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TitleCatholic Institute for International Relations

Held atInstitute of Commonwealth Studies

Reference codeICS203

Date1975-2008

Creator
- Catholic Institute for International RelationsMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  The Sword of the Spirit organization was founded by lay Catholics in 1940 with the aims of combatting fascism and informing society and the church about international development. It changed its name to the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) in 1965. It now operates volunteer and educational programmes and seeks to eradicate poverty, injustice and exclusion, and encourage a more equitable distribution of resources. CIIR changed its name to Progressio in 2006.

Scope and ContentReports, papers, correspondence. Mainly concerning political and development issues in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe but also South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Somaliland. Subjects include Operation Murambatsvina (2005) and forced evictions in Zimbabwe; farmworkers in Zimbabwe; political crisis, human rights, and elections in Zimbabwe; election monitoring, Truth and Reconciliation Committee, political developments in South Africa, c1992-1999; Angola, 1993-2000, including peace process; aid to Namibia, 1990; Somaliland report, 2000.

Conditions governing accessOpen for research although at least 24 hours’ notice is required.

Extent4 boxes

Finding aidsCatalogued to file-level online. A pdf version of this catalogue is also attached to this description.

Related files

File-level catalogue

This acccrual to the CIIR archive complements the main archive held at the Library (reference ICS151).

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