Publications Round-Up: Forced Evictions/Angola, Forced Migration/Africa, Human Security, Poverty & Conflict, Reconstruction

References to the following recently released publications were noted in various current awareness services, including Amnesty International USA's RSS feed, the Ginn Weblog, If You Only Read One Thing This Week... blog, ReliefWeb's document library, and the Scout Report.

Angola - Lives in ruins: forced evictions continue (Amnesty International, Jan. 2007) [text]

Forced Migration and the Failure of Civilian Protection in Africa: A Way Forward? (KAIPTC, Dec. 2006) [text]

Human Security Brief 2006 (Human Security Centre, Dec. 2006) [access]
- Updates data provided in the 2005 Human Security Report and discusses two new conflict datasets.

Poverty and Civil War: What Policymakers Need to Know (Brookings, Dec. 2006) [text]

Reconstruction National Integrity System Surveys (TIRI, Jan. 2007) [access]
- These country reports were undertaken to evaluate the impact of post-conflict reconstruction assistance. The surveys were conducted in Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo, Mozambique, Palestine, Sierra Leone and Lebanon.

What Really Works in Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States (Wilson International Center) [access]
- New occasional paper series.

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