Reflections on humanitarian action : principles, ethics and contradictions / edited by the Humanitarian Studies Unit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humanitarian Studies Unit Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Humanitarian Studies Unit.

Series:

Transnational Institute series.

Transnational Institute series

Standardized Title:

Desafíos de la acción humanitaria. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance.

War victims--Services for.

War victims.

Intervention (International law).

Physical Description:

viii, 203 p. 22 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A guide to the problems with humanitarian action.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

About the Transnational Institute

Introduction

HUMANITARIAN DEBATES IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM

THE RIGHT TO HUMANITARIAN AID

THE ETHICAL DIMENSION:THE LIMITS OF UNIVERSALITY

TENSIONS AND DOMINATION:JOURNALISM AND THE STATE

COORDINATING THE ACTORS:LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE

HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS OR UNTRUSTWORTHY COMBATANTS?

SIMILARITIES AND CONTRADICTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION AND DEVELOPMENT

NOTE

1. Humanitarian Principles in International Politics in the 1990s

THE CHANGED ROLE OF HUMANITARIAN ISSUES SINCE 1989

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE CENTRALITY OF HUMANITARIAN ISSUES

SIX UNITED NATIONS-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS

CONCLUSIONS FROM EXPERIENCES OF THE 1990s

POSTSCRIPT ON THE KOSOVO CRISIS 1999

2. The Right to Humanitarian Aid: Basis and Limitations

THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THE RIGHT TO HUMANITARIAN AID

THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS OF 1949 AND THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS OF 1977

COMMON PRACTICE

THE PRACTICE OF STATES

THE SPIRITUAL ELEMENT

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW

THE LAW: HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS

THE RIGHT TO LIFE

THE RIGHT TO FOOD

THE RIGHT TO BASIC HEALTHCARE

THE RIGHT TO PHYSICAL WELL-BEING

CONCLUSION

NOTES

3. The Ethical Framework of Humanitarian Action

SPECIFIC PRINCIPLES OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION

CULTURAL RESPECT AND THE PARTICIPATION OF THOSE AFFECTED

PRACTICAL WISDOM IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION

4. The Complex Nature of Actors in Humanitarian Action and the Challenge of Coordination

AN INCREASINGLY COMPLICATED SCENARIO

THE ARMED FORCES AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION

THE CHALLENGES OF COORDINATION

THE COORDINATING ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS: SOME REFLECTIONS

COORDINATION WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION

THE POSITIONS OF THE OECD 'S AID DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

NGO COORDINATION FOCUSES.

COORDINATION WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF THE RED CROSS AND THE RED CRESCENT: THE SEVILLE AGREEMENT

CONCLUSIONS

5. Subalterns on the Aid Chain

COMPETING PERSPECTIVES

ALONG THE CHAIN OF AID

PROSPECTS AND POINTERS

6. Relief, Development and Humanitarian Intervention

SETTING THE SCENE:RELIEF,DEVELOPMENT AND THE RISE OF HUMANITARIANISM

THE COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT

THE POST-COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT

HUMANITARIANISM IN PRACTICE: THE REALITY BEYOND THE RHETORIC

RELIEF AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION

NON-MILITARY HUMANITARIANISM IN PRACTICE

7. The Media and the Humanitarian Spectacle

HUMANITARIAN CRISES AND LOCAL MEDIA

THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL COUNTRIES

PARTIAL HUMANITARIANISM ACCORDING TO THE INTERESTS OF INDIVIDUAL STATES

THE DICTATORSHIP OF LIVE BROADCASTS

RECOMMENDATIONS

8. Chronicle of Ajiep, Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan, 1998

INTRODUCTION

UNJUSTIFIED MORTALITY LEVELS

OPERATION LIFELINE SUDAN

THE EXAMPLE OF AJIEP, A VILLAGE IN BAHREL GHAZAL

THE FAILURE OF THE OLS SYSTEM

List of Contributors

Index

Acumcum 183

Afghanistan 64

Africa 144

Africa Watch 153

aid chains

bottom-up approach 123

calls for reform 135-7

top down process 120-1

aid workers

held to ransom 128

protection for 31-2

protection for 39

protection for 44-5

protection for 64

protection for 73

Ajiep

14

178

181

182-8

Albania, Kosovar refugees

13

134

Albanians 6

AlertNet [Reuters Foundation] 171

Almansa, F. 84

Amnesty International 94

Angola

1

161

Annan, Kofi 19

Aranguren, L.A. 97

Aristotle 91

armed forces, role of 102-3

arms control 3-4

Asamoah, O.Y. 69

assets, forcible transfer of.

128

153

154

Australia, and East Timor 20

autonomy

10

82

84-6

120

Aweil 182

Bahr el Ghazal

177

179

181-8

Bararud 183

Barre, Siad 128-9

basic needs

assessment of 178

assessment of 181

assessment of 183-4

assessment of 185

assessment of 189

and right to survive 70-1

definition of 83

satisfaction of 9

satisfaction of 13

satisfaction of 81

satisfaction of 82-4

satisfaction of 111

beneficiaries/victims

120-37

as active agents in recovery 123

northern-based 124-5

stronger victims 130-2

vulnerable victims 133

Bettati, Mario

67

72

Biafra 66

Bihac 38

Blondel, J.L. 73

Blue Nile 180

Bol, Kerubino Kuanyin

182

183

bombing campaigns

6

48

51-2

53

Bosnia

2

17

146

169

Operation Deliberate Force 33

Operation Deliberate Force 39

safe areas 36

safe areas 37-8

Botes, Johannes 167

Bourdieu, Pierre

160

165

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

16-17

Brauman, R.

Brauman, R 83

Brauman, R 161

Burundi 1

Bush, George 148

business entrepreneurs 126-8

Cambodia

Canadian Airborne Regiment 33

Capa, Robert 160

Carrillo, J.A. 62

Central America 132

Centre for Peace Research [CIP]

Chambers, Robert

122

Chechnya

19

20-1

killing of Red Cross workers 44

killing of Red Cross workers 45

children

blanket feeding 184

blanket feeding 185

blanket feeding 186

blanket feeding 187

mortality 71

right to food 72

China

9

citizen-state reciprocity

125

136

civil wars

5

31-2

civilians

31

59

Clausewitz, K.M. von

47

171

CNN syndrome 168-9

Cold War

end of 2

end of 4

end of 16

end of 27

end of 35.

humanitarian action during 15-16

humanitarian action during 142-3

Colombia

64

108

Common Agricultural Policy 106

compassion

78-9

80

complex political emergencies [CPEs]

and human rights 18

and humanitarian aid 149

and humanitarian aid 150

and humanitarian aid 154

and media censorship 158

and transfer of assets 128

and transfer of assets 153

and transfer of assets 164

coordination of action 100

coordination of action 104-5

coordination of action 108

Concern 186

conflict entrepreneurs 128-9

conflicts

1-2

and lack of development 16

ethnic and religious 4

ethnic and religious 27-8

root causes of 145

root causes of 146

Congo 1

Connor, M. 108

consequentialism 90-1

Consolidated Appeals Process [CAP] 105

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons [1980] 25

Convention on the Safety of UN and Associated Personnel

25

45

coordination

11-14

67-8

100

103-16

and leadership 115-16

and UN's role 12

and UN's role 104-6

and UN's role 110

and UN's role 116

between donors 110

DAC guidelines 109-11

Global Plans 108

types of 104

crimes against humanity

33

50

crises

as public spectacle 157-8

as public spectacle 160

complexity of 170

emotional response to 164-5

generating gains for business 127-8

prevention of 9

prevention of 18

prevention of 84

prevention of 143

prevention of 172

Cuba

cultural respect

Dayton Agreement

28

52

de Waal, A. 131

democracy

173

deontological theory of ethics

90-1

Department of Humanitarian Affairs [DHA]

12

101

104-5.

Derradji, Taoufiq 158

destructive tendencies

78

79

development cooperation

15-18

81

84-5

94

106

109

conflicting interests 151

in political context 150-1

Dinkas 183

displaced people

134-5

177-8

183-6

and cheap labour 127

and cheap labour 134

Doctors of the World 67

donor fatigue 151

Dunant, Henry 58

Durand, A. 55

Dutch government, and Sudan 180

East Timor 19-20

El Salvador

61

elections, observation 17

emergency aid

and development measures 18

and development measures 143

and development measures 154

distribution control 178

distribution control 180

distribution control 181

distribution control 183-6

distribution control 190

ends and means 90-3

environment, protection in time of war 25

Epicentre

184

186

187

epidemics

71

Eritrea

18

132

Ethiopia

European Commission

Humanitarian Office [ECHO] 8

Humanitarian Office [ECHO] 12

Humanitarian Office [ECHO] 26

Humanitarian Office [ECHO] 100

Humanitarian Office [ECHO] 101

Humanitarian Office [ECHO] 107-9

Framework Contract of Association 108-9

European Union

Common Security and Foreign Policy [CSFP] 101

Common Security and Foreign Policy [CSFP] 106

and East Timor 20

and humanitarian aid 55

and humanitarian aid 65-6

and humanitarian aid 106-9

and Sudan 180

events, money raising 164

famines

16

124

143

Sudan 14

Sudan 177-8

Sudan 182

Sudan 183-4

FAO [Food and Agriculture Organisation] 106

food aid

124-5

177-81

183-90

failure of 185-90

Food Basket Monitoring 190

food, right to 71-2

France, and Rwanda

36

38

39

150

Fundacíon Hogar del Empleado

21.

Garang, Colonel John 182.

Notes:

Originally issued under title: Los desafíos de la acción humanitaria.

"In association with Transnational Institute (TNI), the Humanitarian Studies Unit, MSF Spain, ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Office)."

ISBN:

9780745317267

9781849641098

1849641099

9780585425689

058542568X

OCLC:

50825326