This report reviews Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), with a particular focus on the relationship between OLS’s creation of humanitarian space, and the flow of assistance to war-affected populations. It sets out to assess and analyse the effectiveness of the OLS modus operandi in meeting the needs of war-affected civilians.
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CSRF Research Repository
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This PhD thesis examines to what extent the disparity between North and South can be explained in terms of the early Anglo-Egyptian Condominium’ legacy. Download
This is a discussion paper concerned with some of the acute dilemmas increasingly confronted by international relief agencies concerned with “political emergencies” – often called “complex emergencies” – in Africa… This paper argues that relief organizations largely developed their current mandates during the Cold War era. These restricted mandates are less relevant to many current disasters in Africa. In expanding their mandates, however, relief agencies run a danger whereby different components of their enlarged mandates…
Africa Watch conducted field research in south Sudan in June and July 1993 to gather information about rules of war violations in the conflict. The following is a preliminary report of findings and recommendations to the United Nations, the United States, the international community and all sides to the conflict for ending abuses.
This report explores food need and production capability in rural areas of South Sudan in 1990.
Most of the people who start to work for relief agencies in Africa have not bad previous experience of knowingly contributing to the suffering and death of a large number of people. Relief agencies do not tend to attract people who have this sort of experience, and they do not include it in their job descriptions when recruiting. Yet the disturbing activity of voluntarily being unpleasant to strangers is one of the most frequent activities…
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