Identifying Contemporary Civil Wars' Effects on Humanitarian Needs, Responses & Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anastasia Shesterinina (0000-0002-3779-4903, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 152 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 24-37 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01990 |
| OpenAlex | W4378800685 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Contemporary civil wars are highly complex processes involving a myriad of nonstate, state, civilian, and external actors. These actors develop systems of relationships that evolve during conflict and affect humanitarian needs, responses, and outcomes. This is because humanitarian actors are not isolated from but are part of these social systems. Their activities are constituted by and are constitutive of the interactions between the internal and external actors engaged in civil wars. This essay advances an analytical framework for mapping systems of relationships between the actors at the center of contemporary civil wars to understand how the relationships established by humanitarians transform for reasons outside of their control. This framework highlights the contingency inherent in wartime humanitarian activities in general, and health care provision in particular, and the need for locally informed, adaptive humanitarian practices in changing conflict environments
Affect (linguistics · Civil society · Contingency · Control (management · Economics · Epistemology · Humanitarian aid · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma
Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria
Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
Choosing not to weaponize healthcare
Aiding Victims, Abetting Violence
Fragmentation of armed non-State actors in protracted armed conflicts
Medical care in armed conflict
Violence against health care
Refusing to Cooperate with Armed Groups Civilian Agency and Civilian Noncooperation in Armed Conflicts
An Ontology of Peace
This is how we survived’
Managing the humanitarian micro-space
In Their Shoes
Doing Harm by Doing Good? The Negative Externalities of Humanitarian Aid Provision during Civil Conflict
State breakdown and Army-Splinter Rebellions
A Typology of Rebel Political Institutional Arrangements
When Organizations Rebel
Militant and Rebel Organization(s)
Civil war as a social process
Negotiating health and life
Aid as a Tool against Insurgency
Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |