Humanitarian aid workers increasingly remain present in contexts of violence and are
injured, kidnapped, and killed as a result. Since 9/11 and in response to these dangers, aid …

It is increasingly recognised that informal actors, including chiefs, are dominant providers of
services and need to be factored into overwhelmingly state‐focused programmes. This …

Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra
Leone undertakes a deep contextual analysis of the reform of the country's security and …

Abstract During Southern Sudan's second period of civil war, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) provided almost all of the region's public services and greatly …

» Frieden schaffen «ist das gemeinsame große Ziel vieler internationaler Akteure in Kriegs-
und Krisengebieten. In der Praxis sind sie jedoch mit unterschiedlichsten Aufgaben betraut …

Refugee camps, now synonymous with the refugee experience, often house internally
displaced people, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. Across the globe, refugee …

In the car park next to a disused swimming pool in the United Kingdom Department for
International Development's (DFID) Freetown compound, white four-wheel drives pass in …

Somalia has existed for nearly twenty years without a stable government. Attempts by
external powers to intervene internally to provide security or build a state have failed. An …

This thesis is a case study of the communication practices of Woza Moya, a small-scale non-
governmental organization (NGO) in eastern South Africa, and addresses how NGOs …