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Conflict In Georgia: A Case Study in Humanitarian Action and Peacekeeping |
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Armed Conflict In Georgia: A Case Study in Humanitarian Action and Peacekeeping
(Occasional Paper 21)
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| The Project's first foray in an area relatively new to international humanitarian action—the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union—reviews three conflicts within Georgia that were associated with the collapse of the centrally planned Soviet economy there. These were between Georgians and Ossets, between Georgians and Abkhaz, and between Georgian supporters and opponents of former President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. | |
| The narrative is organized topically, moving from a description of the background of the various conflicts through an examination of the resulting humanitarian and peacekeeping activities and their interaction. The work of OSCE diplomats and human rights monitors in the South Ossetia conflict receives higher marks than that of UN and CIS diplomats and peacekeepers on the Abkhaz front. The problems presented to humanitarian agencies by blurring war-related need with Georgia's broader economic collapse are highlighted. The lack of impact of humanitarian work on easing the underlying conflicts and the fallout from the unresolved crises on humanitarian prospects are presented as something of a vicious circle. | |
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The study is based on visits to Georgia in August 1994 and March 1995 (including South Ossetia and Abkhazia) as well as on interviews conducted in Vienna, Moscow, Geneva, New York, and Washington. Recommendations include detaching humanitarian action more clearly from peacekeeping undertakings while at the same time encouraging greater consultation between the two sets of actors and higher priority to diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflicts. A review of the study that appeared in the International Review of Red Cross is found in Section 8, Selected Reviews of Project Publications.
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Humanitarian principles, humanitarian space, human rights, protection, security, institutional cultures, ethnic conflict, warfare, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, regional organizations, politicization, sovereignty, repatriation, reconstruction, relief-to-development continuum, funding, professionalism; Russia, Newly Independent States, USSR, Georgia, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Iran; UN, UN Security Council, DPA, DPKO, DHA, UNHCR, WFP, WHO, UNICEF, OSCE, European Union, ECHO, UNHCR, UNOMIG, CISPKF, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement.
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