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16 Refuge 1 (1997)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr16 and id is 1 raw text is: CANADA'S PERIODICAL ON REFUGEES R EFU KE SPECIAL ISSUE ON EARLY WARNING AND EARLY RESPONSE The Continuing Quest for Early Warning and Early Response Susanne Schmeidl At an Early Warning Conference on 15-17 March 1997 in Toronto, Ontario (see summary in this issue), one of the participants approached me with the comment that it was interesting to see that the same issues from about ten years ago are still being discussed. Hearing such a comment makes one wonder if we will ever move beyond the stage of discussion into the imple- mentation of early warning-rapid re- sponse and early action. In many ways such a prospect is very frustrating; one feels in a time trap, doomed to repeat history over and over again. Yet, while I agree to some extent with the comment that early warning researchers are still struggling with similar issues as several years ago, I would argue that a shift has occurred. In the early years of early warning, the focus was not really on preventive ac- tion before the outbreak of a crisis, but more on early warning for preparing responses after a crisis has occurred and created refugees. Thus, while we may struggle with similar issues that in many ways are linked to the defini- tion of early warning, changes have nevertheless occurred (see also the ar- ticle by Howard Adelman on the his- tory of early warning). One of the most important changes is that early warning is no longer an exotic topic discussed only by a few individuals. Early warning has gone mainstream. This has led to an explo- sion of individuals and organizations that do early warning, or redefine their © Susanne Schmeidl, 1997. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits use, reproduction and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) are credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees is cited. rlu bir I. CoNrurs: The Continuing Quest for Early Warning and Early Response Susanne Schm eidl.............................................................................................................. 1 Background Humanitarian and Conflict Oriented Early Warning: A Historical Background Sketch Howard Adelman ................................................................................................. 4 NGO Perspectives Early Warning and Early Response: The Link between Information and Action Kathryn W hidden ............................................................................................................. 7 The Burundi and Great Lakes Project of the Centre for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations: An Example of NGO Cooperation Barnett Rubin and Fabienne Hara .................................................................................. 11 European Perspectives How to Establish an Early Warning System: Concept and First Steps in Switzerland Andreas V. Kohisehiatter and Ginther Bachler ................................ 16 The State of Conflict Prevention in France Julie Fournier ....................................... 19 Recent Projects and Conferences Forum on Early Waming and Early Response: A New Collaborative Effort FEW ER Secretariat ....................................................................................................... 24 Synergy in Early Warning Conference: Background Susanne Schmeidl and Howard Adelman ....................................................................... 29

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