Suchergebnisse

Der Artikel befasst sich mit den Möglichkeiten einer humanitären Unterstützung während einer demokratischen Transformation in Kuba. Zunächst stellt der Autor drei Faktoren US-amerikanischer humanitärer Hilfe in bisherigen Einsätzen vor. Danach wird die Strategie der humanitären Hilfe im Hinblick auf deren Eckpfeiler und Probleme erläutert. (DSE/DÜI)

Major catastrophes appear to be inevitable given the current demographic transition, the growth of mega-cities in disaster hotspots, the predicted effects of global climate change, and the crucial relationship between natural disasters and complex political emergencies. Disaster prevention, preparedness and contingency planning will be effective only if trained personnel are available to develop these plans and implement them in a timely manner. Workforce migration, driven by poverty, insecurity and lack of opportunity, creates a leadership and skills vacuum that further increases the vulnerability of those who remain. Sustainable solutions to the problems of disasters and development will only be achieved when poor people have local access to Fair Training.

Humanitarian assistance has attracted the attention of the global community in recent years and the conceptual framework for participation in the humanitarian assistance operations is gaining increasing urgency among policy makers of the world. While the humanitarian gesture – the will to relieve the suffering of others- is centuries old and genuinely global, has been present in various forms throughout the human civilisation often in the form of food or material aid providing during famine, drought or natural disaster. With the end of Cold War, both the concept and the practice of the humanitarian assistance has significantly changed due to rising armed and ethnic conflicts, which offer much broader and long term objectives, such as development and peace. After the end of cold war Humanitarian assistance has emerged as an important mission for major militaries around the world and the mission that was largely left to the organisations such as the International Red Cross has now become an important part of the security agenda of nations with significant military capability. Since independence from Britain, which coincided with the partition of the subcontinent, India has come to the aid of people in need. Due to the significant expansion of the Indian economy from the last decades, the availability of greater financial resources in hand and a sense of growing regional and international responsibilities, India has revived and rejuvenated its tradition of giving humanitarian assistance. Although not formulated in policy, India's approach to Humanitarian assistance is derived from set of principles and priorities derived from the core values of its foreign policy. The purpose of the paper is to provide an introduction to the emergence of the international humanitarian assistance system with a review of the principles of humanitarian assistance. The paper also focuses on India's conception of humanitarian assistance and its underlying principles, motives and priorities for providing humanitarian assistance.