoxical Constraints to Agricultural Intensification in Malawi: the interplay between labor, land and policy by William Moseley [also on Malawi page]
6.2.03 DE YUCATÁN AL DARIÉN GESTIÓN LOCAL DEL RIESGO EN EL ISTMO CENTROAMERICANO, Manuel Argüello-Rodríguez [also on Spanish page]
6.2.03 Do you want to be commanded and controlled? Reflections on modern emergency management by David Alexander
27.10.02 PARADOXICAL CONSTRAINTS TO AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION IN MALAWI: THE lNTERPLAY BETWEEN LABOR, LAND AND POLICY BY WILLIAM MOSELEY (download pdf)
22.9.02 AT RISK in Spanish is now available at full length on the La Red web site:
http://www.desenredando.org/public/libros/1996/vesped/index.html
22.9.02 Training Course: Structuralia - Curso de Gestion Integral de Riesgos y Desasters
http://www.structuralia.com/cdl1/cvdata/curso70/info/default.asp
22.9.02 Review of: Jeffrey Sachs and others, ‘Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development,’ Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, 20 December 2001. By Alex de Waal (download here)
22.9.02 The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) invites you to: The 9th International Forum on WOMEN'S RIGHTS and DEVELOPMENT: RE-INVENTING GLOBALIZATION October 3-6, 2002 Guadalajara, Mexico (Details downloaded from here). See web page for more details http://www.awid.org
22.9.02 AlertNet: People power needed to counter globalisation by Ben Wisner
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/508903?view=PrinterFriendly (Link also on the Sustainable Development and Politics page)
28.8.02 Please visit http://www.ecie.org/sismoatico/
You will find there a Virtual Congress with technical papers (some of them in English) related to the Peruvian Earthquake of June 2001. Alberto Delgado (Link also on the Radix Spanish Resources page)
28.8.02 'LIKE A BANANA TREE: Towards a Model of Children in Disasters: an Exploration of an Anthropological Problem' By Jennifer Anne Ricarda Marten. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor of Arts (Sociology and Anthropology) Honours at the Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences School of International, Cultural and Community Studies (Sociology / Anthropology) Edith Cowan University Perth, Western Australia. 21st December 2001 [Download Word file:198 kb]
26.8.02 Baked to death by Eric Klinenberg The Guardian Tuesday August 20, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,3605,777460,00.html
22.8.02 ReliefWeb: Southern Africa food deficit crisis update 2
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f3fdd6ede8ae1c8385256c1b006dc101?OpenDocument
(Malawi/Southern Africa)
22.8.02 ReliefWeb: Making markets work in Malawi. Reducing poverty and getting food to the people who need it
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/5a2212000a0ccf9dc1256c1c004abda0?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
22.8.02 ReliefWeb: US rejects concerns about biotech food aid for Africa, wants EU help
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/1dfaf44dbd6f4ad385256c1c0074a3e5?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
22.8.02 WE ARE ALL VULNERABLE by John Handmer www.gs.rmit.edu.au/research/risk.htm
22.8.02 Living with risk- A global review of disaster reduction initiatives. UN/ISDR Secretariat, Geneva: http://www.unisdr.org
8.8.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Top officials probed in relation to food crisis
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/9e89f5d3d9b9408b49256c0e000a705a?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
8.8.02 WHO and the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/3a84f7ca2b220d6cc1256c0d0035c1b0?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
8.8.02 AlertNet: Zimbabwe's food crisis: what went wrong? By Mercedes Sayagues
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/489432?version=1 (Malawi/Southern Africa)
8.8.02 ReliefWeb: Nutritional assessment survey of West Bank and Gaza
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/af8c1ae86678f6bac1256c050034287a?OpenDocument
25.7.02 New Resources Page! Toolbox
15.7.02 ReliefWeb: FEWS position paper: Is a famine developing in Southern Africa?
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d4acc662645852ea85256bfb004a349c?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.7.02 ReliefWeb: African crisis fuels debate over GM food By Ruth Gidley
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/e3d0cdde11633ac485256bfb00627576?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
7.02 Normal Life after Disasters? 8 years of housing lessons, from Marathwada to Gujarat: A response to K.S. Vatsa by Alex Salazar (Gujarat)
4.6.02 Malawi: Maize dominance worsens food crisis
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/e62f40e10e5b6a2549256bcf000f4208?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
5.6.02 Disease outbreaks reported: Plague in Malawi
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/48a8edf3a19fe79dc1256bcf0056c7cf?OpenDocument

(Malawi/Southern Africa)
no date Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule By Dr. Jane Kelsey
http://www.sustainable-city.org/articles/corprule.htm (Sustainable Development & Politics)
1.6.02 AlertNet: Government failure turned emergency into famine
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/451063
31.5.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Bubonic plague adds to woes
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/65c64abc437a44be49256bcd000b30cd?OpenDocument

(Malawi/Southern Africa)
4.6.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Women worst hit by hunger
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/5e11c4731e9bf07249256bce0009f419?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
4.6.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Hunger underlined by poverty
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/e059ad0135d305cd49256bcd000abf82?OpenDocument
4.6.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Bubonic plague adds to woes
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/65c64abc437a44be49256bcd000b30cd?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
2.6.02 ReliefWeb: Cruel nature not the only cause of Africa's hunger by Nicholas Kotch
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/d8ad703cd123932fc1256bc9003f453d?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
2.6.02 ReliefWeb: Special report: FAO/WFP crop and food supply assessment mission to Malawi
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/1FB447B1ED73BBA7C1256BC8002F11FA?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
2.6.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Huge number of women involved in anti-polio drive
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/28ec9b3e0b0eea9a49256bc8000e39d1?OpenDocument (Cultural and Social) (Afghanistan)
2.6.02 ReliefWeb: Zimbabwe: NGO accuses government supporters of abusing food aid
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f8b66cedba2e203c49256bc8001704ca?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
2.6.02 ReliefWeb: WHO to prevent possible cholera outbreak in Afghanistan
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/37c0f5d594a40265c1256bc60052077c?OpenDocument (Afghanistan)
25.5.02 The Communities Do Science! Proactive and Contextual Assessment of Capability and Vulnerability in the Face of Hazards. Chapter for Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Thea Hilhorst (eds), Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People, Earthscan, London, forthcoming 2003 by Ben Wisner (Download Word file - 99kb)
25.5.02 ReliefWeb: ARC: Women are key to Sierra Leone's future
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c19753e3d514a899c1256bc3003f0e86?OpenDocument (Violent Conflict) (Cultural and Social)
25.5.02 Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development: understanding the links between development,
environment and natural hazards leading to disasters. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (download Word file - 231kb) (Sustainable Development)
25.5.02 STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY RETROSPECTIVE: 1972-2002. UNEP Disasters. Download pdf (428kb) (Sustainable Development)
25.5.02 DFID on Southern Africa Crisis. By CLARE SHORT
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/b8608a704b47d41885256bc20067569e?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
25.5.02 ReliefWeb: Famine-struck SADC countries seek regional solutions to crisis
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/1e01535255cbd3a7c1256bc1005ab8aa?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
25.5.02 AlertNet: Malawi - Country Profile
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/countryprofiles/218317?version=1 (Malawi/Southern Africa)
25.5.02 AlertNet: DMI: Helping heal wounds after Gujarat violence
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/439517 (Violent Conflict)
25.5.02 ReliefWeb: Rebuilding agriculture to restore Afghanistan's economy. Afghan Deputy Minister of Agriculture Discusses Way Forward
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/ac9adae9a9b1702749256bc1000360bf?OpenDocument (Afghanistan)
25.5.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Drought plagues returning refugees
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/8e748a79c2c90ac749256bc10007ac24?OpenDocument (Afghanistan)
25.5.02 ReliefWeb: Southern Africa: Zimbabwe tops list of poor harvests
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/d8de98b8a1c324e685256bbf006335aa?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
25.5.02 ReliefWeb: FEWS Southern Africa Food Security Update: 17 May 2002. IS A REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY CRISIS LOOMING?
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/af18da78afb3fcef49256bbf0020e1cc?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.5.02 Afghanistan: Home care for patients with spinal cord injuries
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/e3d9540871ec92e149256bbc002a6469?OpenDocument (Violent Conflict and Afghanistan and Disability)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: A ray of hope from Colombia's badlands
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/b9ed0324b29ee0eec1256bbc00449f78?OpenDocument (Violent Conflict)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Three million in need of food aid
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/d5354c3c1377e3b485256bbc007517bc?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.5.02 International Famine Centre, University College Cork
http://www.ucc.ie/famine/
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: IMF aid threatened by government overspending
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/d6ee023a4337de3449256bbb000b9a13?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Malawi: Concluding statement of the IMF mission. Malawi-2002 Article IV Consultation May 14, 2002
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d7303b3af7c7293fc1256bbc002da93f?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Madagascar: political row stops aid from reaching flood victims
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/84a1fd4ebc7a347ec1256bbc0055c955?OpenDocument (Human Rights)
19.5.02 Disability and Disaster: Victimhood and Agency in Earthquake Risk Reduction by Ben Wisner  (download Word file 134kb)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Southern Africa - the threat of famine
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/e5c90fc9318627f749256bba00082f94?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa and Cultural/Social)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Southern Africa: Vulnerable elderly ignored
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/f20f417fb0bd44c249256bbb000c1e38?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa and Cultural/Social)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Southern Africa food insecurity disproportionately impacting women and children
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/b831dc884203057fc1256bbb004bd461?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: Feeding the cities in the Horn of Africa
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/83071b92bfb033a1c1256bba0031a742?OpenDocument (Malawi/Southern Africa)
19.5.02 ReliefWeb: IFC supports women artisans in India
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c6b372f3cc34b2e7c1256bba0033735c?OpenDocument (Gujarat)
15.5.02 ReliefWeb: Southern Africa food crisis deepens, aid gathers
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/cbfe55e9a776022cc1256bb900472eeb?OpenDocument
15.5.02 ReliefWeb: Palestine Red Crescent Society concerned about health conditions and risk of epidemic in remote villages
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f7ac07215f5491e085256bb9006524f4?OpenDocument
15.5.02 ReliefWeb: End of the war, beginning of hunger
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/0cde790c9cc8750685256bb900663886?OpenDocument
15.5.02 ReliefWeb: Angola 'grey zones' emergency - a dying population
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/408b1470753cb73e85256bb90065c054?OpenDocument
15.5.02 ReliefWeb: General Assembly, concluding special session on children, adopts outcome document - "A World Fit for Children"
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/3dfe9fbbcfef0ead85256bb8004b8a6a?OpenDocument
15.5.02 FAO combats major locust outbreak in Afghanistan
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f64ec27f7cc2fa43c1256bb500392bab?OpenDocument
15.5.02 ReliefWeb: Angola: Polio vaccination campaign complicated by war
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/8e94ae9ec5c9640949256bb9000fc438?OpenDocument
15.5.02 New Page: Malawi and Southern African food emergencies
12.5.02 International Crisis Group http://www.crisisweb.org/
12.5.02 Observer Worldview: Unseen wars
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/page/0,11916,713897,00.html
12.5.02 ReliefWeb: Half million Afghan returnees face urgent needs at home
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/b0946c52cb8e6cbf85256bb300618289?OpenDocument (Afghanistan)
12.5.02 We the Children: End-decade review of the follow-up to the World Summit for Children
Report of the Secretary-General
http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/documentation/documents/a-s-27-3e.pdf
12.5.02 UNICEF: Goals for Children and Development in the 1990s
http://www.unicef.org/wsc/goals.htm
12.5.02 UN Special Session on Children http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/
12.5.02 AlertNet: U.N. summit set to approve goals for children by Andrew Dobbie
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/433265
12.5.02 The State of the World's Children 2002. Unicef: http://www.unicef.org/sowc02/
7.5.02 ReliefWeb: WHO warns of disfiguring skin disease spreading in Afghanistan
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/dc006bfb8f4d19c8c1256bb1005bf519?OpenDocument
7.5.02 WHO health update Afghanistan 30 Apr 2002
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c13e6a22ab609614c1256bb1004916f4?OpenDocument
6.5.02 The Hurricane Mitch: Beyond Natural Catastrophe. Human Rights Commission 1999
http://www.cetim.ch/1999/99BC09W4.htm
6.5.02 ReliefWeb: Children's safety in Jenin
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/eb740b771412d6e1c1256bad005297bc?OpenDocument
6.5.02 ReliefWeb: Global: Women, children suffered most in war, NGO says
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/cdc572bd4d5d3a9b85256bad00649fe9?OpenDocument
6.5.02 A new page on Disability Issues
30.4.02 ReliefWeb: Unseen millions: The catastrophe of internal displacement in Colombia - children and adolescents at risk
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f28247c1b1cd2b38c1256ba50055a628?OpenDocument (and on Cultural and Social Issues page)
30.4.02 United Nations Chronicle: From the Secretary-General - ‘Remember this Girl’
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p4.html (and on Afghanistan page and Cultural and Social Issues page)
30.4.02 United Nations Chronicle: School Bells from Bombshells by Maha Muna
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p12.html (on Afghanistan page and Cultural and Social Issues page)
30.4.02 United Nations Chronicle: The Chronicle Essay: Food Trade and Food Rights by George Kent
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p27.html (and on Human Rights page)
30.4.02 AlertNet: Recovering Goma still faces economic battle by Mark Jones
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/427629 (and on Nyiragongo page)
30.4.02 ReliefWeb: Central Africa: Five million dead from violent conflict in last decade
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/927db5088ccf965c49256ba3001ad237?OpenDocument (and on Nyiragongo page)
21.4.02 New RADIX page on Violent Conflict and Disasters
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: WFP is making the transition from relief to development in Afghanistan
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d0364c788e359bc849256b9d00031775?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Polio pushed to lowest levels in history but Experts warn opportunity to stamp out disease must be grasped now due to unstable global situation
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/75d56b818eb42f8ac1256b9d0033f477?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Report on seminar - The road to recovery and the role of NGOs. A Seminar organized by Euronaid and VOICE. Brussels, 14 February 2002
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/4071df066d290a7585256b990058e64c?OpenDocument

(Knowing versus Doing)
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Emergency operation for electricity sector in West Bank
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/ff62c132b91e9248c1256b9c0051f414?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghan quake village obliterated: aid agency
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/429200F14E6AEA0CC1256B9C00328FEA?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: After granting UN access to Jenin camp, Israel blocks delivery of aid
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/98548b49fa04aa4e85256b9c006bd93b?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Convoy of humanitarian supplies reaches Israel-occupied West Bank
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/22501a83bbe0dad185256b9c0077e18d?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: ICRC: Humanitarian aid needed in Jenin like in "quake zone"
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d87a8462d957a27a85256b9c006b8782?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Malnourished children struggling to survive by James East - APRO Sub-Regional Communications Manager, South Asia
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/5276156a863fc0bb85256b9c0071aa5f?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Robinson says UN human rights mission to Middle East still reviewed by Israel
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f0310c8a8e32339185256b9c00714226?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: West Bank Humanitarian Task Force Bulletin No. 7. Relief Efforts in the West Bank, the occupied Palestinian territory. The first preliminary account of the humanitarian situation in Jenin camp - made by a UN/UNRWA team; 15 April 2002; 22:20
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/1bc8b75416f84b1b85256b9c00745a10?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: West Bank assault: Humanitarian crisis in refugee camps
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/138afd0c192e0d6e85256b9c00728ed4?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Locals rehabilitate roads and rivers in Kabul
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/865131866a4c832149256b95001d50b5?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: ICBL Landmine Update Apr 2002
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/53cd7f72525ae4c085256b980058fff3?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Northern Afghan villages hit by floods, in need of help by Hler Gudjonsson, Maimana, Faryab Province, Afghanistan
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/8c0411670339ca84c1256b970049dcd3?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 1
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f703a0af0f354ed485256b99005c4aef?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Secretary-General to Commission on Human Rights: Human rights must not be sacrificed to counter-terrorism
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/6b8774edd5ec8649c1256b990042c284?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Israel/Occupied Territories: Israeli military action is collective punishment
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/94c6bca14e72811685256b99007280c7?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Palestine Red Crescent paramedics under pressure by Sébastien Carliez, in Ramallah and Jerusalem
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/9d1315f5209148fb85256b98006d6610?OpenDocument
11.4.02 ReliefWeb: UN official appeals to Israel over children's fate
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c8127885ea6e0459c1256b98004e00b8?OpenDocument
11.4.02 Catastrophic conditions in Jenin camp as Israel makes mass arrests at training centre. Camp Residents in Nablus Area Asked to Leave Shelters, Large-Scale Israeli Military Operation under Way in Camp
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/5AB7C9974C2AB32CC1256B970050C2AC?OpenDocument
11.4.02 Soldiers in civvies alarm agencies in Afghanistan By Nick Cater
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/418114
10.4.02 Israeli forces block UN relief convoy headed for Jenin refugee camp http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/3db0d03098dc39bb85256b96005d6e74?OpenDocument
10.4.02 Health situation in West Bank "critical": Red Crescent http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/44d3537ca21434eec1256b95005b4442?OpenDocument
10.4.02 Israeli forces continue assault on Palestinian civilians, medical personnel and journalists http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/302b0b743f165b0a85256b9500647c0a?OpenDocument
8.4.02 ReliefWeb: Reproductive health during conflict and displacement - Report by Samantha Guy http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c8695afc13bc600d85256b92005d41e3?OpenDocument
8.4.02 Three new papers from the AAG for the WTC-9/11 section: Daanish Mustafa; Kenneth Hewitt; Ben Wisner (go to WTC7)
8.4.02 ReliefWeb: OPT: "End the horror in the camps" - UN http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/012b051174ba2b8749256b9500070030?OpenDocument
New section on Radix on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
2.4.02 "Environmental disaster feeds terrorism" By JUHA I. UITTO. Special to The Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?eo20020330a1.htm
30.4.02 ReliefWeb: Unseen millions: The catastrophe of internal displacement in Colombia - children and adolescents at risk
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f28247c1b1cd2b38c1256ba50055a628?OpenDocument (and on Cultural and Social Issues page)
30.4.02 United Nations Chronicle: From the Secretary-General - ‘Remember this Girl’
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p4.html (and on Afghanistan page and Cultural and Social Issues page)
30.4.02 United Nations Chronicle: School Bells from Bombshells by Maha Muna
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p12.html (on Afghanistan page and Cultural and Social Issues page)
30.4.02 United Nations Chronicle: The Chronicle Essay: Food Trade and Food Rights by George Kent
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p27.html (and on Human Rights page)
30.4.02 AlertNet: Recovering Goma still faces economic battle by Mark Jones
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/427629 (and on Nyiragongo page)
30.4.02 ReliefWeb: Central Africa: Five million dead from violent conflict in last decade
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/927db5088ccf965c49256ba3001ad237?OpenDocument (and on Nyiragongo page)
21.4.02 New RADIX page on Violent Conflict and Disasters
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: WFP is making the transition from relief to development in Afghanistan
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d0364c788e359bc849256b9d00031775?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Polio pushed to lowest levels in history but Experts warn opportunity to stamp out disease must be grasped now due to unstable global situation
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/75d56b818eb42f8ac1256b9d0033f477?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Report on seminar - The road to recovery and the role of NGOs. A Seminar organized by Euronaid and VOICE. Brussels, 14 February 2002
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/4071df066d290a7585256b990058e64c?OpenDocument

(Knowing versus Doing)
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Emergency operation for electricity sector in West Bank
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/ff62c132b91e9248c1256b9c0051f414?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghan quake village obliterated: aid agency
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/429200F14E6AEA0CC1256B9C00328FEA?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: After granting UN access to Jenin camp, Israel blocks delivery of aid
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/98548b49fa04aa4e85256b9c006bd93b?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Convoy of humanitarian supplies reaches Israel-occupied West Bank
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/22501a83bbe0dad185256b9c0077e18d?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: ICRC: Humanitarian aid needed in Jenin like in "quake zone"
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d87a8462d957a27a85256b9c006b8782?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Malnourished children struggling to survive by James East - APRO Sub-Regional Communications Manager, South Asia
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/5276156a863fc0bb85256b9c0071aa5f?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Robinson says UN human rights mission to Middle East still reviewed by Israel
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f0310c8a8e32339185256b9c00714226?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: West Bank Humanitarian Task Force Bulletin No. 7. Relief Efforts in the West Bank, the occupied Palestinian territory. The first preliminary account of the humanitarian situation in Jenin camp - made by a UN/UNRWA team; 15 April 2002; 22:20
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/1bc8b75416f84b1b85256b9c00745a10?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: West Bank assault: Humanitarian crisis in refugee camps
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/138afd0c192e0d6e85256b9c00728ed4?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan: Locals rehabilitate roads and rivers in Kabul
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/865131866a4c832149256b95001d50b5?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: ICBL Landmine Update Apr 2002
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/53cd7f72525ae4c085256b980058fff3?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Northern Afghan villages hit by floods, in need of help by Hler Gudjonsson, Maimana, Faryab Province, Afghanistan
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/8c0411670339ca84c1256b970049dcd3?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Afghanistan - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 1
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/f703a0af0f354ed485256b99005c4aef?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Secretary-General to Commission on Human Rights: Human rights must not be sacrificed to counter-terrorism
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/6b8774edd5ec8649c1256b990042c284?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Israel/Occupied Territories: Israeli military action is collective punishment
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/94c6bca14e72811685256b99007280c7?OpenDocument
16.4.02 ReliefWeb: Palestine Red Crescent paramedics under pressure by Sébastien Carliez, in Ramallah and Jerusalem
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/9d1315f5209148fb85256b98006d6610?OpenDocument
11.4.02 ReliefWeb: UN official appeals to Israel over children's fate
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c8127885ea6e0459c1256b98004e00b8?OpenDocument
11.4.02 Catastrophic conditions in Jenin camp as Israel makes mass arrests at training centre. Camp Residents in Nablus Area Asked to Leave Shelters, Large-Scale Israeli Military Operation under Way in Camp
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/5AB7C9974C2AB32CC1256B970050C2AC?OpenDocument
11.4.02 Soldiers in civvies alarm agencies in Afghanistan By Nick Cater
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/418114
10.4.02 Israeli forces block UN relief convoy headed for Jenin refugee camp http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/3db0d03098dc39bb85256b96005d6e74?OpenDocument
10.4.02 Health situation in West Bank "critical": Red Crescent http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/44d3537ca21434eec1256b95005b4442?OpenDocument
10.4.02 Israeli forces continue assault on Palestinian civilians, medical personnel and journalists http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/302b0b743f165b0a85256b9500647c0a?OpenDocument
8.4.02 ReliefWeb: Reproductive health during conflict and displacement - Report by Samantha Guy http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/c8695afc13bc600d85256b92005d41e3?OpenDocument
8.4.02 Three new papers from the AAG for the WTC-9/11 section: Daanish Mustafa; Kenneth Hewitt; Ben Wisner (go to WTC7)
8.4.02 ReliefWeb: OPT: "End the horror in the camps" - UN http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/012b051174ba2b8749256b9500070030?OpenDocument
New section on Radix on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
2.4.02 "Environmental disaster feeds terrorism" By JUHA I. UITTO. Special to The Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?eo20020330a1.htm
14.3.02 DR Congo: The Inter-Congolese Dialogue, an opportunity to put human rights on the agenda. News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/18ef6d1a9159a06b85256b7a006cd921?OpenDocument
14.3.02 'Small' Floods: a Hidden Problem by Ben Wisner
12.3.02 Time to give Afghan women their right to health. ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/cb9fbbcac333c634c1256b7a0061ec15?OpenDocument

Also on the Afghanistan page
7.3.02 Evaluating the implementation of UNHCR's Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women. ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/9ca65951ee22658ec125663300408599/d676752e490341f449256b75001004fc?OpenDocument
Also on the Cultural and Social Issues page
28.2.02 Second volcano menaces Congolese town of Goma
28.2.02 Exhibit of Afghan child refugee
26.2.02 Empowering women in Bangladesh By Hanna Schmuck, in Cox's Bazar. ReliefWeb
19.2.02 Philanthropy 'sans frontières' by Nick Cater Guardian Unlimited Wednesday February 13, 2002
19.2.02 Radix Afghanistan Page
19.2.02 A dossier on civilian victims of United States' aerial bombing of Afghanistan: a comprehensive accounting by Professor Marc W Herold http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm
19.2.02 Aid packages ignore starving Afghans by Suzanne Goldenberg in Siya Sang
Guardian Unlimited Monday February 4, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349166,00.html
5.2.02 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS. Disaster Management - Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Long-term Development, hosted by the Nirma Institute of Management, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. March 14-16, 2002, www.iocdm.com
5.2.02 REPORT: assessment of personal and community resilience - Buckle, Marsh and Smale (pdf)
5.2.02 Resilience and Vulnerability Guidelines - Buckle, Marsh and Smale (pdf)
5.2.02 The Guardian (UK) 30 January, John Vidal on the DEC Gujarat aid evaluation report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4345190,00.html
5.2.02 AlertNet - UNU social vulnerability project dissemination via videos: http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/384095
5.2.02 ReliefWeb: The ISO 9001 Quality Approach: Useful for the Humanitarian Aid Sector?
22.1.02 link to Clowns without borders - sends performances to refugee camps and zones of conflict. http://www.infinex.com/~yoowho/cwb.html
30.11.01 POST-EARTHQUAKE REHABILITATION IN GUJARAT - 9 MONTHS AFTER. A Field Assessment by, Rohit Jigyasu
30.11.01 Rhetoric and Reality of Post-disaster Rehabilitation after the Latur Earthquake of 1993: A Rejoinder by Krishna S. Vatsa (Rejoinder to Rohit Jigyasu's (above) and Alex Salazar's (below) papers)
30.11.01 Disasters, the World Bank and Participation: Relocation Housing after the 1993 Earthquake in Maharashtra, India By Alex Salazar (November 1998) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GUJARATDEVELOPMENT/message/64
30.11.01 HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISASTERS: Does a rights approach reduce vulnerability? by John Handmer
14.11.01 Floods and Mudslides in Algiers: Why No Warning? Why Poor Drainage? Why? by Dr. Ben Wisner
14.11.01 Lessons from Cuba? Hurricane Michele, November, 2001 by Ben Wisner
31.10.01 International Institute for Environment and Development: Insecurity on a Small Planet http://www.iied.org/sept11.html
20.10.01 What Else Is Happening? Thoughts One Month after the Events of 11 September by Ben Wisner (download Word file)
20.10.01 "US buys up all satellite war images" by Duncan Campbell, The Guardian (download Word file)
16.10.01 FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF LOWER MANHATTAN IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER, September 30, 2001 by James K. Mitchell et al (download file here)
12.10.01 Humanism and Terror: Scoping the Problem of Violence On Early 21st Century Planet Earth by
Ben Wisner
(also in World Trade Center)
12.10.01 A Note on Moral Conditioning by Ronen Shamir (also in World Trade Center)
7.10.01 David Alexander: From Principles of Emergency Planning and Management, by David Alexander, copyright 2002 by Terra Publishing, UK, and Oxford University Press, USA. Box 12: Terrorist Attacks on the United States, 11 September 2001
7.10.01 David Alexander: Nature's Impartiality, Man's Inhumanity: Reflections on Terrorism and World Crisis in a Context of Historical Disaster
7.10.01 James Mitchell: THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES FROM HAZARDS GEOGRAPHY download
29.9.01 VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS AND DISASTERS by Terry Cannon. Chapter in: D J Parker (ed.) Floods Routledge, 2000
25.9.01 The lessons of 11th September 2001. Ben Wisner
25.9.01 World Trade Center issues discussed on this new page on Radix
1.8.01 Bricks, Mortar, and Earthquakes, Historic Preservation vs. Earthquake Safety by Randolph Langenbach. APT BULLETIN. THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY Volume XXI, NO. 3&4, 1989
1.8.01 UNESCO: INDIA EARTHQUAKE REPORT and PHOTOGRAPHS
1.8.01 Draft Annotated Guidelines for Inter-Agency Collaboration in Programming for Disaster Reduction: Concepts and Definitions: A Discussion. (Final Draft). Document elaborated for Emergency Response Division, UNDP, Geneva. Allan Lavell, October 2000.
21.5.01 'Vulnerability' in Disaster Theory and Practice: From Soup to Taxonomy, then to Analysis and finally Tool. Draft paper by Ben Wisner
16.6.01 Disasters and Sustainable Development Course: South Africa 27 June - 4 July, 2001
16.6.01 Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme
5.6.01 The Impact of Disasters on Development Gains: Clarity or Controversy Allan Lavell
5.6.01 Razor Wire Doesn't Make You Safe! A Photo Essay on San Salvador in Recovery from the January and February 2001 Earthquakes by Ben Wisner
5.6.01 Urban livelihoods and natural disasters by David Sanderson
5.6.01 ReliefWeb - India: Cyclone Information Bulletin No. 1
5.6.01 SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions)
5.6.01 Lessons from the Theatre: Should this be the Final Curtain Call for the Convention to Combat Desertification? by Camilla Toulmin IIED, UK
5.6.01 GOVERNING THE BORDERLANDS: Decoding the Power of Aid by Mark Duffield (1 February 2001)
14.5.01 Go to: ASSESSMENT OF POST-EARTHQUAKE ACTIONS IN GUJARAT IN THE EYES OF THE MEDIA by Rohit Jigyasu. Download complete file (117kb).

 

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