Disarmament as Humanitarian Action
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Disarmament as Humanitarian Action: Making Multilateral Negotiations Work (DHA) is a research project carried out at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, UNIDIR. This project, launched in 2004, examines current difficulties for the international community in tackling disarmament and arms control challenges.

Research activities

The DHA project’s research focuses on two major themes:
  • Showing how humanitarian perspectives add value to disarmament and arms control work and proposing new ways these approaches could assist multilateral processes;
  • Examining multilateral negotiating processes more broadly to help practitioners "think outside the box"
    Thinking outside the box
    Thinking outside the box is to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking....

    in their work by drawing on interdisciplinary research.

Publications

These themes are explored in three UNIDIR publications drawing from a range of contributors in civil society, diplomacy, and the policy and research fields:
  • A further brief publication will be published this year.

Current work

An important emphasis of the DHA project’s work in 2007 is to communicate its research findings to multilateral practitioners. As one element of these efforts, the DHA project created the Disarmament Insight initiative with the Geneva Forum. This initiative is prompting constructive and creative engagement in the multilateral disarmament community through a range of activities including workshops and online resources building on the previous respective work of both DHA and the Geneva Forum.

The DHA project is supported by the Governments of Norway and the Netherlands.

External links

  • DHA project webpage: http://www.unidir.org/bdd/fiche-activite.php?ref_activite=275
  • UNIDIR website: http://www.unidir.org
  • Disarmament Insight website: http://www.disarmamentinsight.blogspot.com
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