Early Warning and Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa

Early Warning and Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa
Author: Cirû Mwaûra
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781569021576

The Horn of Africa has come to be defined by the frequency and intensity of its violent conflicts. Yet, whereas in other regions conflict prevention stresses formal, top-down inter-governmental structures, in the Horn of Africa an alternative conflict management regime that seeks to build on local capacity and is based on inclusive and collaborative decision-making has emerged. This publication outlines the two-year process of CEWARN's and IGAD's development.

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data
Author: Molly E. Brown
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2008-05-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540753699

This book describes the interdisciplinary work of USAID's Famine Early Warning System (FEWS NET) and its influence on methodological and development policies in the US. This book describes FEWS NET's systems, methods and presents several illustrative case studies that will demonstrate the integration of both physical and social science disciplines in its work. The aim of this book is to bring the work of USAID's Famine Early warning System Network into the public domain.

Famine Early Warning Systems

Famine Early Warning Systems
Author: Peter Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134070934

Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives? Or is this the wrong question? A famine is not a single natural catastrophe: it has different stages. Many societies have sophisticated strategies for coping – but these are becoming dramatically limited. Famine Early Warning System is about the people who are caught up in the process of famine. Peter Walker looks at how they perceive their predicament and what they do to avert mass starvation: and at what genuinely useful help can be offered in order to prevent irreversible disaster. Originally published in 1989

Genocide Studies

Genocide Studies
Author: Jeffrey S. Bachman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2024-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1978832346

In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and interstate armed conflicts. Moreover, climate change continues to plow ahead, contributing to growing tensions, population movements, and resource scarcity. Meanwhile, the methods by which groups and group life are threatened, and the means by which violence is incited and perpetrated, continue to evolve. Such divergent crises, even when they overlap or intersect, confound definition and label. This book seeks not to answer the question "What is genocide?" but rather "What is genocide studies?" When Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in 1944, he could not have foreseen what the world would look like today. Now is the time to think about current manifestations of genocide and those likely to emerge in the future.

Resource Conservation and Food Security

Resource Conservation and Food Security
Author: Tapeshwar Singh
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788180691027

Papers presented at the International Symposium on Land Degradation: New Trends towards Sustainable Agriculture and the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Food Security Workshop organized by Dept. of Geography, M.M.H. College, Ghaziabad, India, on 7-12 April, 2002.