Rehabilitation in Complex Political Emergencies: Is Rebuilding Civil Society the Answer?

Harvey, Paul

doi:10.1111/1467-7717.00087

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“…Harvey (1997) explains this breakdown as a result of deprivation and scarcity. Azarya (1994) asserts that in the face of scarce resources, immediate needs take precedence over any social obligations including the rights or needs of others (as cited in Harvey).…”

Section: Informal Assistance and Household Welfarementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Moderating Effects of Violent Conflict on Household Welfare in a Resource-Constrained Environment: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lombe

Newransky

Stokes

et al. 2010

Journal of Social Service Research

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This study examines correlates of household welfare in three countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, using data from the 2004 wave of the Afrobarometer survey. We also assess the role violent conflict might play in influencing this relationship. This subject has become especially relevant today in sub-Saharan Africa, given the growing disfranchisement of vulnerable individuals and households and increased incidents of violent conflict. Insight into the relationship between violent conflict and household welfare may be an important step in understanding why many sub-Saharan African countries have difficulties in stimulating economic growth and welfare. The study sample includes 3,525 respondents. Study findings provide partial support for the hypothesized relationship. Specifically, poverty reduction initiatives and informal assistance are associated with reduced hardship, while violent conflict is related to an increase in hardship. We also note that certain individual and household characteristics are linked to hardship. Practice and policy implications are suggested.

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Section: Informal Assistance and Household Welfarementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Moderating Effects of Violent Conflict on Household Welfare in a Resource-Constrained Environment: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lombe

Newransky

Stokes

et al. 2010

Journal of Social Service Research

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“…The capacities of local people and organisations in 'normal' times historically vary from country to country. Conflict may severely erode the resilience of local people and the strength of civil society (Harvey, 1998), and the same is true in situations where there is a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS (de Waal, 2002). The possible role that local people can play in humanitarian work is thus diverse, and partly depends on the phase of the disaster response.…”

Section: Humanitarian Aid and Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Dead letter or living document? Ten years of the Code of Conduct for disaster relief

Hilhorst

2005

Disasters

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This paper examines the present value of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief, in view of discussions on neutrality and the Western bias of the humanitarian aid system, and assesses how it can retain its relevance in future. The Code of Conduct was launched just after the Rwanda genocide of April 1994. A decade later, the crises in Afghanistan and Iraq have sparked renewed interest in humanitarian principles and in whether the code can serve as an instrument to define humanitarianism and guide humanitarian decision-making and coordination. More than 300 organisations have now subscribed to it. This paper is based on the findings of a survey of code signatories and the outcomes of a conference on the value and future of the code, held in The Hague, Netherlands, in September 2004 to mark its tenth anniversary.

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“…This approach is based on a view of civil society as a counterbalance to state power (Harvey, 1997). This is of particular relevance in the Wanni.…”

Section: Civil Society and Community Empowermentmentioning

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Civil Society Development Versus the Peace Dividend: International Aid in the Wanni

Culbert¹

2005

Disasters

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Donors that provide aid to the Wanni region of Sri Lanka, which is controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), are promoting initiatives that seek to advance the national peace process. Under the rubric of post-conflict reconstruction, the actions of political forces and structural factors have led to the prioritisation of two different approaches to peace-building: community capacity-building projects; and support for the 'peace dividend'. Both of these approaches face challenges. Cooperation with civil society actors is extremely difficult due to intimidation by the LTTE political authority and the authoritarian nature of its control. Peace-building successes with respect to the peace dividend are difficult to measure, and must be balanced against the negative effects of misdirected funds. Aid organisations must be careful not to consider the tasks of peacebuilding, humanitarian relief and community empowerment as either interchangeable or as mutually reinforcing endeavours.

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Rehabilitation in Complex Political Emergencies: Is Rebuilding Civil Society the Answer?

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

Exploring Moderating Effects of Violent Conflict on Household Welfare in a Resource-Constrained Environment: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Exploring Moderating Effects of Violent Conflict on Household Welfare in a Resource-Constrained Environment: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Dead letter or living document? Ten years of the Code of Conduct for disaster relief

Civil Society Development Versus the Peace Dividend: International Aid in the Wanni

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