Many states fail in their responsibilities to their citizens but those states which are fragile, failed or weak are particularly liable to render their citizens vulnerable. This latest issue of FMR includes 24 articles on fragile states and displacement, going behind the definitions, typologies and indicators to explore some of the concepts and realities, looking at a variety of cases and discussing some of the humanitarian and development responses. In addition this issue contains eight further articles...
FMR 43 Understanding refugees' concepts of sexual and gender-based violence
Sexual and gender-based violence prevention campaigns that incorporate culturally sensitive understanding will stand a better chance of breaking down barriers to accessing services.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 33 min
FMR 43 Emergency need for telecommunications support
The Haiti experience challenged the international humanitarian community to take advantage of the possibilities of increasingly available and common communications technologies and networks, and to ensure access to the infrastructure enabling it to do so.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 42 min
FMR 43 Poetry as women's resistance to the consequences of Bedouin displacement in Jordan
Bedouin women are able to mitigate some of the consequences of that displacement through the opportunities and influence they have gained as Nabati poets.
Fr 09.08.2013
5 : 36 min
FMR 43 Older people and displacement
At all phases of the displacement cycle, flight, displacement and return, older people are exposed to specific challenges and risks which are not sufficiently taken into account.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 59 min
FMR 43 Harming asylum seekers' chances through poor use of human rights treaties
Over the past decade, UK courts and administrative tribunals have become increasingly comfortable relying on international human rights treaties in cases where non-citizens claim asylum or other means of protection from persecution.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 24 min
FMR 43 Trails of Tears: raising awareness of displacement
Trails of Tears have arisen to draw attention and give legitimacy to multiple movements for fairness and justice, hoping to create a community of support strong enough to rectify a past injustice or prevent a future one.
Fr 09.08.2013
4 : 15 min
FMR 43 The arts in refugee camps: ten good reasons
Refugees' involvement in artistic activity: music, theatre, poetry, painting, often plays a powerful positive role in their ability to survive physically and even emotionally and spiritually.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 23 min
FMR 43 Crisis in Lebanon: camps for Syrian refugees?
Lebanon has absorbed the enormous Syrian influx but at a high cost to both refugees and Lebanese populations. Current humanitarian programmes can no longer cope and new approaches are needed.
Fr 09.08.2013
12 : 34 min
FMR 43 State fragility, displacement and development interventions
The development approach to displacement brings advantages not only in addressing the needs of refugees, IDPs and host communities but also in helping societies tackle the underlying aspects of fragility that may have caused the displacement.
Fr 09.08.2013
13 : 33 min
FMR 43 Psychiatric treatment with people displaced in or from fragile states
Psychiatrists working to assess psychological distress and mental health in fragile states, or with refugees from fragile states, need to adopt flexible approaches.
Fr 09.08.2013
14 : 13 min
FMR 43 Displacement in a fragile Iraq
The post-Saddam Iraqi state enjoys only limited support from the population, excludes significant sections of its people from power, suppresses the opposition and does not protect citizens from arbitrary arrests, and corruption is rampant.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 14 min
FMR 43 Was establishing new institutions in Iraq to deal with displacement a good idea?
The humanitarian, developmental and political consequences of decades of mass forced migration are part of the legacy that the current political leaders of Iraq need to address.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 47 min
FMR 43 The curious case of North Korea
Displacement and distress migration within and outside North Korea may be an indicator of state fragility but a reduction in numbers should not necessarily be read as a sign of improving conditions there.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 14 min
FMR 43 Data quality and information management in DRC
Forced migration creates special challenges to collecting data and monitoring responses in fragile states where infrastructure and systems are weak or non-existent.
Fr 09.08.2013
4 : 02 min
FMR 43 Refugees from Central American gangs
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are largely ignored by refugee agencies who underestimate transnational criminal organisation' abuses and powers of control, while overestimating national governments' ability and willingness to protect their citizens.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 33 min
FMR 43 Networked governance in Ecuador's border regions
In order to improve security for both Colombian forced migrants and Ecuadorians, an approach that takes advantage of governance networks can allow residents to negotiate access to resources and rights that they otherwise would not be able to enjoy.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 39 min
FMR 43 Surviving the odds: education, commerce and development among displaced Somalis
Private entrepreneurship and the disapora play important roles in supporting displaced people in fragile ungoverned situations. They are also valuable in helping those situations emerge from fragility.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 00 min
FMR 43 Flight, fragility and furthering stability in Yemen
Yemen is one of the world's most fragile states. Less well understood is how this context affects the vulnerability of refugees, IDPs and migrants themselves and what can be done to strengthen protection for them.
Fr 09.08.2013
16 : 58 min
FMR 43 Humanitarian responses in the protection gap
Often a combination of factors pushes people to leave their country, and the voluntary character of their departure remains debatable, challenging humanitarians both to meet needs and to adapt to changing categories of forced displacement.
Fr 09.08.2013
15 : 40 min
FMR 43 Post-disaster Haitian migration
Those who left Haiti in the chaotic aftermath of the 2010 earthquake did not generally find the same posture of solidarity and humanitarianism overseas that was apparent in the significant international assistance that followed the disaster.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 06 min
FMR 43 The 'phantom state' of Haiti
The fragile nature of the state had turned emigration into a major feature of Haitian life even before the earthquake displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Fr 09.08.2013
11 : 09 min
FMR 43 The displaced claiming their rights in fragile states
To date, displaced persons in fragile and conflict-affected states have had little success in claiming their rights for housing, land and property violations. Creative legal thinking and strategic litigation has the potential to change this.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 56 min
FMR 43 Can Refugee Cessation be seen as a proxy for the end of state fragility?
The cessation of refugee status results from a judgment that a sufficient change has occurred in the refugees' country of origin that they no longer require international protection.
Fr 09.08.2013
6 : 50 min
FMR 43 'Everyone for themselves' in DRC's North Kivu
While the international donor community has been trying to engage with DRC by partnering with the government to implement the New Deal for Aid Effectiveness for Fragile States, communities in DRC.
Fr 09.08.2013
14 : 23 min
FMR 43 Repeated displacement in eastern DRC
The provision of some basic assistance in places to which people flee makes this process slightly easier but in the absence of state-led protection, multiple displacement has become a defining feature of the Kivu conflict.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 26 min
FMR 43 Fragile states, collective identities and forced migration
Governance and the rule of law should be vital considerations in attempts to deal with forced migration in fragile states such as DRC.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 04 min
FMR 43 Fragile states and protection under the 1969 African Refugee Convention
Current practice in African states highlights both the potential and the limitations of the 1969 African Refugee Convention in providing protection to persons displaced from fragile states.
Fr 09.08.2013
12 : 47 min
FMR 43 Peace villages for repatriates to Burundi
Burundi's peace villages, which are intended both as models for reintegration and as centres of economic development, have encountered a number of problems which are related to the country's continued fragility as a state.
Fr 09.08.2013
10 : 08 min
FMR 43 application/pdf iconPDF audio/mpeg iconMP3 Liberia: local politics, state building and reintegration of populations
Interventions aiming to assist IDPs and refugees returning home in fragile states would do well to take note of the local political and economic contexts in the aftermath of war, because these deeply affect the reintegration of war-affected populations.
Fr 09.08.2013
9 : 37 min
FMR 43 Displaced populations and their effects on regional stability
A better understanding of state fragility, combined with improvements in policy and funding for displaced populations, is necessary to prevent the proliferation of further regional conflicts.
Fr 09.08.2013
7 : 57 min
FMR 43 How to engage constructively with fragile states
Donors have allocated increasing resources in fragile states to the reform and/or rebuilding of the architecture of the state, such as justice systems, the police and army, and the management of ministries in efforts to support stability.
Fr 09.08.2013
16 : 09 min
FMR 43 State fragility, refugee status and "survival migration"
State fragility demands the protection of people fleeing the omissions of states, whether due to states' unwillingness or to their inability to provide for their citizens' fundamental rights.
Fr 09.08.2013
13 : 42 min
FMR 43 From the Editors
From the editors.
Fr 09.08.2013
2 : 16 min
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