Humanitarianism & War Project

	\|\|\|\| Status Report #13: February 22, 1994.
	CONTENTS:
	1994 Conferences and Presentations Publications Future Activities

	1994
	The year 1994 marks the beginning of a new chapter for the Humanitarianism and War Project. We are building on the momentum established during the initial three years (1991-93) to begin a second phase (1994-96).
	For the coming three years, we have identified four priority activities. (1) We will continue to monitor ongoing conflicts already reviewed and will conduct additional research in several conflicts not yet studied (e.g. Liberia and the Former Soviet Union). (2) We will continue to publish case studies, journal articles, and books for audiences of practitioners, policy-makers, academics, and the concerned international public. (3) We will begin to examine the roles of the media in humanitarian crises. (4) We will work to disseminate project findings through participation in training events, conferences, and other meetings. We attach great importance to the last point, given the useful data now available to us a result of more than one thousand interviews conducted to date. Reactions to these priorities are welcome.
	With the launching of Phase 2 of our project, we are also expanding the list of those financially supporting our work. We are pleased to announce contributions from four new cooperating organizations: the International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Orthodox Christian Charities, the U.S. Institute for Peace, and World Vision,. A number of other agencies are also considering affiliating themselves with our work for the first time. Several organizations which supported Phase 1 have made additional contributions to our efforts: Catholic Relief Services, the Danish Refugee council, the Lutheran World Federation, the Mennonite Central Committee, UNICEF, UNDP, and USAID. We encourage others to renew their support as well, The total number of contributors as of the present stands at 27.
	As Phase 2 gets under way, we are also making some changes in location and administration. Effective April 1, we will be consolidating our offices, currently at the Refugee Policy Group (RPG) in Washington and at Brown University’s Watson Institute in Providence, into a single office located at Brown. Phase 2 will be sponsored by the Watson Institute, with RPG continuing to provide substantive input, We wish to express our appreciation to Dennis Gallagher, RPG Executive Director, for his support to date. We anticipate close and continuing collaboration around shared interests in the future.
	We are enclosing a revised one-page overview of our project that reflects these various changes that you may wish to share with colleagues, as well as an updated list of publications associated with our project.
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	CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
	We continue to serve as resources for discussions of humanitarian issues. Larry Minear made a presentation in December in Atlanta, Georgia on ways to reshape CARE’s work in the light of global trends. Also in December, an international group of specialists met in Providence to discuss a forthcoming volume, The United Nations and Civil Wars, edited by Thomas G. Weiss, with assistance from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, on the nature of multifaceted UN peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
	In January Weiss presented a paper on" Regional Organizations, the United Nations and Human Security" at a session in San Jose, Costa Rica organized by the Center for Peace and Reconciliation of the Arias Foundation and the Academic Council on the United Nations System. In February, Minear made a presentation on humanitarian considerations in peacekeeping operations at a US State Department Seminar for policy-makers. Minear and Weiss also addressed US NGOs at an interAction workshop on "Humanitarian Intervention and Military/Humanitarian Cooperation." Minear was interviewed on a national U.S. television program on Humanitarian Tasks for the Military, (Videotapes are available form America’s Defense Monitor, 1500 Massachusetts Avenue,N.W.,Washington, DC 20005).
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	PUBLICATIONS
	We are enclosing a press release and a copy of our study, Humanitarian Actions in the former Yugoslavia:The U.N.’s Role , 1991-93. We welcome your comments. We are also attaching the following project-related publications that have appeared since our last status report in early December:
	--"The NGOs in the Post-Cold War Era," by Minear, from the November 29 issue of Monday Developments, the newsletter of the professional association of U.S. NGOs, interAction;
	--"Humanitarian Intervention in a New World Order," by Minear, in NGOs and Refugees published by the Danish Center for Human Rights, a Festschrift in honor of the Executive Director of the Danish Refugee Council, Arne Piel Christensen;
	--"Intervention: Whither the United Nations?," by Weiss, from the current Washington Quarterly;
	--"Wanted: New Chief for UN Humanitarian-Aid Program," by Minear and Weiss, from the January 10 edition of the Christian Science Monitor.
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	FUTURE ACTIVITIES
	Top priority is being given for the moment to completing several major writing projects. In addition, Weiss will be attending by the Stanley Foundation, the Naval War College, the European Community Humanitarian Office, and the International Studies Association.
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