Humanitarianism & War Project

	\|\|\|\| Status Report #16: October 7, 1994.
	This is a brief update on our undertaking since our last Status Report of July 8, 1994.
	CONTENTS:
	Recent Activities Case Studies Future Meetings New Partners Writing

	RECENT ACTIVITIES
	During the summer and early fall, the Project has served as a resource to a number of conferences and training events. In August, Thomas G. Weiss used the occasion of chairing a panel on "Evaluating the UN’s Agenda for Peace" at the 16^th World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Berlin to participate in a training program at the University t of Tubingen. The participants were academics from the former Soviet bloc learning to use materials in English for courses on the future of security within Europe, with particular reference to conflict management and humanitarian issues. He also consulted with Brown colleague John Mackinlay, now at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies at Garmish, Germany, regarding the humanitarian portions of an updated manual for soldiers on Peace Support Operations.
	In September, Weiss participated in two training events organized by the Austrian government at the Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Stadtschlaining. These included a Specialization Course in Humanitarian Aid, part of the Center’s civilian peace-keeping and peace-building training program, and the post-graduate program in peace studies. He also lectured on the UN’s role in civil wars at the 13^th Workshop on the Management of Field Coordination for Senior UN System Representatives in Torino, Italy, organized by the UN System Training Programme o fthe ILO’s International Training Center.
	Larry Minear, the Project’s other co-director, participated with a dozen non-governmental analysts in a Parallel National Intelligence Estimate on Global Humanitarian Emergencies, a one-day session in September in Washington. In a first-ever initiative, the National Intelligence Council, an advisory group to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, requested an independent assessment of humanitarian issues and comments on its own draft report from outside experts. Minear’s paper, "The International Relief System: A Critical Review," is attached.
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	CASE STUDIES
	Preparations are underway for the Project’s upcoming case studies on Rwanda and Georgia. Minear will be joining Project consultant Philippe Guillot of the Universite de Lyon in East Africa next week to review the crisis in Rwanda at its current stage, with particular attention to the roles played by UN and bilateral military forces. Findings will contribute to the Project’s ongoing work and become part of a book tentatively entitled Military and Civilian Humanitarianism, to be authored by Minear and published in late 1995 by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and in the Development Centre Studies Series.
	The Georgia case study will review Georgian civil strife involving both Abkhazia and Ossetia, with particular attention to the interface between humanitarian and political issues and the role of regional powers, in this instance Russia. Headed by consultant Prof. S. Neil MacFarlane of Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario), who laid the groundwork for the study with a trip to Tblisi in August, the team will include Minear and Weiss and a specialist on ethnic conflict within the former Soviet Union, Stephen Shenfield of the Watson’s Institute’s Center for Foreign Policy Development. Data gathering and interviews will continue through the winter and culminate in a four-person mission to the region in March. The case study will be published as an Occasional Paper by the Watson Institute in late summer 1995.
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	FUTURE MEETINGS
	Preparations continue for the small workshop to be held in Brussels and co-sponsored by the Universite de Louvain on 17-18 November on "Humanitarian Action and Regional Security in Liberia." Coordination in Brussels is in the capable hands of Prof. Debarati Sapir and Claudine Mission. Attendance has already been confirmed by a group of reflecting organizations participating in the international response to the civil war, including Liberians and Nigerians, government, and UN officials, and NGOs and the ICRC. The meeting is made possible in part by special grants from UNDP, Britain’s Overseas Development Administration, and the European Commission’s Humanitarian Office. A draft background document prepared by consultant Colin Scott, now circulating among participants and others, will be revised and published in an Occasional Paper early in 1995. Others wishing a copy of the draft for information and comment should contact Project Coordinator, Sue Miller.
	Preparations continue for the conference co-sponsored by the Humanitarianism and War Project and the World Peace Foundation for December 8-10 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on "Humanitarian Crises, Policy Making, and the Media: Strengthening Interaction in the Electronic Age." Our participation in this effort to bring together key members of three distinct communities–media professionals, policy makers, and humanitarian practitioners–is made possible by our grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The papers for the meeting will be consolidated in 1995 into a volume to be edited by WPF Executive Director Robert Rotberg and Weiss.
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	NEW PARTNERS
	We are pleased to announce five new participating organizations in the Project, bringing the total to date to more than thirty. They are the UN Volunteers, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Swedish Red Cross, Save the Children-US, as noted above, the OECD Development Centre.
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	WRITING
	We have completed a manuscript entitled Humanitarian Politics to be published early next year in the Foreign Policy Association’s Headline Series early for use by civic and educational organizations. The book Mercy Under Fire, which is intended for a wide public including academic readers and aid practitioners, is scheduled for publication next April. The French-language version of Humanitarian Action in Times of War: A Handbook for Practitioners, is now available from Lynne Rienner Publishers. Like the companion volume in Spanish, translation of the English text was made possible by a contribution from UNICEF.
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