Feinstein International Center

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My internship in the Democratic Republic of Congo lasted from June 1st to August 12th 2004. I was attached to the Jesuit Refugee Services. Owing to the civil unrest that have besieged the Congo, I was stranded in Europe from 1st to 9th June and therefore did not arrive in Kinshasa until June 9th 2004. Fearing the outbreak of more hostilities I made an attempt to conduct my interviews speedily.

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Little is known about the short and long term effects of war on youth. Yet without an understanding of who is at risk of violence (and from whom), the factors that affect violence and acceptance, a sense of the long-term impacts of war violence, and a strong grasp of the factors that protect youth, how can we design more effective prevention, protection, rehabilitation and reintegration programs?

Scope and Contents Calls have been made recently for new approaches to the design and implementation of interventions aimed at achieving household food security; approaches that address more than just food availability by integrating actions enhancing food access and utilization as well. But what exactly should be integrated and how? This report represents a lessons learned assessment of an integrated agriculture, nutrition, and health intervention implemented in Malawi in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The...

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Conflict and crisis in Darfur has continued unabated since 2003. Whilst there has been a growing body of knowledge about how this has impacted on livelihoods, there has been much less focus on understanding how trade and markets - the lifeblood of Darfur's economy - have been affected. This report begins to address this gap between livelihoods research and the crisis' effects on trade and markets.

Scope and Contents This briefing paper is the first output from the LIVE project (Livelihoods, Insecurity and Value Chains Examination in Karamoja), a collaborative study with Save the Children in Uganda funded by USAID Food for Peace. Based on fieldwork from August 2010, the paper examines livelihoods, food security, and security in the northern Karamoja districts of Kotido and Kaabong, and seeks to understand the livelihood adaptations of communities and households to recent changes caused by internal...