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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Humanitarian workers"”.
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Legal protection of humanitarian workers during a non-international armed conflict
… paper focuses on the legal protection of humanitarian workers. It refers to the experience of governmental organizations with a humanitarian vocation, and international humanitarian organizations, such as, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), active in more than 80 …
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A study of the relationships of power between humanitarian workers and local leaders in Haiti
… Development Index and a significant number of humanitarian organisations are present on the island aspiring at improving the standard of living of the population. The following study examines how the relationships of power emerging through the relationship between humanitarian and local leaders …
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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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"it's Only Fellow Refugees Who Assist:" Social Capital, Social Institutions, And Self-Reliance In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
… Yet, research also suggests the crucial role of humanitarian organizations and social networks. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews with refugee households and humanitarian workers in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, along with weekly questionnaires with refugee families, this …
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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
… the following question - How can relief workers be empowered to create useful mobile apps to support the work of first responder teams? Mobile devices are reshaping the disaster management domain and they make fast and targeted support possible. However there is the major obstacle of …