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This report provides an analysis of the changing dynamics of the conflict in South Sudan between December 2013 and July 2017. The author tracks the multiple stages of the conflict, the impact on the South Sudanese community and concludes by…
This research paper takes a closer look at the domestic and external implications of Zimbabwe’s economic reform and re-engagement agenda.
Zimbabwe is facing an imminent crisis that will require an international humanitarian response in the near to medium-term future, with appropriate security measures for humanitarian workers. Former GISF Coordinator, Nick Hanson-James, takes a closer look at the Zimbabwean context and issues NGOs should aim to be aware of and prepared for given the current climate in the country.
This article by Antonio Donini and Daniel Maxwell (2014) provides a first attempt at analysing the complex set of issues around remote management practices in insecure environments and their increased use. It looks at definitions and reviews existing published and…
Issue 64 of the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, published by the Humanitarian Practice Network (Overseas Development Institute, ODI), focuses on the Ebola crisis in West Africa. In their article for the magazine, GISF Executive Coordinator Lisa Reilly and GISF Researcher Raquel…
GISF Executive Coordinator Lisa Reilly and GISF Researcher Raquel Vazquez-Llorente co-authored an article, titled "Organisational risk management in high-risk programmes: the non-medical response to the Ebola outbreak", featured in the June edition of the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine.
This report by Roland Marchal tries to understand the French policy towards the african countries of Chad and Sudan. It starts by noting the discrepancies during the previous year in french statements regarding those countries, and it then analysis the…
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This reports by the NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council, 2010) expands on the analysis of an earlier NRC report entitled Southern Sudan 2010: Mitigating a Humanitarian Crisis (February 2010), in examining displacement and reintegration challenges in pre- and post-referendum Southern Sudan.…
This report by the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (2010) provides an overview of some of the recent academic, policy and practitioner literature on conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It focuses on literature produced since mid-2007,…