The main topics that Aid Watch would like to develop
are the following :
- Forced displacements: the challenges of
a quantitative evaluation, the management of refugee camps, the
procedure for asylum or for care, the invisible flows of illicit
migration;
- War economies: a materialist and symbolic
analysis of predation, import-export, arms smuggling, money laundering,
remittances, performance of the transport and telecommunications
infrastructures, autarky or openness to the global economy;
- The relations between NGOs and the military
during peace operations: training, intelligence, the way the work
is shared, the diversity of professional cultures;
- Peace building and reconstruction: demobilization of the combatants,
rehabilitation of child-soldiers, consolidation of government
institutions, especially in the judiciary, etc.
- Justice and peace in the aftermath of war: independence of the
judges, conditions for amnesty, return of the refugees, problems
of compensation, in particular regarding land issues;
- The military, political, social and economical role of refugees
diasporas: transfers, oppositions in exile, links with the country
of origin, criminal potential;
- The strategies for the implementation of humanitarian programs:
conditions of involvement and withdrawal, follow-up after a program
has been stopped;
- Evaluating the aid: identification of conflicts of interests
between consultants, financial backers and NGOs, the outsiders’
intrusion (journalists, researchers, recipient populations), the
place left to independent critics that are constructive and eager
to point out problems without discrediting charitable motives.
