Preventive Measures
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Preventive Measures

Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

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eBook - ePub

Preventive Measures

Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

About this book

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening regional security and requiring major inputs of humanitarian assistance. They also may pose long-term and costly challenges of rebuilding shattered governments and societies. A vital policy question is whether failures can be diagnosed far enough in advance to facilitate effective international efforts at prevention or peaceful transformation. This volume of original essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges their effectiveness according to various models. Top contributors offer answers along with analyses as they move from early warning to early response in their policy recommendations.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Preventive Measures: An Overview
  7. 1 - A Risk Assessment Model of Ethnopolitical Rebellion
  8. 2 - The State Failure Project: Early Warning Research for U.S. Foreign Policy Planning
  9. 3 - Indicator Development: Issues in Forecasting Conflict Escalation
  10. 4 - Early Warning Indicators of Forced Migration
  11. 5 - Early Warning of Humanitarian Crises: Sequential Models and the Role of Accelerators
  12. 6 - Dynamic Data for Conflict Early Warning
  13. 7 - Cluster Analysis as an Early Warning Technique for the Middle East
  14. 8 - Timely Conflict Risk Assessments and the PANDA Project
  15. 9 - A Pattern Recognition Approach to Conflict Early Warning
  16. 10 - Early Warning of Environmentally Caused Conflicts
  17. 11 - An Expert System for Assessing Vulnerability to Instability
  18. 12 - The FUGI Model as a Global Early Warning System for Refugees
  19. 13 - Human Rights Abuses and Arms Trafficking in Central Africa
  20. 14 - FAST: A Pilot Study for an Early Warning System for the Swiss Foreign Ministry
  21. 15 - The Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture
  22. 16 - The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Famine Early Warning System
  23. 17 - The Humanitarian Early Warning System: From Concept to Practice
  24. 18 - ReliefWeb: An International Information Management Tool
  25. 19 - The Role of Early Warning in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
  26. 20 - Toward Response-Oriented Early Warning Analysis
  27. 21 - Information Sharing and Early Warning
  28. 22 - Early Warning: An Action Agenda
  29. References
  30. List of Open Access Early Warning Projects
  31. Index
  32. About the Contributors

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