Ethical Codes in Humanitarian Emergencies

From Practice to Research

Bibliographic Data

ID3897646
AuthorsRichard Black (0000-0002-8003-2605), Richard E Black (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume27
Issue2
Pages95-108
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisasters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-7717.00222
PMID12825434
OpenAlexW1900918450
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited19

Notable strides have been made in recent years to develop codes of conduct for humanitarian intervention in conflicts on the part of international NGOs and UN organisations. Yet engagement by the academic and broader research communities with humanitarian crises and ongoing complex political emergencies remains relatively ad hoc and unregulated beyond the basic ethical guidelines and norms developed within universities for research in general, and within the governing and representative bodies of particular academic disciplines.This paper draws on a case study of research on humanitarian assistance to Liberia during that country's civil war from 1989 to 1996. The difficulties faced by humanitarian agencies in Liberia led to the development of two key sets of ethical guidelines for humanitarian intervention: the Joint Policy of Operations (JPO) and Principles and Policies of Humanitarian Operations (PPHO). This paper seeks to address what lessons, if any, these ethical guidelines, together with different experiences of conducting research in war-torn Liberia, can provide in terms of the role of academic researchers - and research itself - in humanitarian crises

Engineering ethics · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian intervention · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Engineering · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Global Security and Public Health · Medicine · Peacebuilding and International Security · Law · Public Administration

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