Dear List Members,
This is the last update I will forward for 2000. I
hope you've found these postings useful, and I look
forward to hearing any suggestions that you might have
in the new year. Anyone attending IRAP in January can
provide your suggestions to me in person. Happy
holidays!
**Online Publications**
Agreement between the Government of the Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Government of
the State of Eritrea (12 Dec. 2000) -
http://www.usip.org/library/pa/eritrea_ethiopia/eritrea_ethiopia_12122000.html
"Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from
the Russian Federation" (Nov. 2000) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/country/cdr/russia1200.pdf
"Beyond security planning: towards a model of security
management (coping with the security challenges of the
humanitarian work)" (Dec. 2000) -
http://www.jha.ac/articles/a060.pdf
- Paper by Luis Enrique Eguren, posted on the Journal
of Humanitarian Assistance web site.
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union -
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2000/c_364/c_36420001218en00010022.pdf
- This is the final version of the Charter; the
previous address I referenced was for the draft
version (thanks to Bernie Hamilton for this URL!)
Dams and Development: A New Framework for
Decision-Making - The Report of the World Commission
on Dams - http://www.dams.org/report/
- Full-text available in English in PDF; summaries
available in German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Global Consultations -
http://www.unhcr.ch/issues/asylum/globalconsult/main.htm
- Two new articles from the UNHCR public information
service on asylum in Europe (Dec. 2000), and a paper
from the Division of International Protection on the
process to revise international protection.
Inroads: graduate journal of race, gender, ethnicity
and migration - http://www.inroads.umn.edu/
- New online journal; currently "soliciting articles
and works in progress which examine questions of
gender, race, ethnicity, and migration as these
intersect with as well as shape new technologies and
practices of representation."
International Studies Association Conference Papers -
https://wwwc.cc.columbia.edu/sec/dlc/ciao/isa/isa.html
(2000) and
https://wwwc.cc.columbia.edu/sec/dlc/ciao/isa/isa3.html
(1999).
**Events/Opportunities**
Ninth Annual International Conference on Conflict
Resolution: Sharing Tools for Personal/Global Harmony,
May 10-20, 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia -
http://ahpweb.org/cbi/icr.html
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Historical
Studies, University of Maryland, 2001-2002 -
http://www.inform.umd.edu/HIST/HistoryCenter/opportunities.html
- Applications being accepted for projects relating to
"political violence" ("comparing the causes,
strategies, consequences, and representations
of political violence across a large variety of
societies and time periods"); deadline is January 20,
2001.
Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic
Minorities in Twentieth Century Europe, May 25-27,
2001, Humboldt University, Berlin -
http://www.demographie.de/minorities
- See call for papers and registration information at
the a/m URL.
**Web Sites**
China Statistical Information Network -
http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/index.html
- Includes the full-text of the China Statistical
Yearbook (1999), indicators covering a variety of
sectors, and monthly economic data.
UN Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNet) -
http://unbisnet.un.org/
- Search for bibliographic references in the UN
library by author, title, subject, or UN number.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Historical
Topics - http://wlc.ushmm.org
- Focuses on the history of the Holocaust; see also
the "conscience" section at
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/ which includes links
to sites that document genocide, ethnic strife, human
rights violations.
**Publications in Print**
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Dianna J. Shandy, eds.,
"Rethinking Refuge and Displacement," Selected Papers
on Refugees and Immigrants, Volume 8, 2000,
Arlington, VA: Committee on Refugees and Immigrants,
American Anthropological Assoication.
- Includes articles on "detainment of Haitian refugees
at the Guantanamo Naval Base; Somali integration and
diasporic consciousness in Finland; Tibetan
immigration to the United States; nationality and
citizenship among Mexicans in the United States;
environmentally forced migrants in rural Bangladesh;
Operation Provide Refuge; Asylum Seekers' Centers in
the Netherlands; forced migration and return of
Kosovar Albanians; transnational research;
anthropology and the representations of recent
migrations from Afghanistan; anthropology of mobility;
and gender and wartime migration in Mozambique." (See
http://mason.gmu.edu/~cori/ for more info.)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Reports of
Orders, Decisions and Judgements 1995-1997 = Tribunal
Pénal International pour le Rwanda, Receuil des
ordonnances, décisions et arrets 1995-1997, Bruxelles:
Bruylant, 2000. ISBN 2-8027-1367-1. Publisher URL:
http://www.bruylant.be/
Moore, Jennifer, "From Nation State to Failed State:
International Protection from Human Rights Abuses by
Non-State Agents," Columbia Human Rights Law Review,
vol. 1, no. 31, pp. 82-121, Fall 1999. Publisher
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hrlr/journal.html
Elisa Mason
Information Officer, Forced Migration Portal Project
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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