FMR 18 : published September 2003
Delivering the goods: rethinking humanitarian logistics
Contents
Why logistics? by Anisya Thomas
The academic side of commercial logistics and the importance of this special issue by Ricardo Ernst
Humanitarian logistics: context and challenges by Lars Gustavsson
A logistician's plea by John Rickard
Towards improved logistics: challenges and questions for logisticians and managers by Donald Chaikin
UN Joint Logistics Centre: a coordinated response to common humanitarian logistics concerns by David B Kaatrud, Ramina Samii and Luk N Van Wassenhove
The central role of supply chain management at IFRC by Bernard Chomilier, Ramina Samii and Luk N Van Wassenhove
The World Food Programme: augmenting logistics by Peter Scott-Bowden
Logistics under pressure: UNICEF's Back to School programme in Afghanistan by Paul Molinaro and Sandi Blanchet
Coordination in the Great Lakes by George Fenton
Lean logistics: delivering food to northern Ugandan IDPs by Margaret Vikki and Erling Bratheim
Food aid logistics and the southern Africa emergency by Jon Bennett
The humanitarian use of the military by Rupert Wieloch
Marrying logistics and technology for effective relief by H Wally Lee and Marc Zbinden
Humanitarian mapping by Rupert Douglas-Bate
Complex emergency - complex finance? by Guy Hovey and Diana Landsman
General articles
PRTs - guaranteeing or undermining a secure future in Afghanistan? by Paul O'Brien
Post-literacy for refugees and IDPs in Sudan by Hashim Abuzeid, Naomi Lockwood, Rashida Abdel Mutalib and Tony Wrightson
Promises without solutions: Iraqi refugees left in the lurch in Lebanon by Bashir Osmat, Michael Kagan and Samira Trad
Settling refugee disputes in Iran by Fatemeh Keyhanlou, Hani Mansourian and Negar Azimi
The EU and asylum: towards strategies to reduce conflict and human rights abuses in countries of origin by Stephen Castles, Heaven Crawley and Sean Loughna
Debate
Internal displacement in Afghanistan ends for some, not for others by Sarah Petrin
Regular features
RSC: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' and its phantom million Iraqi refugees plus Kabul kids
Global IDP Project: Enhancing camp management for displaced people
UNHCR EPAU: Why do we know so little about refugees?
Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement: Civil society initiatives