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Handbook on participatory methods for community-based projects: A Guide for programmers and implementers based on the participatory action research project with young mothers and their children in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Uganda
A Handbook on Participatory Methods for Community-Based Projects. This has been designed to help integrate more participatory methods into programming for vulnerable populations, especially war affected young adults and children. In Liberia, Sierra Leone
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Building meaningful participation in reintegration among war-affected young mothers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and northern Uganda
When young mothers, formerly associated with armed groups, return to their communities, they are typically more isolated socially, stigmatized, and marginalized. This creates reintegration challenges for themselves, and their communities.Their children fa
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Training Manual on Child Rights and Child Protection for UNIFIL Peacekeepers
War is part of everyday life for millions of children. Some have never known any other life while others live in the midst of civil wars, armed insurgency, and/ or under long-term occupation by a foreign army. For others, the world is suddenly turned upsi
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an uncertain future? Children and Armed Conflict in the Central African Republic
In order to advise policy-makers at a critical juncture after the re-election in January 2011 of President François Bozizé of the Central African Republic (CAR), the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict (Watchlist) and the Internal Displacement Monito
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Through a new lens: A Child-Sensitive Approach to Transitional Justice
“Through a New Lens: A Child-Sensitive Approach to Transitional Justice” analyzes experiences of four countries—Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Colombia and Nepal—and identifies some key lessons on children’s participation in transitional jus
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This is what we demand. Justice! Impunity for sexual violence against women in Colombia's armed conflict
Sexual violence is endemic to Colombia’s long-running armed conflict, now in its fifth decade. Colombia’s security forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla groups have all targeted women and girls to exploit them as sexual slaves, to wreak revenge on their ad
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Case Study: Preventing forced recruitment of children: Growing up with rights in the city of Medellín, Colombia
One of the main objectives of Save the Children’s project “Preventing forced recruitment of children in the city of Medellín, Colombia-Growing-up with rights’” is to provide protection to children affected by the armed conflict. It aims to reduce the risk
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The Recruitment and Use of Girls in Armed Forces and Groups in Angola: Implications for ethical research and reintegration
This paper examines the case of girls' recruitment in Angola, which has received relatively little attention. The Angolan case is particularly interesting because it reveals that girls' recruitment is neither incidental nor driven by convenience but owes
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Paix sans frontières- building peace across borders
War does not respect political or territorial boundaries. This twenty-second Accord publication looks at how peacebuilding strategies and capacity can ‘think outside the state’: beyond it, through regional engagement, and below it, through cross-border co
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Bridging the Accountability Gap: New approaches to addressing violations against children in armed conflict
Across the globe, a dramatic gap exists between efforts and outcomes in realizing accountability for grave violations against children in situations of armed conflict. To address this gap many practical opportunities exist. This report by Conflict Dynamic
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War and poverty. IDS Working paper
The main objective of this paper is to systematically identify potential channels of transmission linking civil war and poverty that may lead to the persistence of cycles of poverty and war. A particular focus of the paper is the notion of individual (and
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Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Democratic Republic of the Congo- Discussion papers
This paper undertakes a critical review of existing evidence on livelihoods and the delivery of basic services and social protection interventions in DRC, paying extra attention to the eastern provinces. Livelihoods sectors that are dealt with cover minin