A Safer Future draws on Oxfam's experience of working with communities caught up in armed conflict in many countries around the world and makes recommendations for urgent action by governments that would reduce the risk of war and protect civilian lives. It looks specifically at changes in international policies and pre-emptive action by the international community which could prevent some wars occurring.

Ed Cairns
Edmund Cairns is Research Coordinator of Oxfam International's humanitarian campaign.

International Institutions: For better or worst

Gil, Juan Manuel

Aguilera, Andrés

Reflexión Política, Vol. 19 (2017), Iss. 37 P.6

https://doi.org/10.29375/01240781.2747 [Citations: 0]

The Impact of Armed Civil Conflict on Household Welfare and Policy Responses

Justino, Patricia

(2009)

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1425043 [Citations: 13]

Principles, Politics, and Humanitarian Action

Weiss, Thomas G.

Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 13 (1999), Iss. P.1

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00322.x [Citations: 88]

Warlords in International Relations

The Arms Trade and Militarized Actors in Internal Conflict

Cooper, Neil

1999

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27688-2_2 [Citations: 1]

Humanitäre Intervention

Zum Formwandel bewaffneter Konflikte

Chojnacki, Sven

2009

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91427-5_7 [Citations: 1]

Labor Market Effects of Migration-Related Supply Shocks: Evidence from Internal Refugees in Colombia

Calderón, Valentina

Ibáñez, Ana M.

(2009)

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1433793 [Citations: 14]

Conflict resolution and peacekeeping: Critiques and responses

Woodhouse, Tom

International Peacekeeping, Vol. 7 (2000), Iss. 1 P.8

https://doi.org/10.1080/13533310008413816 [Citations: 4]

ABC's, 123's, and the Golden Rule: The Pacifying Effect of Education on Civil War, 1980?1999

THYNE, CLAYTON L.

International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 50 (2006), Iss. 4 P.733

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2006.00423.x [Citations: 108]

The Consequences of Rivalry

Metelits, Claire M.

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 62 (2009), Iss. 4 P.673

https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912908322413 [Citations: 24]

Labour market effects of migration-related supply shocks: evidence from internal refugees in Colombia

Calderón-Mejía, Valentina

Ibáñez, Ana María

Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 16 (2016), Iss. 3 P.695

https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbv030 [Citations: 38]

Violence Against Civilians in Civil Wars: Looting or Terror?

AZAM, JEAN-PAUL

HOEFFLER, ANKE

Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 39 (2002), Iss. 4 P.461

https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343302039004006 [Citations: 140]

Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study

Transboundary Conservation in the Virunga-Bwindi Region

Lanjouw, Annette

2008

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70721-1_13 [Citations: 0]

Incentives and Survival in Violent Conflicts

Lavie, Moshik

Muller, Christophe

(2011)

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1947512 [Citations: 1]

The Impact of Armed Civil Conflict on Household Welfare and Policy

Justino, Patricia

IDS Working Papers, Vol. 2011 (2011), Iss. 384 P.1

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2040-0209.2011.00384_2.x [Citations: 10]

Building Partnerships in the Face of Political and Armed Crisis

Lanjouw, Annette

Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Vol. 16 (2003), Iss. 3-4 P.89

https://doi.org/10.1300/J091v16n03_05 [Citations: 2]

Sharing a universal ethic: The principle of humanity in war

Slim, Hugo

The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 2 (1998), Iss. 4 P.28

https://doi.org/10.1080/13642989808406759 [Citations: 7]

Looting and Conflict between Ethnoregional Groups

AZAM, JEAN-PAUL

Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 46 (2002), Iss. 1 P.131

https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002702046001008 [Citations: 56]

On the Links Between Violent Conflict and Household Poverty: How Much do We Really Know?

Justino, Patricia

(2008)

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1116265 [Citations: 8]

Regeneration of War-Torn Societies

Raising the Costs of Conflict, Lowering the Price of Peace: Demilitarisation after Post-modern Conflicts

Cooper, Neil

2000

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62835-3_4 [Citations: 0]

On the Links between Violent Conflict and Chronic Poverty: How Much Do We Really Know?

Justino, Patricia

(2006)

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1753644 [Citations: 21]

The ‘New Wars’ Debate: A Historical Perspective is Needed

Newman, Edward

Security Dialogue, Vol. 35 (2004), Iss. 2 P.173

https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010604044975 [Citations: 98]