Table of Contents

Preface: Deborah Eade 1. Relief agencies and moral standing in war: principles of hunanity, neutrality, impartiality, and solidarity - Hugo Slim 2. The humanitarian responsibilities of the United Nations Security Council: ensuring the security of the people - Juan Somavia 3. For better? For worse? Humanitarian aid in conflict - David Bryer and Edmund Cairns 4. Dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonising Bosnia - Michel Chossundovsky 5. Non-neutral Humanitaranism: NGOs and the Rwanda crisis - Andy Storey 6. Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future - Elizabeth Lira 7. Assisting survivors of war and atrocity: notes on 'psychosocial' issues for NGO workers - Derek Summerfield 8. Tensions in the psychological discourse: implications for the planning of interventions with war-affected populations - Alastair Ager Papers from a Symposium 1. Building Bridges in southern Africa:conflict, reconstruction and reconciliation in times of change. 2. Sustainable peace-building in the south: experience from Latin America - Jenny Pearce 3. Translation in El Salvador: a multi-layered process - Martha Tompson 4. Rwanda: beyond 'ethnic conflict' - Anne Macinosh 5. Reconstruction and reconciliation: emergeing from transition - Graeme Simpson 6. Collective memory and the process of recociliation and reconstruction - Wiseman Chirwa 7. Reconciliation: the role of truth commissions and alternative ways of healing - Noel Muchenga Chicuecue 8. Reconciliation in Zimbabwe: real or illusion? - Val Ingham-Thorpe 9. Physical, psycological, and political displacement in Angola and Mozambique - Francisco Tunga Alberto 10. Child Soldiers: the Experience of the Mozambican Association for Public Health [AMOSAPU] Viriato Castelo-Branco 11. Training for Peace - Glenda Caine 12. Change and continuity: the challenge of Transition - Deborah Eade 13. Conflict, Reconstruction, and reconciliation: reciprecol lessons for NGOs in Southern Africa and Central America - Martha Thompson Annotated bibliography

About the Author

Deborah Eade was Editor-in-Chief of Development in Practice from 1991 to 2010, prior to which she worked for 10 years in Latin America. She is now an independent writer on development and humanitarian issues, based near Geneva.