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Action in the Caucasus: A Guide for Practitioners |
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TITLE: Humanitarian Action in the Caucasus: A Guide for Practitioners
(Occasional Paper 32) (note: also available in Russian as Gumanitarnye Dejstivia
na Kavkase: Spravochnik dlya Prakticheskovo Rabotnika)
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ABSTRACT |
| This Guide is designed to provide humanitarian practitioners in the Caucasus with essential background information regarding the political, military, social, and cultural setting in which their activities take place. It draws together lessons identified in earlier studies on Georgia (OP 21), Nagorno-Karabakh (OP 25), and Chechnya (OP 26). Appendixes provide a chronology of major events in the region and, from the work of the Local Capacities for Peace Project, a framework for considering the impact of aid on conflict. | |
| A preface to the Russian edition by translator Olga Fadina comments on the difficulties she experienced in the translation process. She expresses the hope that as humanitarian action becomes more familiar and accepted in the Russian Federation, the Russian language will find more adequate terms to express humanitarian concepts. | |
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A consolidation of the findings and recommendations from the Caucasus research is presented in Waiting for Peace, an article in Disasters (see separate entry). Drawing upon the Guide and the discussions held in Russia and the North and South Caucasus to promote its use, the article includes several tables, including one listing the various "disengagement indicators" identified by the agencies. Three reviews of the Chechnya study are reprinted in
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KEYWORDS |
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humanitarian principles, human rights, humanitarian space, warfare, security, terms of engagement, assistance by remote control, professionalism, synergies, reconstruction, regional organizations, local institutions, civil society, relief-to-development continuum, funding; Caucasus, Georgia, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nargorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Russian Federation, CIS; UNHCR, OSCE, UNOMIG, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement.
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