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). Pendle , N. ( 2015 ), ‘ “They are Now Community Police”: Negotiating the Boundaries and Nature of the Government in South Sudan Through the Identity of Militarised Cattle-Keepers ’, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights , 22 : 3 , 410 – 34 . Petroni , S. , Steinhaus , M. , Stevanovic-Fenn , N. , Stoebenau , K. and Gregowski , A. ( 2017 ), ‘ New Findings on Child Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa ’, Annals of Global Health , 83 : 5 –6, 781 – 90 . Plan International ( 2018 ), Adolescent Girls in Crisis
, a neo-humanitarianism from World War II through the end of the Cold War and a liberal humanitarianism from the end of the Cold War to the present. In this vein, other authors have explored different expressions of humanitarianism during the same period ( Hoffman and Weiss, 2006 ; Kahn and Cunningham, 2013 ). Volha Piotukh (2015) , in addition to following the above classification, delves into the nature and implications of this ‘“new” humanitarianism’. Specifically, she proposes to analyse the multiplication of rationalities and technologies of power that are
inequality, continue to hinder the effectiveness of these initiatives. The goal of the mother-to-mother and father-to-father support groups was to achieve improved nutrition for child and mother. The primary goal of the project was not gender transformative by design. While all Save the Children projects must be at minimum gender sensitive, humanitarian projects are rarely designed to be gender transformative. This research hopes to change some of these trends and assumptions. Gender Transformative Action in Humanitarian Emergencies The nature of humanitarian
. Atmeh – A Change of Direction In 2013, camps were set up in Atmeh and all along the border with Turkey to provide shelter for thousands of displaced people fleeing the bombing. MSF set up mobile teams tasked with health and vaccine education not only in the camps, but also in the surrounding villages. The hospital focused on treating burns victims because of a growing number of injuries of this nature caused by bombs, artisanal refining processes and
protect. It is very likely that humanitarians will be the target of further campaigns. MSF’s experience in the field of Mediterranean search and rescue operations, as outlined here, raises three key lessons for the future. Firstly, humanitarians need to better understand the nature of the threat itself, and learn to recognise it when it appears. Just as humanitarians need to understand who is acting and how in the physical spaces they work in, so too will they need to
proved useful in overcoming some language barriers, though others persisted ( Munro, 2013 ). The Haiti earthquake illustrates the multilingual nature of humanitarian crises and the importance of translation, as well as the close connection between language and humanitarian ICT innovations. These features are not unique to the Haiti earthquake, and many crises occur in contexts where linguistic diversity is greater. A recent example of the need for translation and interpreting
larger colonialist, imperialist, ideological and cultural frameworks. These movies fit into the needs-based paradigm that prevailed in the humanitarian system until the shift to a more rights-based approach in the 1970s. Yet, these films also highlight contradictions. Although humanitarian organizations commonly idealized humanitarianism as neutral and apolitical in the 1920s, they used cinema as a ‘speaking out’ strategy to raise awareness of the extent of the crises, but not to call attention to the nature of the problems. Far different from other human rights
refugees’ lives are not affected by conflict and displacement, which undoubtedly are disruptive forces with long-term impacts for refugees. This paper takes a different focus, shifting from assuming causation to raising questions about the assumptions made by humanitarian actors about the types and nature of gender norm change during displacement. The paper suggests that assumptions about refugees may guide humanitarian actors in the urgency of the humanitarian response ( Smith, 2019 ). For
and his organisation aimed to carve out a disruptive style of engagement. This was reflected in the nature of the organisation, its embrace of alternative narratives around the Congo and its emphasis on supporting local organisations. Yet, Affleck’s engagement only reflected and reinforced the elite politics of humanitarianism and development. It did this through relying on a strategic management consulting firm to establish the organisation and select an issue area
’s nature is needs-/service-based. South Sudanese refugees engage with humanitarian and other non-settlement actors as logical sources of assistance and support. These formal support channels (social linkages) are the GBV ‘service providers’. In this context, these are the non-refugee individuals affiliated with various institutions, either Ugandan or international organisations, that cater to the needs of GBV survivors, like protection assistants