Mary B Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary B Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary B |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Looking back to look forward
In this viewpoint, Dr Mary B. Anderson, the founder of the “Do No Harm” approach in 1993, reflects on the approach and its application as a way of suggesting lessons and challenges for the present and the future. Fundamentally, she argues that “Do No Harm” is about accountability to the people we intend to help and asking the difficult questions that enhance the aid sector to learn over time
Opting Out of War
Analyzes the experiences of 13 communities to show the steps by which they developed effective strategies for opting out of the violent conflicts surrounding them and maintaining their regions as nonwar areas despite myriad pressures to the contrary.
To Work, or Not to Work, in "Tainted" Circumstances
Mary B. Anderson To Work, or Not to Work, in “Tainted” Circumstances: Difficult Choices for Humanitarians IN 2 0 0 4 , AS THE FIRST A N N IV ER SA R Y OF THE US ENTRY INTO IRAQ, approached, I was asked by colleagues to go to Iraq to conduct some training workshops for the local staff of international nongovernmen tal organizations (NGOs). I am an American. The NGOs I would be work ing w ith receive US governm ent funding for some programs. If I…
Aid
Despite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and recipients to accept our innate human equality and our circumstantial inequality in order to…
Do No Harm
Dynamite under the Intercommunal Bridge
Drawing on evidence from two case-study projects, this article identifies two types of conflict transformation approaches used by aid agencies in developing countries: promotive and pre-emptive. Recognizing activities designed to promote linkage between groups often are ineffective in preventing conflict, the article explores how the second `pre-emptive' approach seems to address short-comings in the `promotive' approach. Together, the two are se…
The concept of vulnerability
The recent explicit focus on “vulnerable groups” by international assistance agencies — particularly those that respond to emergency situations around the world — reflects two important concerns. First, aid providers want to be able to identify potential victims of disasters in order to anticipate and mitigate such events, and second, they use the identification of vulnerable groups as a way of targeting assistance, which is always restricted by …
Understanding the disaster-development continuum
Disasters are not simply 'natural' but shaped by human choices. These choices make some people - invariably women - more physically, socially and psychologically vulnerable than others. Anderson's article examines how disaster relief relates to long term development; how to work with poor people to move from short-term dependency to self-sufficiency. She shows why gender analysis is the optimum means to achieve fair and efficient development, by …
Reducing Vulnerability to Drought and Famine
In this paper we present salient lessons learned through the International Relief/Development Project about the relationships between disasters and development. We discuss approaches to famine response and prevention, including the impact of global food distribution efforts on the capacities of people affected by famine and offer criteria for planning famine relief so that it will promote systemic, long term development of these capacities. We fi…
Rising from the Ashes
Drawing on case histories of emergency relief efforts that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for designing programs to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. They also present an analytical framework for assessing the characteristics and needs of afflicted communities
A reconceptualization of the linkages between disasters and development
Essay Review
Reducing Vulnerability to Drought and Famine
In this paper we present salient lessons learned through the International Relief/Development Project about the relationships between disasters and development. We discuss approaches to famine response and prevention, including the impact of global food distribution efforts on the capacities of people affected by famine and offer criteria for planning famine relief so that it will promote systemic, long term development of these capacities. We fi…
A reconceptualization of the linkages between disasters and development
Aid
Despite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and recipients to accept our innate human equality and our circumstantial inequality in order to…
Looking back to look forward
In this viewpoint, Dr Mary B. Anderson, the founder of the “Do No Harm” approach in 1993, reflects on the approach and its application as a way of suggesting lessons and challenges for the present and the future. Fundamentally, she argues that “Do No Harm” is about accountability to the people we intend to help and asking the difficult questions that enhance the aid sector to learn over time
Understanding the disaster-development continuum
Disasters are not simply 'natural' but shaped by human choices. These choices make some people - invariably women - more physically, socially and psychologically vulnerable than others. Anderson's article examines how disaster relief relates to long term development; how to work with poor people to move from short-term dependency to self-sufficiency. She shows why gender analysis is the optimum means to achieve fair and efficient development, by …
Essay Review
Dynamite under the Intercommunal Bridge
Drawing on evidence from two case-study projects, this article identifies two types of conflict transformation approaches used by aid agencies in developing countries: promotive and pre-emptive. Recognizing activities designed to promote linkage between groups often are ineffective in preventing conflict, the article explores how the second `pre-emptive' approach seems to address short-comings in the `promotive' approach. Together, the two are se…
A reconceptualization of the linkages between disasters and development
Rising from the Ashes
Drawing on case histories of emergency relief efforts that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for designing programs to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. They also present an analytical framework for assessing the characteristics and needs of afflicted communities
Reducing Vulnerability to Drought and Famine
In this paper we present salient lessons learned through the International Relief/Development Project about the relationships between disasters and development. We discuss approaches to famine response and prevention, including the impact of global food distribution efforts on the capacities of people affected by famine and offer criteria for planning famine relief so that it will promote systemic, long term development of these capacities. We fi…
The concept of vulnerability
The recent explicit focus on “vulnerable groups” by international assistance agencies — particularly those that respond to emergency situations around the world — reflects two important concerns. First, aid providers want to be able to identify potential victims of disasters in order to anticipate and mitigate such events, and second, they use the identification of vulnerable groups as a way of targeting assistance, which is always restricted by …
Understanding the disaster-development continuum
Disasters are not simply 'natural' but shaped by human choices. These choices make some people - invariably women - more physically, socially and psychologically vulnerable than others. Anderson's article examines how disaster relief relates to long term development; how to work with poor people to move from short-term dependency to self-sufficiency. She shows why gender analysis is the optimum means to achieve fair and efficient development, by …
Do No Harm
Dynamite under the Intercommunal Bridge
Drawing on evidence from two case-study projects, this article identifies two types of conflict transformation approaches used by aid agencies in developing countries: promotive and pre-emptive. Recognizing activities designed to promote linkage between groups often are ineffective in preventing conflict, the article explores how the second `pre-emptive' approach seems to address short-comings in the `promotive' approach. Together, the two are se…
Aid
Despite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and recipients to accept our innate human equality and our circumstantial inequality in order to…
To Work, or Not to Work, in "Tainted" Circumstances
Mary B. Anderson To Work, or Not to Work, in “Tainted” Circumstances: Difficult Choices for Humanitarians IN 2 0 0 4 , AS THE FIRST A N N IV ER SA R Y OF THE US ENTRY INTO IRAQ, approached, I was asked by colleagues to go to Iraq to conduct some training workshops for the local staff of international nongovernmen tal organizations (NGOs). I am an American. The NGOs I would be work ing w ith receive US governm ent funding for some programs. If I…
Opting Out of War
Analyzes the experiences of 13 communities to show the steps by which they developed effective strategies for opting out of the violent conflicts surrounding them and maintaining their regions as nonwar areas despite myriad pressures to the contrary.
Looking back to look forward
In this viewpoint, Dr Mary B. Anderson, the founder of the “Do No Harm” approach in 1993, reflects on the approach and its application as a way of suggesting lessons and challenges for the present and the future. Fundamentally, she argues that “Do No Harm” is about accountability to the people we intend to help and asking the difficult questions that enhance the aid sector to learn over time
Essay Review
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)