Hugo Slim
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 982356 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hugo Slim |
| NOMBRES | Hugo |
| APELLIDO | Slim |
| FIRMA | SLIM H |
| AFILIACIONES | Oxford Brookes University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 179 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Localization is Self-Determination
This paper gives a personal political perspective on the policy dispute about localization in the humanitarian sector to argue that localization is a realization of the political right to self-determination. It starts by describing how humanitarian aid is too international today. It then makes the case for localization as an essential process of self-determination and humanitarian citizenship. It then analyses the main political arguments used ag…
Strategic Religious Engagement in International Development
This essay introduces a special, open-access issue of this journal focused on the intersection of religion and relief & development. It describes the discussions—of terminology and tangibility, of perspective and practice—that shaped the research done for the “Evidence-Based Summit on Strategic Religious Engagement,” a conference organized and hosted October 5–8, 2020 by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This special issue cons…
Implementing Strategic Religious Engagement in International Development
Strategic religious engagement in relief & development efforts requires: a careful country assessment, establishing appropriate principles of engagement, and defining priority sectors and institutions (possibly including multireligious platforms equipped to serve as intermediaries). Important factors to take into account include: (a) a risk assessment; (b) review of information sources and gaps; (c) understanding religion-state relationships; (d)…
Religious Engagement in Development
Religious involvement in humanitarian aid and development takes countless forms, varying by country, traditions, and sector. Research and operational evaluations have expanded in recent years, with some sectors far better documented than others, notably health and peacebuilding. There are, however, substantial gaps in evidence, most significantly regarding local and non-formal involvement. Pandemic preparedness and response are critical issues re…
Intrinsic and Strategic Leverage of Religion in Development
Strategic religious engagement (SRE) is important for five main reasons: (a) the direct and significant contributions of religious actors to humanitarian assistance and development, not least their high levels of trust and access, and their distinctive contributions to spiritual care; (b) The local presence and knowledge of faith-based organizations (FBOs) and religious communities that are critical to self-reliance; (c) the significant if often …
Humanitarian Diplomacy
As part of a roundtable on “Balancing Legal Norms, Moral Values, and National Interests,” this essay describes the humanitarian diplomacy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by comparing it conceptually with other forms of advocacy and illustrating it with the ICRC's recent experience in the Yemen crisis. Humanitarian diplomacy is examined as one particular way of balancing legal norms, moral values, and national interests in t…
Regime Collapse and Revolution
John Dunn’s provocative interview in Contention volume 5, issue 2 inspired an array of responses from the scholarly and practitioner communities. In the original interview, Dunn suggested that the era of modern revolutions has come to a close and that we are now witnessing a phenomenon better described as “regime collapse.” In this response to Dunn’s conception of revolution, Hugo Slim, an expert on non-international armed conflicts, challenges D…
The Horn of Africa
This is a wonderful book written with great erudition and affection for the peoples and countries of the Horn of Africa, by a longstanding expert who is now enjoying emeritus creativity at the University of Cambridge's Centre for African Studies. It is also yet another valuable contribution to regional studies from London's excellent publisher, Hurst. Christopher Clapham uses his extensive first-hand and academic knowledge of the Horn of Africa t…
Do the Geneva Conventions matter
This book does what it says on the tin. It assesses if and how the Geneva Conventions—the laws of war—make a positive difference to the conduct of war by making it more restrained and humane. The overall answer from the various contributors is that the Geneva Conventions do make a difference in some places and at some times—depending on the political stakes and the moral sense of politicians and soldiers—and that they build international consensu…
Aid in danger
Aid in danger: the perils and promise of humanitarianism. By Larissa Fast. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2014. 326pp. £49.00. ISBN 978 0 81224 603 2. Humanitarian aid has expanded dramatically in the last few years. Today, there are more humanitarian workers around the world than ever before—about 274,000 of them. In 2013, 155 aid workers were violently killed and 134 were kidnapped. The number of aid worker deaths has been risi…
Business actors in armed conflict
The purpose of this article is to give an overview of current understandings of the various roles of business actors in armed conflict. It traces the expanding discussion of business and conflict in today's civil wars, and the discussion's importance to humanitarian, human rights, corporate and peacebuilding policymakers. It shows how the humanitarian understanding of business roles in conflict has progressed beyond some simple and largely negati…
Values versus Power
This article is part of a forum on the report of the United Nations Secretary-General, 'Implementing the Responsibility to Protect', which was released on 12 January 2009. The report was written as a response to 'one of the cardinal challenges of our time, as posed in paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome: operationalizing the responsibility to protect'. The forum seeks to provide a range of perspectives on the report. It featur…
Geneva
Geneva: The Key Values of Geneva in the World of Tomorrow* Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Chief Scholar, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 131–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0272 Published: 01 December 2007
Geneva's future
In a world where most of the great cities are heavily branding themselves to compete for lucrative business, political and sporting events, what future role is there for an international values-based city like Geneva? This article reflects on the history of ideas that have taken root in Geneva over the centuries and suggests how they might be actively re-positioned to give the city continuing relevance in the coming century. It looks at eleven po…
The Use of Force in Humanitarian Intervention
John Janzekovic Aldershot and New York: Ashgate, 2006, ISBN: 0-7546-4850-8, 238 pp. The debate about forceful humanitarian intervention is as alive today as it has been for many years. The challeng
Dithering over Darfur? A preliminary review of the international response
The extreme violence against civilian communities in the Sudanese province of Darfur has coincided with the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. This article makes a preliminary assessment of the international response to Darfur to see how it compares to the denial and delay of ten years ago. The slow evolution of the international community's response is charted from early Chadian efforts at mediation in 2003, the eventual involvement of t…
With or Against? Humanitarian Agencies and Coalition Counter-Insurgency
With or Against? Humanitarian Agencies and Coalition Counter-Insurgency Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Chief Scholar, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 34–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/23.4.34 Published: 01 December 2004
Why protect civilians? Innocence, immunity and enmity in war
Journal Article Why protect civilians? Innocence, immunity and enmity in war Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 3, May 2003, Pages 481–501, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00318 Published: 23 May 2003
Not Philanthropy But Rights
This article supports the efforts of humanitarian agencies working in armed conflict to recognise a political and legal philosophy of humanitarian action that is more explicitly built on human rights and international humanitarian law. It regards humanitarian philosophy as a mixture of a simple ethic of charity and a more politically connected theory of rights. It observes the dangers of a strong philanthropy-only tendency that persists in intern…
Claiming a humanitarian imperative
Journal Article Claiming a humanitarian imperative: NGOs and the cultivation of humanitarian duty Get access H Slim H Slim Oxford Brookes University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 3, October 2002, Pages 113–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.3.113 Published: 01 October 2002
Veggio, Claudio Maria
Violence and Humanitarianism
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development
The conventional (but false) dichotomy between humanitarianism and development, hitherto grounded in the perceived differences between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, respectively, is not merely unhelpful in practical terms but also serves to diminish our understanding of the shared issues underlying the two discourses. There are welcome signs, however, of a growing recognition that all development and relief wo…
Sharing a universal ethic
This article makes the case for a much broader ownership of the principle of humanity in war. It observes how enshrining the principle within institutionalized humanitarianism has limited the ideal of humanity to a consecrated priesthood of relief agencies and their relatively small range of relief activities in war. Instead, the article argues that the principle of humanity is a cosmopolitan or universal ethic and so humanitarian responsibility …
Doing the Right Thing
In recent years a new generation of relief workers and relief agencies has become embroiled in the heat of civil wars and political emergencies, and the humanitarian community has had to revisit its fundamental principles and address the ethics of what it does. This paper sets out to continue this important debate by emphasising that ethical analysis should always be an essential part of humanitarian practice. The paper seeks to recognise the dif…
Doing the Right Thing
In recent years a new generation of relief workers and relief agencies has become embroiled in the heat of civil wars and political emergencies, and the humanitarian community has had to revisit its fundamental principles and address the ethics of what it does. This paper sets out to continue this important debate by emphasising that ethical analysis should always be an essential part of humanitarian practice. The paper seeks to recognise the dif…
The Horn of Africa
This is a wonderful book written with great erudition and affection for the peoples and countries of the Horn of Africa, by a longstanding expert who is now enjoying emeritus creativity at the University of Cambridge's Centre for African Studies. It is also yet another valuable contribution to regional studies from London's excellent publisher, Hurst. Christopher Clapham uses his extensive first-hand and academic knowledge of the Horn of Africa t…
Not Philanthropy But Rights
This article supports the efforts of humanitarian agencies working in armed conflict to recognise a political and legal philosophy of humanitarian action that is more explicitly built on human rights and international humanitarian law. It regards humanitarian philosophy as a mixture of a simple ethic of charity and a more politically connected theory of rights. It observes the dangers of a strong philanthropy-only tendency that persists in intern…
Relief agencies and moral standing in war
The article explores the moral difficulties for international humanitarian workers operating as third parties in war zones. The main part examines current usage of the terms 'humanity', 'neutrality', 'impartiality', and 'solidarity', as they are used in the discourse of humanitarian operations. The article then considers the psychological implications for relief workers of operating as noncombatant third parties in war. Finally, the article recog…
With or Against? Humanitarian Agencies and Coalition Counter-Insurgency
With or Against? Humanitarian Agencies and Coalition Counter-Insurgency Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Chief Scholar, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 34–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/23.4.34 Published: 01 December 2004
The Continuing Metamorphosis of the Humanitarian Practitioner
In this article I set out an agenda of good practice for today's humanitarian practitioner. I first outline the distinctive political and conflict-related features of today's complex political emergencies, and the new interventionist strategies of the international community and the United Nations in responding to them. From this description of the new operating environment faced by humanitarian practitioners since the end of the Cold War, I go o…
Claiming a humanitarian imperative
Journal Article Claiming a humanitarian imperative: NGOs and the cultivation of humanitarian duty Get access H Slim H Slim Oxford Brookes University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 3, October 2002, Pages 113–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.3.113 Published: 01 October 2002
The stretcher and the drum
This article examines the relationship between international military forces and civilian humanitarian organizations, and looks at how these two groups perceive one another. First, it compares military and humanitarian organizational cultures. Secondly, it considers the terms 'military' and 'humanitarian' to show how each encompasses a range of differing organizational cultures, making operational planning and standardized practice more complicat…
Localization is Self-Determination
This paper gives a personal political perspective on the policy dispute about localization in the humanitarian sector to argue that localization is a realization of the political right to self-determination. It starts by describing how humanitarian aid is too international today. It then makes the case for localization as an essential process of self-determination and humanitarian citizenship. It then analyses the main political arguments used ag…
Violence and Humanitarianism
Humanitarian Diplomacy
As part of a roundtable on “Balancing Legal Norms, Moral Values, and National Interests,” this essay describes the humanitarian diplomacy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by comparing it conceptually with other forms of advocacy and illustrating it with the ICRC's recent experience in the Yemen crisis. Humanitarian diplomacy is examined as one particular way of balancing legal norms, moral values, and national interests in t…
Why protect civilians? Innocence, immunity and enmity in war
Journal Article Why protect civilians? Innocence, immunity and enmity in war Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 3, May 2003, Pages 481–501, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00318 Published: 23 May 2003
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development
The conventional (but false) dichotomy between humanitarianism and development, hitherto grounded in the perceived differences between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, respectively, is not merely unhelpful in practical terms but also serves to diminish our understanding of the shared issues underlying the two discourses. There are welcome signs, however, of a growing recognition that all development and relief wo…
Business actors in armed conflict
The purpose of this article is to give an overview of current understandings of the various roles of business actors in armed conflict. It traces the expanding discussion of business and conflict in today's civil wars, and the discussion's importance to humanitarian, human rights, corporate and peacebuilding policymakers. It shows how the humanitarian understanding of business roles in conflict has progressed beyond some simple and largely negati…
What is development
The author presents his views on the essential ingredients of development, comparing the development ideal with its reality. Development is about change for the better, which must be appropriate (culturally, economically, technologically etc.) if change is to take root, and gain the participation of beneficiaries. Equity and justice are at the heart of any change for the better, as is sustainability. True development cannot be measured in solely …
Strategic Religious Engagement in International Development
This essay introduces a special, open-access issue of this journal focused on the intersection of religion and relief & development. It describes the discussions—of terminology and tangibility, of perspective and practice—that shaped the research done for the “Evidence-Based Summit on Strategic Religious Engagement,” a conference organized and hosted October 5–8, 2020 by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This special issue cons…
Religious Engagement in Development
Religious involvement in humanitarian aid and development takes countless forms, varying by country, traditions, and sector. Research and operational evaluations have expanded in recent years, with some sectors far better documented than others, notably health and peacebuilding. There are, however, substantial gaps in evidence, most significantly regarding local and non-formal involvement. Pandemic preparedness and response are critical issues re…
Do the Geneva Conventions matter
This book does what it says on the tin. It assesses if and how the Geneva Conventions—the laws of war—make a positive difference to the conduct of war by making it more restrained and humane. The overall answer from the various contributors is that the Geneva Conventions do make a difference in some places and at some times—depending on the political stakes and the moral sense of politicians and soldiers—and that they build international consensu…
Sharing a universal ethic
This article makes the case for a much broader ownership of the principle of humanity in war. It observes how enshrining the principle within institutionalized humanitarianism has limited the ideal of humanity to a consecrated priesthood of relief agencies and their relatively small range of relief activities in war. Instead, the article argues that the principle of humanity is a cosmopolitan or universal ethic and so humanitarian responsibility …
Intrinsic and Strategic Leverage of Religion in Development
Strategic religious engagement (SRE) is important for five main reasons: (a) the direct and significant contributions of religious actors to humanitarian assistance and development, not least their high levels of trust and access, and their distinctive contributions to spiritual care; (b) The local presence and knowledge of faith-based organizations (FBOs) and religious communities that are critical to self-reliance; (c) the significant if often …
Regime Collapse and Revolution
John Dunn’s provocative interview in Contention volume 5, issue 2 inspired an array of responses from the scholarly and practitioner communities. In the original interview, Dunn suggested that the era of modern revolutions has come to a close and that we are now witnessing a phenomenon better described as “regime collapse.” In this response to Dunn’s conception of revolution, Hugo Slim, an expert on non-international armed conflicts, challenges D…
Implementing Strategic Religious Engagement in International Development
Strategic religious engagement in relief & development efforts requires: a careful country assessment, establishing appropriate principles of engagement, and defining priority sectors and institutions (possibly including multireligious platforms equipped to serve as intermediaries). Important factors to take into account include: (a) a risk assessment; (b) review of information sources and gaps; (c) understanding religion-state relationships; (d)…
Values versus Power
This article is part of a forum on the report of the United Nations Secretary-General, 'Implementing the Responsibility to Protect', which was released on 12 January 2009. The report was written as a response to 'one of the cardinal challenges of our time, as posed in paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome: operationalizing the responsibility to protect'. The forum seeks to provide a range of perspectives on the report. It featur…
Towards Community Managed Relief
Musica Nova accommodata per cantar et sonar sopra organi
A Royal Treasure at Sutton Coldfield
Journal Article A Royal Treasure at Sutton Coldfield Get access H. COLIN SLIM H. COLIN SLIM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Early Music, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1978, Pages 57–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/6.1.57 Published: 01 January 1978
Arcadelt's "Amor, tu sai" in an Anonymous Allegory
Towards Community Managed Relief
Listening to Rural People in Africa
Oral History and Third World Development, National Sound Archive, London, 28 November 1991
What is development
The author presents his views on the essential ingredients of development, comparing the development ideal with its reality. Development is about change for the better, which must be appropriate (culturally, economically, technologically etc.) if change is to take root, and gain the participation of beneficiaries. Equity and justice are at the heart of any change for the better, as is sustainability. True development cannot be measured in solely …
The Continuing Metamorphosis of the Humanitarian Practitioner
In this article I set out an agenda of good practice for today's humanitarian practitioner. I first outline the distinctive political and conflict-related features of today's complex political emergencies, and the new interventionist strategies of the international community and the United Nations in responding to them. From this description of the new operating environment faced by humanitarian practitioners since the end of the Cold War, I go o…
The stretcher and the drum
This article examines the relationship between international military forces and civilian humanitarian organizations, and looks at how these two groups perceive one another. First, it compares military and humanitarian organizational cultures. Secondly, it considers the terms 'military' and 'humanitarian' to show how each encompasses a range of differing organizational cultures, making operational planning and standardized practice more complicat…
Military Humanitamnism and the New Peacekeeping
Summaries This article examines the rise of the military humanitarian policy of the United Nations since 1992 and outlines the new military doctrine on peacekeeping. First it explores how a military based approach to the increasing number of complex political emergencies emerged as a deliberate policy within the United Nations in the new humanitarian era after the Cold War. Second, it looks at various NGO reactions to this new era. Third, it comp…
Doing the Right Thing
In recent years a new generation of relief workers and relief agencies has become embroiled in the heat of civil wars and political emergencies, and the humanitarian community has had to revisit its fundamental principles and address the ethics of what it does. This paper sets out to continue this important debate by emphasising that ethical analysis should always be an essential part of humanitarian practice. The paper seeks to recognise the dif…
Relief agencies and moral standing in war
The article explores the moral difficulties for international humanitarian workers operating as third parties in war zones. The main part examines current usage of the terms 'humanity', 'neutrality', 'impartiality', and 'solidarity', as they are used in the discourse of humanitarian operations. The article then considers the psychological implications for relief workers of operating as noncombatant third parties in war. Finally, the article recog…
Sharing a universal ethic
This article makes the case for a much broader ownership of the principle of humanity in war. It observes how enshrining the principle within institutionalized humanitarianism has limited the ideal of humanity to a consecrated priesthood of relief agencies and their relatively small range of relief activities in war. Instead, the article argues that the principle of humanity is a cosmopolitan or universal ethic and so humanitarian responsibility …
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development
The conventional (but false) dichotomy between humanitarianism and development, hitherto grounded in the perceived differences between international humanitarian law and international human rights law, respectively, is not merely unhelpful in practical terms but also serves to diminish our understanding of the shared issues underlying the two discourses. There are welcome signs, however, of a growing recognition that all development and relief wo…
Veggio, Claudio Maria
Violence and Humanitarianism
Not Philanthropy But Rights
This article supports the efforts of humanitarian agencies working in armed conflict to recognise a political and legal philosophy of humanitarian action that is more explicitly built on human rights and international humanitarian law. It regards humanitarian philosophy as a mixture of a simple ethic of charity and a more politically connected theory of rights. It observes the dangers of a strong philanthropy-only tendency that persists in intern…
Claiming a humanitarian imperative
Journal Article Claiming a humanitarian imperative: NGOs and the cultivation of humanitarian duty Get access H Slim H Slim Oxford Brookes University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 3, October 2002, Pages 113–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.3.113 Published: 01 October 2002
Why protect civilians? Innocence, immunity and enmity in war
Journal Article Why protect civilians? Innocence, immunity and enmity in war Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 3, May 2003, Pages 481–501, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00318 Published: 23 May 2003
Dithering over Darfur? A preliminary review of the international response
The extreme violence against civilian communities in the Sudanese province of Darfur has coincided with the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. This article makes a preliminary assessment of the international response to Darfur to see how it compares to the denial and delay of ten years ago. The slow evolution of the international community's response is charted from early Chadian efforts at mediation in 2003, the eventual involvement of t…
With or Against? Humanitarian Agencies and Coalition Counter-Insurgency
With or Against? Humanitarian Agencies and Coalition Counter-Insurgency Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Chief Scholar, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 34–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/23.4.34 Published: 01 December 2004
Geneva
Geneva: The Key Values of Geneva in the World of Tomorrow* Get access Hugo Slim Hugo Slim Chief Scholar, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 131–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0272 Published: 01 December 2007
Geneva's future
In a world where most of the great cities are heavily branding themselves to compete for lucrative business, political and sporting events, what future role is there for an international values-based city like Geneva? This article reflects on the history of ideas that have taken root in Geneva over the centuries and suggests how they might be actively re-positioned to give the city continuing relevance in the coming century. It looks at eleven po…
The Use of Force in Humanitarian Intervention
John Janzekovic Aldershot and New York: Ashgate, 2006, ISBN: 0-7546-4850-8, 238 pp. The debate about forceful humanitarian intervention is as alive today as it has been for many years. The challeng
Values versus Power
This article is part of a forum on the report of the United Nations Secretary-General, 'Implementing the Responsibility to Protect', which was released on 12 January 2009. The report was written as a response to 'one of the cardinal challenges of our time, as posed in paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome: operationalizing the responsibility to protect'. The forum seeks to provide a range of perspectives on the report. It featur…
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