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Miliband, David; Gurumurthy, Ravi: Improving humanitarian aid : how to relief more efficient and effective. - S. 118-129

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Which Careers Count? -- Heroes Abroad -- In the Office -- Disaster Relief -- Medical Aid -- Disaster Prevention -- Sanitation -- Helping Refugees -- Famine Relief -- Development Projects -- Working with Children -- Risks and Rewards -- Could You Have A Career That Counts? -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Websites -- Index -- Back Cover

International humanitarian aid today -- Humanitarian organizations and jobs -- The reality of working in humanitarian aid -- Core competencies in humanitarian action: soft skills -- Core competencies: hard skills -- Experiences -- Networks -- Job search -- After the job offer.

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UN HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS INVOLVING ELEMENTS OF ENFORCEMENT ARE LIKELY TO BE THE RULE IN THE FUTURE. FOR HUMANITARIAN AID, THE UN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WOULD RECRUIT PERSONNEL FROM THE EXISTING AGENCIES DIRECTLY INTO A NEW COMBINED MILITARY AND CIVIL UN SECRETARIATE. FOR THE MILITARY, UNIFIED COMMAND CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED WITH WITH UN-SANCTIONED, SUB-CONTRACTED OPERATIONS UNDER CHAPTER VIII.

The article examines the relationship between humanitarianism, security, and ethics in the case of the provision of medical humanitarian aid by Israel to casualties from the Syrian civil war, between 2013 and 2018. We argue that this humanitarian project differs from the type of humanitarian intervention commonly seen in conflict zones and can be identified as a new form of humanitarian governance. Our case study deals with humanitarian care provided in the country of origin of the medical and security forces involved, rather than in the country of the injured. In this articulation of humanitarianism at home a new nature of life governance and new subjects of security, emerge. We argue that the politics of life shifts and is subordinated to two different ethical frameworks founded on two different logics: that of the human (as in the type of medical treatment seen in traditional humanitarian aid provision, which is often related to short-term immediate treatment) and that of the citizen (the standard of care provided to all official residents of Israel. The conflict between these two moralities, the shifting standard of medical treatment, and the new medical-security space – together, raise a new set of ethical and political questions.