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Australia – Canada Consortium on Health and Conflict: Preventing Violence, Recovery and Building the Peace

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Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)

http://www.ausaid.gov.au

What to learn more about health, conflict and peace-building?

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Conflict and health
Conflict and human security
Conflict and development issues
Humanitarian issues
Peace-building
Conflict sensitivity and trust
Human rights and social justice
Cultural sensitivity
Gender issues
Psychosocial health and well-being
Good governance and human resources
News and networks
United Nations links
Journals, newsletters and forums
Educational Resources
Bibliographies and libraries


Conflict and Health

Australia-Canada Consortium on Health and Conflict
http://healthandconflict.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/
The project draws on the experience of academics and practitioners from Australia and Canada at the interface between health systems and conflict prevention and peace-building, conflict management and reduction, and support for post-conflict recovery. The study aims to contribute to the knowledge of, and evidence around, the interface between health and conflict by documenting experience and identifying good practice.

· Issues Paper I: Health and Peace-building: Securing the future

· Issues Paper II: The Challenge of Human Resources in Conflict-Prone Situations

A Health-to-Peace Handbook
http://www.jha.ac/Ref/r005.htm

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
http://www.ippnw.org/homepage.html
IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conflict resolution, and to minimize the effects of war and preparations for war on health, development, and the environment.

World Report on Violence and Health


Conflict and Human Security

Human Security Centre

Security Demographic
http://www.populationaction.org/securitydemographic/pdfs/SecurityDemographic.PDF
Document discusses population and civil conflict after the Cold War

Berghof Handbook on Conflict Transformation
http://www.berghof-handbook.net/index.htm
The Berghof Center has taken the initiative to produce this Handbook in 1999 in response to the contemporary challenges of violent ethnopolitical conflict and recent developments in the field of conflict transformation. The project is based on the conviction that responding constructively to inter-group conflicts requires more ingenuity, creativity and hard work than has been invested into this area so far.

Deadly Connections: The War/Disease Nexus: Human Security Report:
http://www.humansecurityreport.info/deadlyconnections.htm

International Crisis Group
http://www.crisisweb.org/
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.

Responding to Conflict
http://www.respond.org/


Conflict and Development Issues

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment Unit
http://www.bellanet.org/pcia/index.cfm
The PCIA Unit developed a collaborative relationship to developed recommendations for PCIA-related activities, create a preliminary web-based set of resources to assist in supporting communications and information sharing around PCIA, promote significant participation of partners from the South, and report back to CPRN on the development of both activities with a view to their sustainability over the longer term, including joint and coordinated PCIA application and results sharing.

The Global Development Network (GDN)
http://www.gdnet.org

Overseas Development Institute
http://www.odi.org.uk/

The Collaborative for Development Action, Inc.
http://www.cdainc.com/rpp
Reflecting on Peace Practices Project: A Collaborative Learning Project of Agencies Involved in Working on Conflict

Conflict, Development and Peace Network
http://www.codep.org.uk/

The World Bank Group: Conflict and development


Humanitarian Issues

The Global Study on Participation of Affected Populations in Humanitarian Action
http://www.globalstudyparticipation.org/
A research project facilitated and promoted by the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) and implemented by Group URD. The aim of the Global Study is to help fill in gaps in our understanding and use of consultation and participatory mechanisms in humanitarian aid.

Global Internally Displaced Persons Project: Monitoring Social Displacement Worldwide
http://www.idpproject.org


Peacebuilding

A Health-to-Peace Handbook
http://www.jha.ac/Ref/r005.htm

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment and NGO Peace-building document
http://www.international-alert.org/pdf/pubdev/pcia.pdf

Coalition of Women for Peace
http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org/

Women, war and peace – UNIFEM
http://www.womenwarpeace.org

Conciliation Resources
http://www.c-r.org/
Conciliation Resources (CR) serves as an international resource for local organizations pursuing peace-building and conflict resolution initiatives. Their main aim is to support groups working at community, national and international levels to prevent violence or transform armed conflict into opportunities for social, political and economic development based on more just relationships.

The Collaborative for Development Action, Inc.
http://www.cdainc.com/rpp
Reflecting on Peace Practices Project: A Collaborative Learning Project of Agencies Involved in Working on Conflict

Peace Direct
http://www.peacedirect.org

Transcend: A Peace and Development Organisation for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
http://www.transcend.org


Conflict Sensitivity and Trust

WHO Health as a Bridge to Peace (HBP). HBP is described as multidimensional policy and planning framework which supports health workers in delivering health programs in conflict and post-conflict situations and at the same time contribute to peace-building. The website includes an Active Learning Package – a training tool for health staff http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/hbp/en/index.html or http://www.who.int/disasters/bridge.cfm
Anderson E. 2005. ABC of conflict and disaster: approaches to conflict resolution. BMJ. 331: 344-346 Mary B. Anderson. Do No Harm. How aid can support peace – or war. London, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.

Mary B. Andersen. The Do No Harm Handbook: The framework for analysing the impact of assistance on conflict. November 2004. Available from: http://www.cdainc.com/dnh/docs/DoNoHarmHandbook.pdf

FEWER, International Alert, Saferworld. 2003. Conflict Sensitivity Resource Pack. Available from: http://www.coflictsensitivity.org.

UNSW Health and Conflict Project. 2004, Issues Paper I: Health and Peace-building: Securing the Future. AusAID, Canberra. Available from: http://healthandconflict.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au.

UNSW Health and Conflict Project. 2004, Issues Paper II: The Challenge of Human Resource Management in Conflict-prone Situations. AusAID, Canberra. Available from: http://healthandconflict.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au.

Bunde-Birouste, A., Eisenbruch, E., Grove, N., Humphrey, M., Silove, D., Waller, E., Zwi, A. 2004, Background Paper I: Health and Peace-building: Securing the Future. The University of New South Wales, Sydney. Available from: http://healthandconflict.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au.

Berghoff Handbook on Conflict Transformation: http://www.berghof-handbook.net/index.htm
Conflict Prevention and Resolution: http://www.c-r.org
Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment and NGO Peace-building document
http://www.international-alert.org/pdf/pubdev/pcia.pdf
Gilson, L. (2003). "Trust and the development of health care as a social institution." Social Science & Medicine 56: 1453-1468.

Green, J. (2004). "Is trust an under-researched component of healthcare organisation?" BMJ 329(7462): 384.

'Institutional Design and the Rebuilding of Trust', in William Maley, Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur (eds), From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003) pp.163-179

Goudge, J., Gilson, L. How can trust be investigated? Drawing lessons from past experience. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 61, Issue 7, October 2005, Pages 1439-1451


Human Rights and Social Justice

Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/
The Francois-Xavier Banoud Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Centre combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.

Health and Human Rights: Gruskin S, Tarantola D; Oxford Textbook of Public Health, Oxford University Press, 2000. Also on: www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/working_paper.htm.

Researching Health and Human Rights
http://www.rhhr.net/

Centre for Social Justice
http://www.socialjustice.org/
The Centre for Social Justice is an advocacy organization that seeks to strengthen the struggle for social justice. We are committed to working for change in partnership with various social movements and recognize that effective change requires the active participation of all sectors of our community.

No War Zone
http://www.nowarzone.org
No War Zone is a network of youth from around the world working together for peace and human rights.

World Report 2004: Human Rights and Armed Conflict (Jan. 2004) -
http://hrw.org/wr2k4/

Human Rights Brief, vol. 11, no. 1 (Fall 2003) -
http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/hrbrief111.pdf (full-text, PDF)

World Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights, Quito, 2-4 March 2004
http://www.fidh.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=382
Currently ongoing, but site includes a number of conference documents.

World Forum on Human Rights, Nantes, France, 16-19 May 2004
Three main themes of the Forum are terrorism, discrimination and poverty.

Human Rights First
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org

U.S. Human Rights Network
http://www.ushrnetwork.org/

McIntyre, D., Gilson, L. Putting equity in health back onto the social policy agenda: experience from South Africa. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 54, Issue 11, June 2002, Pages 1637-1656


Cultural Sensitivity

UNFPA. 2004. Culture matters – working with communities and faith-based organisations. Case Studies from Country Programmes. Available http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/267_filename_CultureMatters_2004.pdf

Dyregrov, Atle; Gupta, Leila; Gjestad, Rolf; Raundalen, Magne. Is culture always right? Traumatology. 8:13, 2002.

Conflict sensitive approaches to development and humanitarian assistance and peace-building: Tools for peace and conflict impact assessments

Conflict sensitive approaches to development:
http://pcia.fewer.org/index.html


Gender Issues

Gender and Conflict Issues: http://www.womenwarpeace.org

Reproductive Health: http://who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/RHR_00_13_conflict_and_displacement/

WomenWatch: UN information and resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM): http://www.unifem.org/

Inclusive Security: Women waging peace: http://www.womenwagingpeace.net/

Peace Women Project
http://www.peacewomen.org/wpsindex.html
Peace Women Project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. WILPF's Peace Women Project serves as one actor in the greater women, peace and security community.


Psychosocial Health and Well-being

The Psychosocial Working Group http://www.forcedmigration.org/psychosocial

World Health Organisation - Mental health of refugees, internally displaced persons and other populations affected by conflict http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/pht/mental_health_refugees/en

Social capital: Reviewing the concept and its policy implications: http://www.pc.gov.au/research/commres/socialcapital/socialcapital.pdf


Good Governance and Human Resources

The Conflict Management Toolkit
http://www.beyondintractability.org/iweb/

Smith, J. 2004 Human Resources for Health: Exploring experience and opportunities for change in a post-conflict environment.

WHO. World Health Reports. In World Health Report 2000: Health systems; improving performance see Chapter 3 ‘Health services: well chosen, well organised?’ and Chapter 4 ‘What resources are needed’. In World Health Report 2004: Changing History see Chapter 4 ‘Health systems; finding new strength’.

Chen et al. 2004. Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the crisis. The Lancet; 364:1984-1990.

Aid Workers Exchange: http://aidworkers.net/exchange/

People in Aid – Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel. http://www.peopleinaid.org/

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights: http://www.unhchr.ch/development/governance-01.html


News and Networks

OneWorld network
http://www.oneworld.net
The OneWorld network and portal brings you the latest news, action, campaigns and organisations in human rights and global issues across five continents and in 11 different languages, published across its international site, regional editions, and thematic channels. Many of these are produced from the South to widen the participation of the world's poorest and marginalised peoples in the global debate.

Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org

IRIN news
http://www.irinnews.org
The Integrated Regional Information Network of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides news summaries on humanitarian issues from Africa and Asia.

UN News Centre
http://www.un.org/News/

International Alert
http://www.international-alert.org/

Crisisweb
http://www.crisisweb.org
The International Crisis Group's website contains ICG reports from Asia, Africa and the Balkans, as well as reports on thematic issues.

ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int
The scope of ReliefWeb is emergency response - both natural disasters and man-made. It spans all sectors, including: Agriculture; Coordination and Support Services; Education; Food; Health; Infrastructure and rehabilitation; Mine Action; Protection, Human Rights, Rule of Law; Refugees and IDPs; Search & Rescue; Security; Shelter and Non-food Items; Water & Sanitation.

International Relations and Security Network
http://www.isn.ethz.ch
The ISN provides on-line news briefs and resource documentation.

Political Resources on the Net
http://www.politicalresources.net
Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to parties, organizations, governments, media and more from all around the world.

AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/emergency/HA_UNR.htm

No War Zone
http://www.nowarzone.org
A network of youth from around the world working together for peace and human rights.

World-Newspapers.com
http://www.world-newspapers.com/

International Crisis Group
http://www.crisisweb.org/
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.


United Nations Links

WHO’s Health Action in Crisis
http://www.who.int/hac/en/

WHO Health as a Bridge to Peace website http://www.who.int/disasters/hbp/genreal/biography

UN System: Standing committee on nutrition http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/html/rnis.html

UNDP - Millennium Development Goals
http://www.undp.org/mdg

United Nations Refugee Agency
http://www.unhcr.org

United Nations Children’s Fund
http://www.unicef.org

United Nations Population Fund
http://www.unfpa.org

UNIFEM - Women, war and peace
http://www.womenwarpeace.org
IRIN news
http://www.irinnews.org
The Integrated Regional Information Network of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides news summaries on humanitarian issues from Africa and Asia.

UN News Centre
http://www.un.org/News/
United Nations Development Programme
http://www.undp.org/


Journals, Newsletters and Forums

The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/

Peace, Conflict and Development: An interdisciplinary Journal
http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/
Peace, Conflict and Development is a new open-access journal focusing on contemporary issues in Conflict and Peace Studies. It aims to publish innovative and accessible writing on a wide range of topics – human rights, democracy and democratisation, conflict resolution, environment, security, war, culture, identity and community, and other related areas of interest.

Accord: An international review of peace initiatives
http://www.c-r.org/accord/index.shtml
Conciliation Resources' Accord Programme aims to support the efforts of those directly involved in transforming armed conflict into opportunities for sustainable human development, by responding to the ongoing challenge of informing and enhancing peace processes around the world. Working collaboratively with locally-based organizations, the Accord Programme aims to:
· document peace processes and initiatives and the sources and dynamics of particular conflicts;
· increase public access, both locally and internationally to the understanding of peace processes and peace agreements
· promote learning, domestically and internationally from past and comparable peace making experiences

Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org

International Review of the Red Cross
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/Info_resources:International_Review?OpenDocument
The focus is on Africa and humanitarian action

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
http://www.jha.ac

Taylor and Francis on-line journals
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/main.asp?wasp=pggjvjttqq0emahruj3y

Journal of Refugee Studies
http://rsq.oupjournals.org/
Focus is on the economic and social consequences of humanitarian
crises.

International Journal of Refugee Law
http://ijrl.oupjournals.org/

International Migration Review
http://www.jstor.org/journals/01979183.html

WHO Health in Emergencies Newsletter
http://www.who.int/hac/network/newsletter/en/

Human Rights First
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org
Formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR).

Aid Workers Exchange
http://aidworkers.net/exchange/
Aid Workers Exchange is a weekly e-mail bulletin for knowledge sharing amongst relief and development practitioners. It covers a wide variety of topics with the format alternating between questions/responses and short, practical articles.

Peace, Conflict and Development: An interdisciplinary journal
http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/index.asp


Educational Resources

McMaster University Peace through Health Programme
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/peace-health/

Heidelberg Institute of International Conflict Research
http://www.hiik.de/en/index_e.htm
Contains a Conflict Barometer which describes the recent trends in conflict development, escalations, and settlements and gives a prognosis for short- and mid-term trends in global political conflicts. They also publish KOSIMO, a database containing approximately 693 political conflicts from 1945 to 1999.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
http://www.sipri.com
Features a country profiles database as well as a range of documentation on recent research projects.

Peace Research Index
http://www.bonn.iz-soz.de/afb/pri/pri.htm
The Peace Research Index of the Peace Research Information Unit in Bonn.

European Centre for Conflict Prevention
http://www.euconflict.org/

International Development Research Centre
http://web.idrc.ca/
IDRC is a Canadian public corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

International Peace Academy
http://www.ipacademy.org/
The International Peace Academy is an independent, international institution dedicated to prmoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflicts between and within states though policy research and development.

Bibliographies and Libraries

 IDRC Library Catalogue
http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/LIBRARY?DIRECTSEARCH

United Institute for Peace Library
www.usip.org/library/pa.html
Contains a Peace Agreements Digital Collection. It is being constantly updated to contain the full text of agreements signed by the major contending parties ending inter- and intra-state conflicts world-wide since 1989.

Enhancing Women’s Participation in Electoral Processes in Post-Conflict Countries: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resource Materials (Jan.2004)