Tag: Humanitarian Interventions
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Community‑Run Aid Networks in Yemen
How have community‑run aid networks adapted to Yemen’s blockade? They have responded to severe limits on movement, resources, and access by decentralizing decisions, building local supply chains, strengthening community trust, and adopting flexible management. These adaptations enabled continuous aid delivery and show the resilience and effectiveness of locally driven humanitarian action.
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Breaking Down Structures of Dependency
How should the humanitarian sector adapt to the funding cuts of USAID — differentiate funding, cooperate with locals more, and more flexibility — dependency relationships are dangerous and new (flexible) mechanisms must be put in place
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The Cost of Blindness
Prioritisation and fascination with the democratisation and economic development of Myanmar blinded the International Community from the genocidal human rights abuses faced by Rohingya Muslims. At a time when Myanmar was opening up to the world, actors feared challenging the newly arisen Aung San Suu Kyi. Ultimately, turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed…
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Contesting Humanitarian Space
The contestation of humanitarian space in the Gaza Strip follows a lack of willingness from the international community to ensure the unobstructed provision of aid. The contestation of humanitarian space poses a serious question to the possibility of long-term conflict resolution in Gaza. The contestation of humanitarian space in the Gaza Strip could lead to…
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Humanitarian Aid under Pressure
The 11th Humanitarian Symposium Munich was devoted to the topic “Humanitarian aid in the light of the current geopolitical situation”. Accordingly, the agenda was filled with a series of experts from the field, which allowed us to draw conclusions about the recent geopolitical impacts on humanitarian aid worldwide.
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The Failure of R2P’s Third Pillar
What barriers are there to the adoption and enforcement of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine? Through the case studies of Myanmar, Ukraine, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article examines how strategic and economic interests serve as a barrier to R2P’s implementation. Application of human rights law remains selective.
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When Aid Becomes a Weapon
1. Does the long-standing belief that independent, international agencies are best suited to deliver humanitarian assistance still hold today? 2. Aid approaches in Myanmar should emphasise locality rather than neutrality. 3. The presence of a repressive military junta and numerous insurgency groups mean that traditional methods of aid distribution face many barriers to success. Hence,…
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“They Call It Peace, But We Cannot Fish”
1.Does sustained, non-kinetic maritime coercion in the South China Sea generate legal obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law despite the absence of declared war? 2.China’s effective control over access to Scarborough Shoal reshapes Filipino fishermen’s livelihoods, triggering protective duties under IHL, human rights law, and UNCLOS. 3.Civilian harm exists below the threshold of…
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All Theory, No Practice?
Ever since its genesis, impartiality has epitomised a core principle of UN peacekeeping. However, developments towards robust peacekeeping, like the implementation of MONUSCO’s Force Intervention Brigade, catalysed doubts about whether the UN would be able to uphold its self-imposed commitment to impartiality on the ground. While the changing nature of conflict requires peace operations to…