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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Humanitarian aid"”.
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The ethics of humanitarian aid in conflict situations
… deprivation of conflict attracts a great deal of aid. Such aid is often inspired by the thought that we have some responsibility to protect or assist innocent victims of war. However, this humanitarian response is vulnerable to abuse. Combatants can manipulate the supply of aid to achieve their …
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Humanitarian aid workers' transition into retirement: A narrative inquiry
… I have explored the retirement experience of 6 humanitarians who had retired from a humanitarian organization after a career characterised by frequent, global relocation and the need to live and work in physically and emotionally challenging conditions. I used a narrative methodology which …
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Political Neutrality and Humanitarian Aid: Practical Implications of Organizational Ideology
… principle of neutrality affect the practices of humanitarian aid organizations in conflict situations. Specifically, I study the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médicins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders/MSF). Additionally, I seek specific examples from the current …
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Challenges of Humanitarian Aid International Non-Government Organizations (INGOs) in Myanmar
… 100 INGOs, and out of these, 43 are providing humanitarian aid and development activities in conjunction with eight UN organizations. However, whether humanitarian operations have positively or negatively impacted Myanmar is underreported. A backlash against INGOs arose in the wake of 2012, and …
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An examination of the legal instruments involved in the transportation of humanitarian aid
… perspective of the administrative law side of aid decisions which is then followed by case study one on the transportation of aid to our South Pacific neighbours after a natural disaster. That material came from several indepth interviews conducted by my research assistant. The paper then moves …
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A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh
… knowledge, beliefs, and practices affected the humanitarian aid response to disasters in Haiti and Aceh Province, Indonesia. It examines the importance of local knowledge in post-disaster response situations and how aid workers' "expertise" interplays with local knowledge, decision-making …
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Humanitarian aid in less secure regions : an analysis of World Food Programme operations in the Somali region of Ethiopia
… acquired the difficult task of transporting aid into the Somali region of Ethiopia. The political instability, rebel activity, ethnic tensions, and poor infrastructure in the area endanger and delay the flow of commodities through the WFP's supply chain. In this thesis, we explore and analyze …
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The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War
… as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called humanitarian aid that was provided to them in the form of medical and economic assistance to help surmount the hardship of the postwar period is remembered with great appreciation to this day. However, critical views on the German engagement in …
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The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War
… as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called humanitarian aid that was provided to them in the form of medical and economic assistance to help surmount the hardship of the postwar period is remembered with great appreciation to this day. However, critical views on the German engagement in …
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Enhancing Civil Military Integration for Strategic Sealift
… capabilities required for strategic defence, humanitarian aid or refugee evacuation. This thesis reviews the range of militarily suitable commercial shipping and the different processes for chartering appropriate vessels while also considering the present state of civil/military synergies …
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Ordering British Famine Relief Efforts in India, Ottoman Anatolia, and Qing China, 1873–1879
… relief advocates weighed competing claims to humanitarian assistance from famine-affected communities in different regions of the world in the 1870s: namely, during the famines in Bihar (1873–1874), Asia Minor (1873–1875), Madras (1876–1878), and Shanxi (1876–1879). In doing so, I argue that …
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Human and modeling approaches for humanitarian transportation planning
… the use of trucks and helicopters to transport humanitarian aid to affected communities is a key logistics challenge. This dissertation explores ways to improve humanitarian transportation planning by building on the strengths of both humans and models. The changing, urgent, multi-objective …
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Ambitions of cidade : war-displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola
… recent experiences of violence, displacement, humanitarian aid and so on, but also by social and historical constructions of rural-urban relationships and of urban space. These frame actors' choices, decisions and actions. I show that 'war-displaced people' are individuals with a history and in …
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The Politics of Triage: International Aid and AIDS Care in Northern Uganda
Uganda has been considered an AIDS success story since the late 1990s when prevalence rates decreased around the country. Recognizing Uganda’s unique AIDS response, this thesis seeks to analyze HIV/AIDS in Uganda and challenges normative understandings of Uganda’s ‘success’, specifically, in …
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Did Nca, Npa, Ols, and Usaid Prolong the Second Sudanese Civil War
… roles certain non-governmental organizations, humanitarian aid groups, played in that conflict. In examining two Norwegian organizations, Norwegian Church Aid and Norwegian People's Aid, the United Nations negotiated umbrella organization Operation Lifeline Sudan, and USAID, there is little …
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INDONESIAN NATIONAL ARMED FORCES EFFECTIVENESS IN THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE/DISASTER RELIEF ROLES
… (TNI, Indonesia National Armed Forces) in humanitarian aid and disaster relief (HA/DR), focusing on comparative case studies of the 2004 Aceh Earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic response. Applying Matei and Halladay’s military effectiveness framework—which emphasizes strategic planning, …
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An asssessment of development aid to Namibia
… of the economic and policy impact of development aid to Namibia since independence 1990. Namibia has been receiving a large amount of economic and humanitarian aid, in the form of financial, technical and material support from both bilateral and multilateral development co-operation partners with …
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