Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 4 Issue 1

Conflict today and its demands on international society

M. Harper

Assumes acceptance of the argument that, as the world has become amere village owing to modern communications systems, trading patternsand the like, it is no longer possible for…

Working with communities to reduce levels of conflict: “spot reconstruction”

F.C. Cuny, V. Tanner

Recent experience in many conflict areas has shown thatreconstruction and development assistance can be used to support peaceinitiatives before a final resolution to conflict is…

Rehabilitation and reconstruction of Afghanistan: a challenge for Afghans, NGOs and the UN

S. Barakat, A. Strand

Owing to the nature of their funding, hardly any NGO projects inAfghanistan have been long term or geared to the future development ofthe country. “Donor fatigue” and the fact…

Towards rehabilitation: building trust in Afghanistan

J. Leslie

Based on the experience of five years of work in the midst of theongoing civil war in Afghanistan, outlines a number of ideas aboutinvolving communities in measures to provide…

Rebuilding Sarajevo

J. Rowland

Sarajevo is no longer the city it was and will, over the next fewyears, have to find a new role for itself. Based on a presentation atthe Rebuilding Sarajevo Workshop, held in…

Widening horizons in post‐war reconstruction

R. Green

In Britain in 1945, the politics of peace steered reconstructiontowards a static socio‐economic base from which stemmed many laterplanning and social problems. Britain had emerged…

Nursing in the aftermath of disaster: orphanage relief work in Romania

D. Paton, C. Purvis

Disaster relief workers experience psychological and physical needsas a direct consequence of their disaster involvement. While this impacthas been acknowledged, relatively little…

Positive reactions following emergency and disaster responses

C. Moran, E. Colless

Firefighters completed a questionnaire which examined both positiveand negative reactions following major call‐outs. Positive reactionswere more frequently checked than negative…