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Dear List Members, Below please find references to new online publications, new issues of journals/newsletters, events and opportunities, and web sites. **Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers. Cut and paste each line of the URL, if this happens.** **Online Publications & Data** Armed Conflict 1946-2001 - http://www.prio.no/cwp/armedconflict/ - Dataset available from PRIO and Uppsala on 225 armed conflicts. Dealing with media: a practical guide - http://www.eldis.org/static/doc10035.htm (text is in PDF) - "Practical guide aimed at southern NGOs working in reproductive health." International Legal Research - http://www.llrx.com/cgi-bin/llrx.cgi?function=browsetopic2&id=16 - This section of the LLRX web site provides access to guides that explain how to conduct research on different national legal systems; many of the resources described are available online. World Development Report 2003 - http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/text-17926/ - Focus is on sustainable development. **Journals/Newsletters** Ethnography, vol. 3, no. 1 (Sept. 2002) - http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/j0300v03i03.html (contents and abstracts) - Includes following articles: M. Agier, "Between war and city : Towards an urban anthropology of refugee camps"; Z. Bauman, "In the lowly nowherevilles of liquid modernity : comments on and around Agier"; L. Malkki, "News from nowhere : mass displacement and globalized 'problems of organization'". The Political Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 4 (Oct. 2002) - http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0032-3179&src=arc&v id=73&iid=4 (contents and abstracts) - Issue includes article by B. Nicholson, "The wrong end of the telescope: Economic migrants, immigration policy, and how it looks from Albania." Refugees Magazine, no. 128 (Sept. 2002) - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=MEDIA&id=3d9ac1b2 4&page=publ (in PDF) - Focus is on the Somali Bantu. **Events & Opportunities** Advancing the Right to Health through Litigation and Lobbying - http://www.phruk.net/page.php?domain_name=phruk.net&viewpage=HR%20Course - A Physicians for Human Rights-UK ten week evening course, Thursdays 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., October 3 to December 12 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; course instructors are Bernie Hamilton and Dr. Peter Hall. CRFMS Conference on "Forced Migration in Southeastern Europe: Challenges & Responses," 24-26 October 2002, Ohrid, Macedonia - http://www.crfms.org.mk/ - See "News" section for more info. ELENA International Course on the application of Art. 1C and Art. 1F of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 17-19 January 2003, Korsor, Denmark - http://www.ecre.org/about/elenacourse.shtml - Apply by 22 Nov. Global Development Forum - http://www.global-development-forum.org/GDF/pages/index2.htm - Offers weekly debates throughout October on various important development issues. International Conference on Globalization, Justice, and the Trafficking of Women and Children, 25-25 October 2002, University of Washington-Seattle, U.S. - http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Conferences/icgjtwc.html **Web Sites** HURIDOCS - http://www.huridocs.org/ - Re-designed, re-structured web site. The Economics of Civil War, Crime and Violence - http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/conflict/ - Re-designed and updated web site. Elisa Mason Information Manager, Forced Migration Online Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources.