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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Humanitarian assistance"”.
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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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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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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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Helping the helpers : a toolkit for mobile humanitarian assistance apps
… with different data sources needed for humanitarian assistance. Linked Data form is a critical part of data interoperability in the Linked Data technology. The Linked Data Form Extension is a tool implemented as an extension to the Punya framework that automatically generates Linked Data …
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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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Cash is not enough: child discipline, humanitarian assistance, and Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Mission impossible? Linking humanitarian assistance and development aid in political emergencies in Southern Africa: The case of Mozambique between 1975-1995
… factors that constrain attempts to link humanitarian assistance and development aid in political emergencies in Southern Africa by using the case study of Mozambique in the period between 1975-1995. Extensive use and reference to Norwegian relief and development aid during the …
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The Making of a 'Crisis': Syrian Refugees and the Politics of Health in Jordan
… apparent refugee and health ‘crises’ – and their humanitarian responses – are being subsumed within foreign policy agendas appears to be accelerating. From the Syrian ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe in 2015, to the outbreak of Ebola, the Zika virus and, more recently, Covid-19, attempts at tackling …
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Between and Beyond Borders: Conflict, International Response, and Forced Migration
… the effects of conflict and international humanitarian responses on forced migration in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1980 and 2007. In facing violent conflicts, not all people leave their homes. Some people decide to stay. Some people seek a refuge outside their countries while others stay …
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Parliamentary Discourse and Humanitarian Decision-Making: An Analysis of Canada's Response to the Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine
… hearings influenced the Canadian Cabinet's humanitarian assistance decisions for Afghanistan (2021) and Ukraine (2022). Conducting a mixed-method discourse analysis, including quantitative frequency analysis and qualitative thematic examination, it argues that Canada's humanitarian responses …
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An exploratory study of the development of Adonis Musati Project as an organisation
… AMP was formed in 2007 with the aim of providing humanitarian assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. Named after a Zimbabwean, Adonis Musati, who died of starvation in a queue at the Department of Home Affairs, trying to access legal documentation, AMP set out to ensure that this would never …
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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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Optimal transmitter placement in wireless mesh networks
… associated decision support tool can be used by humanitarian assistance or disaster relief personnel and combat communications planners to quickly design wireless mesh networks. The decision support tool runs on a laptop computer, accepts map data in a generic file format, creates network …
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The nexus of international humanitarian law and international human rights law application and enforcement in a non-international armed conflict: A study of the Mozambican armed conflict
… forms of sexual assault, and denial to access humanitarian assistance. The intensity and organization of these armed groups have given room for the application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in Mozambique's armed conflict. The paper relies on a qualitative …
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Theater level operations other than war modeling : applications of decision making theory
… making of a theater level staff in the OOTW humanitarian assistance mission environment. The model uses probabilistic forecasting models and Bayesian techniques to predict what the state of a region in the theater will be some time in the future. Decision tree structures and the forecasting …
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Field information support tool
… (COIN), counter-narcotic missions (CN), and humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR). The overarching principle of FIST is the development of a user-friendly data collection tool that utilizes automated information systems to enable unstructured data to be collected, processed, …
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Bureaucratic access points
… this investigation is the relationship between humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) agencies and associated Department of Defense (DOD) medical components. Access point theory is important to this study, for it helps us understand how successful policy implementation is enabled in the …
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Rebels, Activists, and Repairers: Youth and Social Change in Africa
… undernourished and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, or as dangerous, unruly and caught up in violence, gang activity, and warfare. As a result there has been a cascade of nongovernmental organizations, relief projects, and development assistance programs over the past three …
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