A safer future : reducing the human cost of conflict

Drawing on Oxfam's experience of working with communities caught up in armed conflict in many countries around the world, this book makes recommendations for urgent action by governments that would reduce the risk of war and protect civilian lives.

It looks specifically at changes in international policies and pre-emptive action by the international community - measures which could prevent some wars occurring; and how laws protecting civilians could be enforced.

The book then goes on to ask how this can be done to prevent at least some future wars, and suggests how aid agencies have changed in recent years as a result of working in wars.