Dear List Members,
Below please find various online publications, new journal issues, and
updated or new web sites.
1. Online Publications
Independent International Commission on Kosovo: The Kosovo Report (October
23, 2000) - http://www.kosovocommission.org/reports/index.html
- Looks at the origins of the crisis and analyzes the action to intervene.
Available in both PDF and Text formats.
Public Health Reports, Volume 115, Issue 4 (July/August 2000) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/publhr/hdb/Volume_115/Issue_04/1150320.sgm.abs.html
- "Children and war," by BS Levy, pp. 320-325. Visitors can view the first
two pages of the article in PDF format online.
2. Journals
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 23, Number 6 (November 2000) -
http://fidelio.catchword.com/vl=57992740/cl=17/nw=1/rpsv/cw/routledg/0141987
0/contp1.htm
- Sample articles include "The manipulation of ethnicity: from ethnic
cooperation to violence and war in Yugoslavia," by Anthony Oberschall and
"Creating the conditions for peacemaking: theories of practice in ethnic
conflict resolution," by Marc Howard Ross.
International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 12, Issue 2 (July
2000) -http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/hdb/Volume_12/Issue_02
- Sample articles include "Particular Social Group: A Human Rights Based
Approach in Canadian Jurisprudence," by Krista Daley and Ninette Kelley;
"Sexuality and Refugee Status in Australia," by Kristen L. Walker; and "The
Refugee Status Determination Procedure in Poland," by Jacek Chlebny and
Wojciech Trojan.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Volume 26, Number 3 (July
2000) -http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/1369183x.html
- Sample articles include "Rights and ratios? Evaluating the relationship
between social rights and immigration," by Brian K. Gran and Elizabeth J.
Clifford, and "Institutional plurality: a way out of the Basque conflict?"
by Hans Van Amersfoort and Jan Mansvelt Beck.
3. Web Sites
50 years of the European Convention on Human Rights (Council of Europe) -
http://press.coe.int/ECHR50/Default.asp?L=2
- The anniversary was officially on November 4. This site makes available
press releases, articles, and the text of the Convention, and is available
in both English and French.
Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre -
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/law/hrlc.htm
- Recently revised; includes a call for papers for the forthcoming
University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Review, info. on courses and
projects, and descriptions of the Centre's various publications.
Prague Watchdog - http://www.watchdog.cz
- Reports on human rights, humanitarian aid, and media issues in the
northern Caucasus; funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and the
Open Society Institute.
Regard (Economic and Social Research Council) - http://www.regard.ac.uk/
- Recently redesigned; searchable database that can be used to identify
social science research funded by the ESRC. Records often include an
abstract as well as links to the award institutions. A basic search on
"refugees" produced 80 hits.
Elisa Mason
Consultant, Forced Migration Portal Project
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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