Web Links and Resources

• An Easy Reference To International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
• Definition of Internally Displaced Persons
• Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
• Guiding Principles of Humanitarian Assistance
• OCHA web page on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
• Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
• UNOCHA/ Reliefweb
• OCHA Online - Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict - Protection Parameters
• UN Secretary-General says using child soldiers can no longer be done with impunity, as Security Council holds day-long debate on children and armed conflict (14 Jan 2003)
• Reports of the Secretary-General on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (Mar 2001), (Sep 1999) and (Nov 2002)
• UN Security Council Presidential Statement and Aide-Memoire on 13 Core Objectives of Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict (15 Mar 2002)

• Children in War
• Civilian Population and International Humanitarian Law - ICRC resources
• Commentary on the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross
• Dissemination and training activities to armed and police/security forces
• Geneva Conventions: The basis of International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
• International Criminal Jurisdiction (and many related documents)
• Missing persons and international humanitarian law
• Missing persons - International Review of the Red Cross, special issue December 2002
• Penal Repression of Violations of IHL
• People missing as a result of armed conflict or internal violence
• Protection of Elderly People in War
• War and Displacement
• Women and international humanitarian law
• Women and war
• IHL Databases
  • www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57KL22?OpenDocument
  • www.icrc.org/ihl-nat

• Condemned to repeat?: The paradox of humanitarian action
• Exploring the limits of humanitarian aid
• Humanitarian action must not be a tool of political interests
• Mission Impossible - Humanitarianism is neutral or it is nothing
• MSF rejects link of humanitarian and military actions
• The War on Terror's challenges to humanitarian action
• Understanding the divide between military and humanitarian action

• A Bridge Too Far: Aid Agencies and the Military in Humanitarian Response
• Humanitarian protection: a critical review of concepts and practice
• International Humanitarian Action: A Review of Policy Trends
• Law, principles and the Responsibility to Protect - The ODI Humanitarian Policy Group proposes to develop a major new programme of work on humanitarian protection
• Shifting Sands: The Search for Coherence Between Political and Humanitarian Action
• The New Humanitarianisms: A Review of Trends in Global Humanitarian Action
• The Politics of Coherence: Humanitarianism and Foreign Policy in the post-Cold War Era
• The Politics of Principle: The Principles of Humanitarian Action in Practice
• The Principles of Humanitarian Action in International Humanitarian Law
• Women and War: Sexual Violence

• Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Courts
• UN (1998) Report of the Secretary-General on The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa. United Nations, New York
• UN (2001) Report of the Secretary-General on Prevention of armed conflict (S/2001/5747) June
• UN (2000) Report of the Panel on UN Peace Operations (the Brahimi report) A/55/305 - S/2000/809, August 2000
• UN Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, 15 December 1999
• UN Security Council warns of HIV/AIDS risk to Stability, Security
• United Nations Treaty Collection
• UN reports of the UN Secretary-General to the Security Council on
  • Protection of civilians in armed conflict
  • Children and armed conflict
  • Women, peace and security
  • Small arms
  • Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
  • Regional and country specific peacekeeping missions
  www.un.org/documents/repsc.htm

• UNDP UNDP (2000), Role of UNDP in crisis and post-conflict situations, Paper for the UNDP Executive Board, First regular session 2001, 29 January-6 February 2001, New York, Item 2 of the provisional agenda, UNDP Business Plans 2000-2003
• UNHCR Action for the Rights of Children
• UNHCR Protection and assistance to unaccompanied and separated refugee children: Report of the Secretary-General
• UNHCR Agenda for Protection
• UNICEF Special Session on Children
• UNIFEM Independent Experts' Assessment on Women, War and Peace
• UNIFEM Women, Peace and Security: Progress on UN Security Council Resolution 1325

• Crimes of War: What the public should know
  www.crimesofwar.org/
• Focus on Nation-Building - including Afghanistan and Rwanda
  www.developments.org.uk/
• Forced Migration Review
  www.fmreview.org/
• Humanitarian Accountability: Findings and New Directions for the Future
  www.hapgeneva.org/
• IHL Databases
  www.ihlresearch.org
• International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative
  www.ihlresearch.org/portal/ihli/portalhome.php
• Online forum to discuss justice after genocide and mass violence
  www.facinghistory.org/facing/fhao2.nsf
• Small Arms Survey and yearbooks
  www.smallarmssurvey.org/
• USAID (2001), The Role of Foreign Assistance in Conflict Prevention, Conference Proceedings and Background Papers
  www.usaid.gov/pubs/confprev/jan2001/index.html
• War Prevention Works: 50 stories of people resolving conflicts
  www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/wpw%20-%20report.html
• World IDP map by the Global IDP Project
  www.idpproject.org/images/website_maps/IDP_worldmap.gif
• The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries
  www.amazon.com
• Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace-Or War
  www.amazon.com

• A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, David Rieff, published Simon & Schuster
• A Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier, Littlefield Publishers (2002)
• 'Positioning Humanitarianism in War: Principles of Neutrality, Impartiality and Solidarity', Hugo Slim, Development in Practice, vol. 7, no. 4, 1997