Little Room to Maneuver
The Challenges to Humanitarian Action in the New Global Security Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22992991 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-41 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649880500501146 |
| OpenAlex | W2030715256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
The current global politico‐security environment poses challenges to principled humanitarian action on three levels. Humanitarian actors are at pains to preserve a neutral stance in contested political environments, specifically those of occupation and counter‐insurgency operations within the US‐led Global War on Terror — a particularly difficult proposition when the major donor for humanitarian activities is also the occupying power. Their second challenge is to maintain operational independence in environments of post‐conflict transition and other contexts where the life‐saving work is over and political pressure increases for all international actors to operate under a unified, politically coherent peace‐building strategy. Finally, humanitarians perceive a greater threat than ever before to the physical security of their own workers, as incidents of violence against aid workers appear to be on the rise.
Action (physics) · Humanitarian aid · Independence (probability theory) · International security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proposition · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
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| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |