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Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources (WSP Occasional Paper No. 3) by Birgitte Sorensen.
This site presents an Occasional Paper of the War-torn Societies Program of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). In this paper, Birgitte Sorensen reviews the literature dealing with political, economic and social reconstruction from a gender perspective. She explores the relationship between gender and political reconstruction by examining women's participation in peace building and democratization, and analyzes women's roles in economic reconstruction by looking first at developments within agriculture, and then within non-agricultural formal and informal sectors. Women's role in social reconstruction is studied both in relation to the rehabilitation of the social sector and through an analysis of more complex processes of social interaction. The paper stresses the need to see women not simply as victims, but also as a highly differentiated group of social actors who possess valuable resources and capacities, and who have their own agendas in post-conflict situations. Furthermore, the author notes that the failure to recognize gender issues may produce new social tensions and contribute to struggles over identity, status and power in fragile post-conflict societies. (The description of this occasional paper is excerpted from UNRISD News No. 19).

Natural Disasters: Myths and Realities
This site identifies some of the most common myths in natural disaster management and attempts to implode these myths by presenting corresponding realities. PAHO has published several articles, books and webpages dealing with this topic. More information can be obtained from their home page at: http://www.paho.org/english/ped/pedhome.htm.

The Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID for its Spanish acronym) Website
This is the recently refurbished website of CRID, a joint initiative of six organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean for the compilation and dissemination of disaster-related information. This site provides a range of information resources including an on-line database of more than 11,000 documents on disaster-related issues.