Dear List Members,
Happy New Year to everyone! Below please find references to new online
publications, journal issues, events & opportunities, and web sites.
Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers.
Cut and paste, if this happens.
**Online Publications**
Economics of Civil War, Crime, and Violence -
http://econ.worldbank.org/projects/library.php?sp=3102&st
- New reports from the a/m World Bank project. Includes a set of papers
published in a Special issue of Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 46, no.
1 (February 2002).
Planning considerations for international involvement in post-Taliban
Afghanistan (Dec. 2001) - http://www.jha.ac/articles/a075.htm
- Article by Jarat Chopra, Jim McCallum, and Alexander Thier posted on the
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance.
Solutions Not Imminent for Afghan Displaced and Refugees -
http://www.refugees.org/news/press_releases/2001/Afghan121001.cfm
- Article by Hiram Ruiz of the U.S. Committee for Refugees.
What the Professionals Know: The Trafficking of Children Into, and Through,
the UK for Sexual Purposes (Nov. 2001) -
http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/resources/Children.PDF
**Journals**
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3 (2001) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refqtl/hdb/Volume_20/Issue_03/
- Focuses on the 1951 Convention.
Refugees Magazine, no. 125 (Jan. 2002) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=MEDIA&id=3c35b88c
5&page=publ
- Focuses on September 11 and its global ramifications. Note: If this page
does not display correctly, try clicking on the "refresh" button. In PDF
format.
**Events & Opportunities**
ASILforum - http://www.asil.org/forum.htm
- Opportunity to join new listserve on international law.
M.A. in Understanding and Securing Human Rights -
http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/
**Web Sites**
Asylum Support - http://www.asylumsupport.info/
- Re-designed site. "Provides information concerning the support services
available for people seeking asylum in the UK, particularly relating to the
work of the National Asylum Support Service (NASS)."
European Migration Information Network -
http://www.emin.geog.ucl.ac.uk/research/
- A research directory with info. on organizations, individuals and projects
on international migration.
Interportal.ch - http://www.interportal.ch
- Focuses on international cooperation and development. "Interportal.ch
aims to enable a wide range of groups to exchange varied information and to
network by providing up-to-the-minute news, background reports, as well as
campaign and event announcements."
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (PAML) - http://paml.net/
- Use this directory to locate relevant e-mail discussion lists.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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