Sierra Leone : food at the heart of the conflict / Pascal Lefort -- Congo-Brazzaville : a civilian population held hostage to militias / Pascal Lefort -- The Great Lakes : avoiding an ethnic reading / Jean-Francois Vidal -- Somalia : a country without a state, a conflict without end / Michel Anglade -- Somalia : a difficult reconstruction / Roland Marchal -- The conflict in Abkhazia / Manuel Sanchez-Montero -- Tajikistan : what role for nongovernmental organizations? / Jean-Michel Grand, Chris Leather, and Frances Mason. Columbia : a people displaced by violence / Pablo Alcade Subias -- Guatemala : inequality and food security / Carmelo Gallardo -- Nicaragua : no way out of rural poverty? / Jorge Pereiro Pinon -- Honduras : supplying water to victims of Hurricane Mitch / Eric Drouart -- The tragedy of Kosovo / Frances Mason and Kathryn Ogden -- A survey of Kosovar refugees in Macedonia, May-June 1999 / Michael Brewin -- Are there still "natural" famines? / Sylvie Brunel -- Humanitarian action in North Korea : ostrich politics / Christophe Reltien. Lessons from the Kosovo tragedy / Sylvie Brunel -- A code of "good" conduct? / Daniel Puillet-Breton -- Standards and quality assurance / Pierre Perrin -- Humanitarianism : a changing concept / Jean-Luc Bodin -- Security : a key component of humanitarian action / Pierre Gallien -- Humanitarianism and the international criminal justice system : abandoning neutrality and impartiality? / Carole Dubrulle -- Combating man-made famine : legal instruments / Marie-Josée Domestici-Met -- Why embargoes? / Romain Coti and Anne-Laure Wipff. The birth of responsible humanitarianism / Sylvie Brunel -- Feeding ten billion people? / Sylvie Brunel -- Increasing productive capacity : a global imperative / Sylvie Brunel -- Overcoming rural poverty : the lessons of Asia / Gilbert Etienne -- The role of nutrition in public health / Claudine Prudhon -- Is food aid to Russia necessary? / Alain Giroux -- Food aid to Russia : welcome or unwelcome? / Jonathan Littell -- Hunger in the United States / Trudy Lieberman -- Food aid and grain / José Bidegain and Astrid Filliol. The Lomé Conventions and food security / Jean-Jacques Gabas -- Twenty years of struggle against hunger : from voluntarism to the reality principle / Sylvie Brunel.