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Refugee Participation Network 1996, No. 21

Contents: 1. The 'It's too theoretical' syndrome by Dr Eftihia Voutira; 2. Education: the least of UNHCR's priorities? UNHCR responds; 3. Combining research with educational intervention by Dr Heloisa Szymanski; 4. Participatory planning with disaster victims: Experience from Maharashtra, India by Meera Kaul Shah; 5. Rehabilitating the host environment a participatory approach to forestry intervention by Charles O Nyandiga; 6. Education and refugees in Spain: an overview by Dr Agustin Velloso; 7. What's schooling for?

Do study grants help refugees find jobs?

The study was conducted in 1998-99 with the main aim of establishing whether or not there was likely to be differences in the education, training and employment attainments between refugees who received educational grants and those who did not receive grants.

Mainstreaming risk reduction: challenges for education and training

Paper prepared for conference on "Risk, Sustainable Development and Disasters: Perspectives from the South," Harare, Zimbabwe, February 1999. [note: page 8 is missing]

Information technology and peace support operations: relationship for the new millennium

This report explores issues and initiatives raised during the "Challenges of Peace Keeping and Peace Support into the 21st Century" seminar series, which focused on the application of information technology (IT) in peace support operations... To set the context for the development and integration of IT in peace support operations [PSOs], this report begins with two brief sections addressing the historic development of IT and information operations (IOs), respectively; it then describes their role in peace operations.

Children in focus: a manual for participatory research with children

A training manual for preparing researchers who plan to work with children. Covers topics ranging from ethical considerations in sample selection to data presentation.

Focus on refugee children: a handbook for training field refugee workers in social and community work

This book is in two parts: a resource book which provides the theoretical background, and training materials. The parts can be used together or separately.

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