THIS IS ANOTHER in our series of reports designed to keep the stakeholders of the Humanitarianism and War Project and its increasingly wide circle of users current on our work. This report covers the period since November 16 1995.

Current and Upcoming Activities
New Contributors
Recent Publications
Access to Project Materials on Internet

Work is progressing on a case study on international involvement in Haiti during the decade beginning in 1986. Co-sponsored by the Project and the United Nations University, the research is being carried out by a 7-person team, headed by Dr. Robert Maguire, a recognized expert on Haiti who is on leave from the Inter-American Foundation. Other team members are Edwige Balutansky, a Haitian who heads Info-Services in Port-au-Prince; Jacques Fomerand of UN University; William O'Neill, a consultant to the National Coalition for Haitian Rights; Sarah Zaidi of the Center for Economic and Social Rights; and Project co-directors Larry Minear and Thomas G. Weiss. The team is supplementing an extensive array of interviews carried out in Haiti during January with discussions in New York, Washington, and Florida. The results, entitled Haiti Held Hostage: The Quest for Nationhood 1986-1996, will be published in 1996 in English, with French and Créole versions to follow.

During the coming months, the Project will give priority to two new case studies. One, reviewing the crisis in Chechnya, will be carried out by consultants Robert Seely and Gregory Hansen. A second, focusing on Nagorno-Karabakh, will involve a team headed by S. Neil MacFarlane. The former has been delayed from January until the security and political situation permits; the latter is scheduled for May-June.

We are pleased to announce that the Nordic Red Cross Societies, including the Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish national societies, have become contributors to Phase 2 of our Project. Joining other members of the Red Cross movement, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the American Red Cross, they bring to a total of seventeen the number of NGOs currently contributing to our work. The addition of the United Nations University as a contributor to the Project (noted above) brings the total of intergovernmental organizations involved in this Phase of activities to eight.

Various items have been published in recent months. Available for downloading is Armed Conflicts in Georgia: A Case Study in Humanitarian Action and Peacekeeping, by MacFarlane, Minear, and Stephen D. Shenfield. Also published was a paper entitled "New Opportunities and Dilemmas for Independent Agencies" presented by Minear at a conference held in June 1995 on the occasion of the Mennonite Central Committee's 75th anniversary. Copies of the full issue of the Conrad Grebel Review which reprinted the remarks of presenters and respondents are available from Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G6 CANADA. The Brookings Institution Occasional Papers series recently published a chapter by Jarat Chopra and Weiss, entitled "The United Nations and the Former Second World: Coping with Conflict." Also printed were op-eds by Weiss, "Balkans and the National Interest" and "Democracy Can't Last In Haiti if We Leave Now."

Two edited volumes are now available in printed form. Copies of Volunteers against Conflict , which contains introductory and concluding chapters by Minear and Weiss, may be obtained from the United Nations University Press and from UN bookstores. From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy, and Humanitarian Crises, edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Weiss, is available from the Brookings Institution and commercial bookstores.

Scheduled for publication in the next several months are Soldiers to the Rescue: Humanitarian Lessons from Rwanda by Minear and Philippe Guillot (OECD), UN Coordination in Complex Emergencies: Lessons from Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Rwanda by Antonio Donini (an Occasional Paper), and the Haiti volume mentioned above. The study by Minear, Weiss, and Colin Scott of the interaction among the media, policy-makers, and humanitarian organizations, The News Media, Civil War, and Humanitarian Action, will be published in late summer by Lynne Rienner Publishers (Cf. Status Report 20).

Publications by the Watson Institute, including the Occasional Paper series, are now available directly from the Internet. You may now download a copy of a recent monograph yourself rather than requesting an additional copy from us. Please also note that the Project itself may be contacted via the Internet at the e-mail address: H&Wproject@Brown.edu.