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The Humanitarians
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Author : David P. Forsythe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-08-11
The Humanitarians written by David P. Forsythe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-11 with Political Science categories.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.
The Humanitarians
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Author : Joy Damousi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-11
The Humanitarians written by Joy Damousi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with History categories.
A longitudinal study spanning six decades to map the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.
The Humanitarian Enterprise
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Author : Larry Minear
language : en
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Release Date : 2002
The Humanitarian Enterprise written by Larry Minear and has been published by Kumarian Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
* Epilogue discussing the international response to the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the war in Afghanistan * A fundamental text about the future of humanitarianism in the twenty-first century International humanitarian activities have grown enormously in scale over the past decade, and the complex links between humanitarian work and the worlds of politics and military engagement have become increasingly contested. Larry Minear uncovers what international humanitarians--including the UN, national governments, the Red Cross, and many private relief and development agencies--have learned about performing humanitarian work well, and the arguments that remain unresolved.
The Humanitarians
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Author : Joy Damousi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-11
The Humanitarians written by Joy Damousi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with History categories.
Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to humanitarian interventions during the Vietnam War, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees. In this longitudinal study, Joy Damousi explores the shifting forms of humanitarian activity related to war refugee children over the twentieth century, from child sponsorship, the establishment of orphanages, fundraising, to aid and development schemes and campaigns for inter-country adoption. Framed by conceptualisations of the history of emotions, and the limits and possibilities afforded by empathy and compassion, she considers the vital role of women and includes studies of unknown, but significant, women humanitarian workers and their often-traumatic experience of international humanitarian work. Through an examination of the intersection between racial politics and war refugees, Damousi advances our understanding of humanitarianism over the twentieth century as a deeply racialised and multi-layered practice.
The Humanitarian Fix
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Author : Joe Cropp
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-18
The Humanitarian Fix written by Joe Cropp and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-18 with Social Science categories.
This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks. This book argues that humanitarian protection on the ground is driven not by official frameworks in the traditional sense, but by the relationships between the complex mix of actors involved in contemporary wars. The frameworks, in turn, act as a unifying narrative that preserves these relationships. As humanitarian practitioners navigate this complex space, they act as unofficial brokers, translating the official frameworks to align with the often-divergent agendas of non-state armed actors. In doing so, they provide an unofficial humanitarian fix for the challenges inherent in applying the official frameworks in contemporary wars. Drawing on rich ethnographic observations from the author’s time in northern Iraq, and complemented by interviews with a range of fieldworkers and humanitarian policy makers and lawyers, this book will be a compelling read for researchers and students within humanitarian and development studies, and to practitioners and policy makers who are grappling with the contradictions this book explores.
Border Humanitarians
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Author : Adam Saltsman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-16
Border Humanitarians written by Adam Saltsman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-16 with categories.
In rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar. The activists this book follows must navigate a multiplicity of representations; they are simultaneously illegal in Thailand, underpaid feminized laborers in a global garment supply chain, and targets of global North humanitarian intervention with funding to rescue and empower them. Looking at how these multiple roles overlap, Saltsman asks how state border enforcement regimes, global humanitarianism, and neoliberal capitalist trajectories produce varied sets of constraints and opportunities in migrants' lives. Here, like in many spaces that are simultaneously zones of refuge and hubs for flexible labor, the borderlands are both a site of dispossession for migrants as well as a resource for collective agency. As Saltsman details, gender itself emerges as an important tool for migrants and aid workers alike to navigate insecurity and assert varying ways of making order amidst the upheaval of displacement and ongoing exclusion.
The Humanitarians And The Ten Hour Movement In England
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Author : Raymond Gibson Cowherd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Humanitarians And The Ten Hour Movement In England written by Raymond Gibson Cowherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Business & Economics categories.
Understanding The Humanitarian World
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Author : Daniel G Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-17
Understanding The Humanitarian World written by Daniel G Maxwell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with Political Science categories.
Conflict and disaster have been part of human history for as long as it has been recorded. Over time, more mechanisms for responding to crises have developed and become more systematized. Today a large and complex ‘global humanitarian response system’ made up of a multitude of local, national and international actors carries out a wide variety of responses. Understanding this intricate system, and the forces that shape it, are the core focus of this book. Daniel G Maxwell and Kirsten Gelsdorf highlight the origins, growth, and specific challenges to, humanitarian action and examine why the contemporary system functions as it does. They outline the main actors, explore how they are organised and look at the ways they plan and carry out their operations. Interrogating major contemporary debates and controversies in the humanitarian system, and the reasons why actions undertaken in its name remain the subject of so much controversy, they provide an important overview of the contemporary humanitarian system and the ways it may develop in the future. This book offers a nuanced understanding of the way humanitarian action operates in the 21st century. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in international human rights law, disaster management and international relations.
Humanitarians On The Frontier
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Author : Alasdair Gordon-Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-17
Humanitarians On The Frontier written by Alasdair Gordon-Gibson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-17 with Political Science categories.
The book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.
Digital Humanitarians
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Author : Patrick Meier
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2015-01-06
Digital Humanitarians written by Patrick Meier and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Political Science categories.
The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information‘social media, satellite imagery and more is often referred to as Big Data. Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian