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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Humanitarian Aid - New Set Up and New Challenges -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Unique Humanitarian Aid to the Syrians -- The Classical Ethical Principles -- Humanity -- Neutrality -- Impartiality -- Independence -- New Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Humanitarian Operations -- Standards of Treatment -- Treatment Location -- Legal Consideration -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 2 -- International Humanitarian Law: The Compliance Challenge -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Compliance Challenge -- Weapons Prohibitions -- The UN Security Council -- Legal Classification and Contemporary Conflict -- Armed Non-State Actors -- The Human Rights Humanitarian Law Interface -- International Criminal Law -- Attempted IHL Institutional Compliance -- Conclusion: Towards Feasible Futures -- References -- About the Author -- Chapter 3 -- Atrocious Crimes and the Multifaceted Dilemma of Humanitarian Interventions in World Politics -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Consideration -- The 2011 Libyan Crisis -- The Syrian Crisis -- The Myanmar Crisis -- Emerging Challenges and Prospects of R to P -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Haiti: Quality of Life Eight Years after the Earthquake -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Haiti before the Earthquake -- 2. Quality of Life -- 2.1. Health and Medical Assistance -- 2.2. Education and Access to Information -- 2.3. Income and Profession -- 2.4. Security -- 2.5. Environment, Physical Space and Housing -- 2.6. Leisure and Free Time -- 2.7. Family and Social Network -- 2.8. Life Perspectives and Satisfaction with Their Own Lives -- 2.9. Spirituality and Personal Beliefs -- 3. The Current Picture of Humanitarian Aid -- Conclusion -- References -- Annex 1. Table Summarizing Life Conditions before and Just after the Earthquake -- Annex 2. Glossary -- Biographical Sketches.

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary

The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-determination. Fair-trade brands narrate consumption as an act of feminist solidarity with women artisans in the global South. In Capitalist Humanitarianism Lucia Hulsether examines these projects and the contexts of their emergence. Blending historical and ethnographic styles, and traversing intimate and global scales, Hulsether tracks how neoliberal self-critique creates new institutional hegemonies that, in turn, reproduce racial and neocolonial dispossession. From the archives of Christian fair traders to luxury social entrepreneurship conferences, from US finance offices to Guatemalan towns flooded with their loan products, from service economy desperation to the internal contradictions of social movements, Hulsether argues that capitalist humanitarian projects are fueled as much by a profit motive as by a hope that racial capitalism can redeem the losses that accumulate in its wake

Introduction : citizen humanitarianism at European borders / Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci -- Filling the baps : citizen humanitarianism in the context of crisis abandonment and criminalisation / Heidi Mogstad -- A community center in a humanitarian context : the professionalization of a grassroots initiative in Istanbul, Turkey / Tsjalline Boorsma -- Citizen humanitarianism and local responses to the migration crisis in Serbia / Svetlana Stanarević and Vanja Rokvić -- "They just come and try to help" : exploring the prioritisation of downstream accountability in Calais' citizen-led humanitarianism / Leila Denniston -- Melilla : fight and survival of activist humanitarianism / Clara Miralles Vila -- A more subversive humanitarianism? : the political strategies of grassroots initiatives supporting illegalized migrants / Robin Vandevoordt -- Beyond borders : the transnational turn of Russian refugee aid / Johanne Kalsaas -- Contesting humanitarianism through solidarity and hospitality in the French-Italian borderscape / Janina Louise Pescinski -- Proximity and protest : citizen demonstrations against anti-immigrant policies in eastern Sicily / Vera Haller -- Memorial tourism and citizen humanitarianism : volunteers' civil pilgrimage to the "life jackets graveyard" of Lesvos, Greece / Giovanna Di Matteo -- Approaching biographical life : grassroots humanitarianism in Europe / Luděk Stavinoha and Kavita Ramakrishnan -- Conclusion : citizen humanitarianism beyond the "crisis" / Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert and Elisa Pascucci.

This volume addresses the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- The Editors and the Contributors -- Foreword -- Accountability -- What is humanitarian accountability? -- Accountability weaknesses -- What explains these weaknesses? -- Strengthening accountability -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Advocacy -- Which targets? -- Advocacy's evolution -- Critical junctures -- New issues -- Coalitions and alliances -- Implementation gaps -- The role of research -- Messages and messengers -- The role of outsiders -- Dilemmas and tensions -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Arenas -- An arena perspective on humanitarian aid -- The case for an arena perspective on paradigms -- Classic Dunantist humanitarianism -- Resilience humanitarianism -- How can two humanitarianisms operate alongside each other? -- Crises as continuity and discontinuity -- Institutions as changing and multifaceted -- Aid provision as related action -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Camps -- Introduction -- Understanding refugee camps -- Camps amid protracted crises -- A space of exception and 'bare life'? -- The future of the refugee camp -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Communication -- Introduction -- The ethical promise of representation -- Humanitarian communication as a practice, in practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Epidemics -- Introduction -- A mixed history of humanitarian engagement with epidemics -- The introduction of cholera to Haiti by UN peacekeeping forces in 2010 -- Humanitarian interventions controlling epidemics among dispersed populations: polio in the Horn of Africa, 2013-2014 -- The changing nature of humanitarian engagement with epidemics: Ebola in West Africa, 2013-2016 -- Conclusion -- References -- Faith

Medical humanitarianism--medical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster--has a prominent and growing presence in international development, global health, and human security interventions. [This book] features twelve essays that fold back the curtains on the individual experiences, institutional practices, and cultural forces that shape humanitarian practice. Contributors offer vivid and often dramatic insights into the experiences of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas, national doctors coping with influxes of foreign humanitarian volunteers in Haiti, military doctors working for the British Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, and human rights-oriented volunteers within the Israeli medical bureaucracy. They analyze our contested understanding of lethal violence in Darfur, food-crisis responses in Niger, humanitarian knowledge in Ugandan IDP camps, and humanitarian departures in Liberia. They depict the local dynamics of healthcare delivery work to alleviate human suffering in Somali areas of Ethiopia, the emergency metaphors of global health campaigns from Ghana to war-torn Sudan, the fraught negotiations of humanitarians with strong state institutions in Indonesia, and the ambiguous character of research ethics espoused by missions in Sierra Leone. In providing well-grounded case studies, Medical Humanitarianism will engage both scholars and practitioners working at the interface of humanitarian medicine, global health interventions, and the social sciences. Editors Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick challenge the reader to reach a more critical and compassionate understand of humanitarian assistance. -- Inside jacket flaps

This book challenges the taken-for-granted status of organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres, by problematizing humanitarianism. In the experience of the Author working with such organizations, they are selective of the type of suffering that receives attention. Empirical studies of humanitarianism note that the suffering it purports to alleviate is increasing although aid is now highly organized, funded, and globalized. These observations inform the key question of the book: what purpose does the humanitarian organization serve? Rostis explores this question through a Foucauldian genealogy of humanitarianism focusing on the European colonial era and the Biafra War. The role of colonialism in the humanitarian organization is made apparent, and facilitates an interpretation of the results of his inquiry using postcolonial theory. This unique contribution to organization studies re-reads humanitarianism to show that humanitarian organizations essentially serve as global disciplinary institutions. It will be essential reading for scholars in political science, international sociology, organization studies and international affairs.

At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe. In recent years, Europe's borders have become new sites of intervention for traditional humanitarian actors and governmental agencies, but also, increasingly, for volunteer and activist initiatives led by "ordinary" citizens. This book sets out to interrogate the shifting relationship between humanitarianism, the securitization of border and migration regimes, and citizenship. Critically examining the "do it yourself" character of refugee aid practices performed by non-professionals coming together to help in informal and spontaneous manners, the volume considers the extent to which these new humanitarian practices challenge established conceptualisations of membership, belonging, and active citizenship. Drawing on case studies from countries around Europe including Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Russia, this collection constitutes an innovative and theoretically engaged attempt to bring the field of humanitarian studies into dialogue with studies of grassroots refugee aid and, more explicitly, with political forms of solidarity with migrants and refugees which fall between aid and activism.This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of humanitarian aid, European migration and refugees, and citizen-led activism.

Humanitarianism and media : introduction to an entangled history / Johannes Paulmann -- Humanitarian imagery -- Promoting distant children in need : Christian imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Katharina Stornig -- "Make the situation real to us without stressing the horrors" : children, photography and humanitarianism in the Spanish civil war / Rose Holmes -- Humanitarianism on the screen : the ICRC films, 1921-1965 / Daniel Palmieri -- "People who once were human beings like you and me" : why allied atrocity films of liberated nazi concentration camps in 1944-46 maximized the horror and universalized the victims / Ulrike Weckel -- The polemics of pity : British photographs of Berlin, 1945-1947 / Paul Betts -- The human gaze : photography after 1945 / Tobias Weidner -- Humanitarian media regimes -- On fishing in other peoples ponds : the freedom from hunger campaign, international fundraising, and the ethics of ngo publicity / Heike Wieters -- Advocacy strategies of western humanitarian NGOs from the 1960s to the 1990s / Valerie Gorin -- Humanitarianism and revolution : samed, the palestine red crescent society, and the work of liberation / Ilana Feldman -- Mediatisation of disasters and humanitarian aid in the Federal Republic of Germany / Patrick Merziger -- NGOs, celebrity humanitarianism, and the media : negotiating conflicting perceptions of aid and development during the "Ethiopian famine" / Matthias Kuhnert -- The audience of distant suffering and the question of (in)action / Maria Kyriakidou -- Index.

Guilloux explores the complexities and dilemmas of providing humanitarian aid to people in need and distress, especially underlined by Taiwan's unclear status in the global arena, and how in its efforts Taiwan faces both international isolation and opposition from the People's Republic of China at multiple levels.