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Showing 1 to 20 of 630 for “"Humanitarian"”.
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Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Perspectives
This thesis addresses primary concepts in the humanitarian intervention debates. I argue that humanitarian intervention is a perfect duty. The global community has a moral obligation to act decisively in the face of extreme human rights abuses. There are two contrasting theoretical perspectives …
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Calculating humanitarian response capacity
… every year. The United Nations operates five humanitarian response depots (UNHRDs), stocked with over 1,000 types of humanitarian relief items. In the event of an emergency, the UNHRDs deploy the pre-positioned stocks to meet the initial demand of those people affected. Our thesis evaluates …
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The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
… definition, the conduct, and the occasions for humanitarian military intervention. I argue that properly-called humanitarian interventions must be directed by partly-altruistic intentions, and just war theorists should resist the emerging trend that discards right intention as a central …
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The Laws of Humanitarian Assistance
Humanitarian needs represent a longstanding, diverse, and growing set of challenges. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that in 2024, nearly 300 million individuals would need humanitarian assistance, reflecting compounding challenges like weather and …
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Inventory pre-positioning for humanitarian operations
… the impact of inventory pre-positioning on humanitarian operations. The study identifies optimal locations for warehousing non-consumable inventories required for initial deployment of aid. These facility location problems are geometric optimizations using mean annual homeless resulting from …
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Key performance indicators in humanitarian logistics
Non-profit humanitarian relief organizations have typically been unable to measure the performance of their supply chains due to an inability to centrally capture data from operations. With the recent development and implementation of information technology systems that can support the logistics …
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Quantitative Decision Models for Humanitarian Logistics
Humanitarian relief and aid organizations all over the world implement efforts aimed at recovering from disasters, reducing poverty and promoting human rights. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a series of quantitative decision models to help address some of the challenges faced by …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
… I fill this gap through an investigation of humanitarian practices: how do the emotions of humanitarian workers mediate the practices of participatory approaches in the international humanitarianism system? To answer this, I first present a psychoanalytic theory of emotions in equilibrium, …
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Strategies for Revitalizing the Humanitarian Workforce Program
The Canadian Humanitarian Workforce (HWF) program, funded by Public Safety Canada, plays a vital role in national disaster response. However, barriers such as lack of awareness, time constraints, and inclusivity challenge hinder volunteer engagement. This study utilized mixed-methods research, …
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An analysis of humanitarian intervention in action
This submission examines the doctrine of humanitarian intervention by focusing on the Western involvement in the violent breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s and the wars that this ignited. It draws on several publications written over the past decade including …
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The politics and dilemmas of humanitarian assistance
… of the Cold War has rejuvenated the debate of humanitarian intervention. The opportunity to employ armed force in a humanitarian role is said to have expanded with the end of the bipolar stalemate. Such forums as the United Nations Security Council are no longer held in check by concerns for …
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Humanitarian Sheltering: Analysing Global Structures of Aid
The provision of shelter is an integral part of humanitarian response, in aiding communities affected by crises, in post-disaster, post-conflict and complex situations. Indeed, prior research has identified the wider impacts that shelter can have in these situations, across health, livelihoods, …
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Principles Matter: Humanitarian Assistance to Civilians under IHL
… framework and generated debate on the concept of humanitarian assistance itself, the role of different kinds of actors (local/external, governmental/nongovernmental, armed/unarmed) in providing it, and the value and meaning of the principles traditionally associated to it—humanity, impartiality, …
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The crime of 'terror' under International Humanitarian Law
… of ‘terror’ as a war crime under international humanitarian law. Included in Article 51 (2) of Additional Protocol I and in Article 13 (2) of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the crime prohibits the ‘acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread …
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Mobile Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Humanitarian Demining
… kilometers of land in more than 80 countries. Humanitarian demining seeks to rid the world of landmines and return local populations to their displaced land. To meet this goal, surveys of hazardous areas, describing their location and contents, are used to produce threat maps for a given …
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Categories Have Consequences: Street Children as Humanitarian Objects
… in India, it becomes increasingly clear that the humanitarian infrastructure and the category of street child move in tandem. By using theories developed by cultural studies researchers and scholars of classification and infrastructure, it is possible to show how the classification of street child …
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Global food security: Drivers, measurement, and humanitarian response
… to examine the drivers, measurement, and humanitarian response dimensions of global food insecurity. The first study, based in Zambia, shows that increases in the price of milk during the critical weaning period are associated with higher risks of child stunting in urban areas. The second …
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The ethics of humanitarian aid in conflict situations
… or assist innocent victims of war. However, this humanitarian response is vulnerable to abuse. Combatants can manipulate the supply of aid to achieve their ends, or channel aid to provide their forces with additional food or arms, and so extend the conflict. This poses a challenge to our …
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