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1052. Fracturing Communities :Aid Distribution in a Palestinian Camp
- Author:
- Perla Issa
- Publication Date:
- 03-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Abstract:
- This article examines the practices of humanitarian aid distribution from the perspective of aid recipients rather than providers through an immersion in the daily home life of Palestinian residents of Nahr al-Barid refugee camp (north Lebanon) in 2011. It argues that in the name of distributing aid fairly, humanitarian aid providers put in place a pervasive system of surveillance to monitor, evaluate, and compare residents’ misery levels by relying on locally recruited aid workers. This regime of visibility was designed to be one directional; NGOs never disclosed how much aid they had available, nor when or how it would be distributed. The inclusion of local aid workers in this opaque framework turned a process that relied on community and neighborhood ties into an impersonal machine that fostered doubt and suspicion and ultimately hindered the community’s ability to engage in collective political action.
- Topic:
- Humanitarian Aid, International Security, International Affairs, and Occupation
- Political Geography:
- Palestine
1053. Humanitarian Reality in Columbia: Saving Lives and Safeguarding the Future of Peace
- Author:
- Francisca De Castro
- Publication Date:
- 11-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Public International Law Policy Group
- Abstract:
- ince the 1960s, Colombia has been faced with a situation of armed violence that has plunged the country in insecurity and crisis. Groups of farmers had created self-defense militias, which later turned into guerrilla groups, over agrarian disputes with the government. The violence turned into a conflict between state forces, paramilitary groups, and guerrilla groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), amongst others. In 2016, the Colombian government and the FARC signed a peace agreement which put an end to more than 60 years of civil war. However, three years later, the humanitarian reality in Colombia is still far from resolved. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that the humanitarian situation in Colombia had in fact decayed in 2018. According to the ICRC, this was a consequence of the five remaining armed conflicts with other groups that were running in parallel, and the ineffective state response to these conflicts in certain rural communities, such asthe Catatumbo and the Cauca regions.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Violence, Peace, and Humanitarian Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Colombia and South America
1054. Basis and Implications of the ICC's Ruling Against Myanmar
- Author:
- Tanushree Nigam
- Publication Date:
- 12-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Public International Law Policy Group
- Abstract:
- n a major decision, the International Criminal Court ruled on September 6, 2018 that the Court may exercise jurisdiction over the crime of alleged deportation of the Rohingyas from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The Pre-Trial Chamber accepted the OTP’s argument that the Court may exercise jurisdiction over the crime of cross border deportation of Rohingyas even though the alleged crime had been committed in Myanmar which is not a State Party. The Pre-Trial Chamber stated that this could be done as some “elements of the crime” had taken place in the territory of Bangladesh, which is a State Party. This judgment makes a towering statement that ICC’s jurisdiction is objective rather than subjective in nature. In this post, I discuss the basis and implications of the Chamber’s findings.
- Topic:
- Legal Theory, International Criminal Court (ICC), Humanitarian Crisis, and Deportation
- Political Geography:
- Africa, Asia, South Korea, North Korea, and Myanmar
1055. Kroc Insight – What It Means to Put Youth in the Driver’s Seat
- Author:
- Kristina Medina
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace Justice, University of San Diego
- Abstract:
- Former Kroc IPJ Program Officer Tina Medina writes the third installment in the Kroc Insight series to dive deeper into both the key capacities youth need in order to be impactful Peace Leaders, as well as the key enablers we need to provide in order for that learning and leading to happen.
- Topic:
- Political Activism, Leadership, Youth, and Peace
- Political Geography:
- United States and North America
1056. https://www.sandiego.edu/peace/images/ipj/18_Kroc_KrocInsight_PDF_FINAL%202.pdf
- Author:
- Daniel Orth
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace Justice, University of San Diego
- Abstract:
- fforts to improve public safety that involve religious leaders without a strong standing in the community are destined to fail. The question that the Kroc IPJ’s Building Trust Partnership has been wrestling with is, where does this trust come from and how do clergy maintain it? In the first installment of the Institute’s new publication series, Kroc Insight, Program Officer Daniel Orth and Building Trust Partnership cohort members Cornelius Bowser and Archie Robinson explore the difficult balancing act that faith leaders must make to avoid being seen as too closely aligned to the police or the community.
- Topic:
- Religion, Leadership, Peace, Police, Community, and Faith
- Political Geography:
- United States and North America
1057. http://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/KrocInsight-ImpactPeace.pdf
- Author:
- Rachel Locke and Andrew Blum
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace Justice, University of San Diego
- Abstract:
- Globally, violence is on the rise with trend analysis suggesting that urban violence will continue to push rates up if we do not take action to shift the status quo. Urgent situations merit urgent, yet strategic responses. In the fourth installment of our Kroc Insight series, we present important knowledge on how Impact:Peace and the Peace in Our Cities campaign can help drive change by putting evidence behind city efforts to support integrated approaches to violence reduction.
- Topic:
- Human Rights, Violence, Urban, and Peace
- Political Geography:
- United States, California, North America, and San Diego
1058. Mobility of Labour versus Capital: A Global Governance Perspective
- Author:
- Stuart Rosewarne and Nicola Piper
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for Development and Peace
- Abstract:
- The mobility of people can be defined as one of the pillars of globalisation because of the posi- tive effects it can engender for global economic development. Yet, the governance of migration contrasts with other dimensions of glo- balisation. The liberalisation of international trade, money and finance has been backed by an internationally-endorsed governance architec- ture. There has not been a comparable counter- part regulating migration. Increased migration and movement of refugees have exposed this lacuna, resulting in what we characterise as the securitisation-liberalisation paradox: the chal- lenge in advancing the development promise of international migration and reconciling it with maintaining the integrity of national sovereignty without compromising human and labour rights. The United Nations’ (UN) Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration articulate a raft of gov- ernance principles and instruments to encour- age international cooperation. However, the preoccupation with ensuring national sovereign- ty has prevailed to the detriment of furthering a post-migration paradigm with respect to human and labour rights. What is needed is a broader focus on migration, a better understanding of its various forms and a rights-based approach in migration governance.
- Topic:
- Globalization, Migration, United Nations, Governance, and Refugee Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
1059. Making Conflict Prevention a Concrete Reality at the UN
- Author:
- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- Publication Date:
- 02-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for Development and Peace
- Abstract:
- The idea of conflict prevention is makiong a comeback. Though at the heart of the United Nations charter, previous attempts to make conflict prevention a concrete reality within the UN system had limited success and were restricted primarily to the prevention of imminent or recuring conflict via mediation and good offices.
- Topic:
- Conflict Prevention, Security, Human Rights, United Nations, and Conflict
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
1060. The Attacks in Sri Lanka and Trends in Salafi Jihadist Activity
- Author:
- Yoram Schweitzer
- Publication Date:
- 05-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
- Abstract:
- The recent suicide attack in Sri Lanka, launched by a local group linked to the Islamic State, targeted the symbols of Christianity and Western tourists and businesspeople. The attack aimed to terrorize Sri Lankan citizens, drive a wedge between them and the government, and foment discord between the various ethnic groups. It demonstrated anew that the lack of effective cooperation and intelligence sharing between the intelligence, security, and enforcement agencies is a central factor in the success of terror groups to carry out their plans. The military defeat of the Islamic State does not herald the destruction of the organization or the end of its activity - quite the opposite. The Salafi jihadist ideology and the modus operandi represented by the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and their affiliates continue to inspire terrorists, whether they are directly or indirectly linked to them, or see them as a model for imitation. Details and the lessons of the Sri Lanka attack, if properly learned, will help prevent or obstruct future terror plans of the Islamic State and its supporters – plans that are expected to challenge many countries in the years to come.
- Topic:
- Terrorism, Violent Extremism, Al Qaeda, and Islamic State
- Political Geography:
- South Asia, Asia, and Sri Lanka