ICT4Peace bibliography

 

 

• Abiew, Francis Kofi and Tom Keating (2004) Defining a Role for Civil Society: Humanitarian NGOs and Peacebuilding Operations (in Tom Keating and W. Andy Knight, eds., Building Sustainable Peace (Alberta and Tokyo: The University of Alberta Press and the United Nations University Press, 2004))

• Adelman, Howard (1998) Humanitarian and Conflict-Oriented Early Warning: A Historical Background Sketch (in K. van Walraven, ed., Early Warning and Conflict Prevention: Limitations and Possibilities, Netherlands: Kluwever Law International)

• Annan, Kofi (1999) Facing the Humanitarian Challenge. Towards a Culture of Prevention, (Introduction to the Secretary-General’s Annual Report on the Work of the Organisation)

• Bais, Karolien and Mijnd Huijser (2005) The Profit of Peace: Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Regions, (Greenleaf Publishing)

• Barry, Jane and Anna Jefferys (2002) A Bridge Too Far: aid agencies and the military in humanitarian response (Humanitarian Practice Network, London) http://www.odihpn.org/documents/networkpaper037.pdf

• Brahimi, Lakhdar et. al (2000)  Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, A/55/305-S/2000/809 (New York: United Nations General Assembly, August 21, 2000) http://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/55/a55305.pdf

• Carothers, Thomas (1999) Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve  (Washington DC: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Participatory Design, http://www.cpsr.org/issues/pd/

• Crisis Management Initiative(2004) Security –the Common Denominator for Connectivity: Conference on Crisis Management and Information Technology, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 3-6 November 2004 (Helsinki: CMI) http://www.itcm.org/pdf/ITCM_conference_report_2004.pdf

• Crocker, Chester A., Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall (1999) Multiparty Mediation and the Conflict Cycle (in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds., Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a  Complex World  (Washington DC: United States Institute for Peace))

• Currion, Paul (2001) Humanitarian Information Centres: Establishing Coherent Approaches to Field-Based Information Management in Emergencies (a report commissioned by the Field Information Support (FIS) Unit of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)) http://www.reliefweb.int/symposium/InfoCenters.htm 

• Dartnell, Michael (2003) Information Technology and the Web Activism of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) – Electronic Politics and New Global Conflict, (in, Robert Latham, ed., Bombs and Bandwidth, 2003)

• de Zeeuw, Jeroen (2001) Building Peace in War-Torn Societies: From Concept to Strategy (Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’ Conflict Research Unit)

• Druke, Luise (1989) UNHCR and the Need for “Early Warning” (UNHCR Refugee Abstracts, 8, December 1989), http://www.luisedruke.com/luise/unhcr_need_early_warning.htm

• Easterly, William (2002) The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press)

• Eide, Espen Barth,  Anja Therese Kaspersen, Randolph Kent and Karin von Hippel (2005) Report on Integrated Missions: Practical Perspectives and Recommendations (OCHA)

• Hattotuwa, Sanjana (2004) Untying the Gordian Knot: ICT for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding http://www.info-share.org/content/docs/untying_the_gordian_knot.doc 

• Hick, Steven, Edward F. Halpin and Eric Hoskins (2000) Human Rights and the Internet (New York: St. Martin’s Press)

• Hummelink, Marcel (2002)  Evaluation of IT Humanitarian Platforms and Their Possible Utilisation as Coordination Instruments (paper presented at the ECHO-Partners Annual Conference, Brussels, 14 & 15 October 2002) http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/pdf_files/2002_partners/information.pdf

• International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2004) Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2005) World Disasters Report2005 – Focus on Information (Eurospan, London) http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2005/

• International Telecommunication Union, Teledensity Main Telephone Lines per 100 Inhabitants http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/com3/focus/72404_v7.xls Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit (2005) Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit Overview - Note by the Secretariat (OCHA) http://ochaonline.un.org/GetBin.asp?DocID=3365

• Knightley, Philip (2003) The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War II (Andre Deutsch Ltd)

• Kristof, Nicholas (2005) All Ears for Tom Cruise, All Eyes on Brad Pitt (New York Times, July 26 2005)

• Krummenacher, Heinz and Susanne Schmeidl (2001) Practical Challenges in Predicting Violent Conflict FAST: An Example of a Comprehensive Early-Warning Methodology (SwissPeace)  http://www.swisspeace.org/publications/wp/working paper34.pdf

• Lederach, John Paul (1997) Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies  (Washington DC: United States Institute for Peace)

• Lehmann, Ingrid A. (1999) Peacekeeping and Public Information: Caught in the Crossfire  (London: Frank Cass)

• Lund, Michael S. (1996) Preventing Violent Conflicts: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy  (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press)

• Macrae, Joanna and Nicholas Leader (2000) Shifting Sands: the search for ‘coherence’ between political and humanitarian responses to complex emergencies  (Humanitarian Practice Network, London) http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/hpgreport8.pdf

• Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (2003) Contribution of the International Organisation of Francophonie to the World Summit on the Information Society (Rabat Declaration)  (Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie) http://smsi.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/declaration_rabat_ang.pdf

• Price Monroe E. and Mark Thompson, eds. (2002) Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press)

• Power, Samantha (2003) A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (New York: Perennial)

• Rotberg, Robert I. (1996) Conclusions: NGOs, Early Warning, Early Action, and Preventive Diplomacy, in Rotberg, ed., Vigilance and Vengeance: NGOs Preventing Ethnic Conflict in Divided Societies (Washington D.C and Cambridge, MA.: The Brookings Institution Press and the World Peace Foundation) v. d. Schulenburg, Michael (2005) OSCE’s Management Reforms and IRMA (2002-2005): Final Report (Vienna: Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe)

• SIPRI (2004) SIPRI Yearbook 2004: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

• Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (2004 Bill to Parliament concerning a credit facility for measures relating to conflict transformation and the promotion of human rights (2004–2007) (Bern, EDA) http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/e/home/foreign/humsec.html

• Union of International Associations (2005) Yearbook of International Organisations: Statistics, Visualizations and Patterns, Volume 5 (Brussels: UIA)  http://www.uia.org/organizations/home.php

• Vitali, Fabio (2004) Metadata for OCHA (OCHA internal communication)
• Warkentin, Craig (2001) Reshaping World Politics: NGOs, the Internet, and  Global Civil Society (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers)
• Wenger, Andreas and Daniel Möckli (2003) Conflict Prevention: The Untapped Potential of the Business Sector (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers)
• World Summit on the Information Society (2003) Declaration of Principles  and Plan of Action http://www.itu.int/wsis/
• World Summit on the Information Society - Civil Society Plenary (2003) Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs: Civil Society Declaration to the World Summit on the Information Society, http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/civil-society-declaration.pdf

 

 

 

 

Other academic research

 

 

• Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, fleshed out the larger framework of ICT4Peace as part of his post-graduate studies in Conflict Resolution. His pioneering work can be found here and here.