. These reflections may be at odds with how the professionalisation of security has given rise to a separate set of security concerns and actors, or, in other words, how the issue of humanitarian security has largely been addressed as an isolated and distinct issue. But what all the contributions to the issue demonstrate is that humanitarian security is not and cannot ever be tackled separately from broader humanitarian dynamics. Another feature of many discourses on humanitarian security is that
imperatives of the New Public Management. And NGOs used these reforms to accelerate the professionalisation of the aid sector ( Fiori et al ., 2016 ). But at the turn of the millennium, there were indications of a downturn in the influence of humanitarian ideas on Western geostrategy. The strategic value of humanitarian intervention diminished as the US launched its totalising war on terror. Humanitarianism was little more than an afterthought to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Since then, despite the continued rise in donations to
. ( 2016 ), ‘ Minor Miracle or Historic Failure Ahead for UN ’, Refugees Deeply , 8 August, www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/08/long-read-minor-miracle-or-historic-failure-ahead-for-u-n-summit (accessed 25 July 2018) . Dauvin , P. ( 2004 ), ‘ On Being a Humanitarian Aid Worker under an Imposed Code of Professionalisation ’, Revue
( Bugnion, 2003 : 125–6; Taithe, 2016 : 43–7). However, it is over the past thirty years that these concerns have been addressed by increasingly professionalised approaches ( Gentile, 2011 ; Neuman, 2016a : 26-28; Stoddard et al. , 2006 : 21–35). The expansion and professionalisation of efforts to protect the local civilian population in contexts of armed conflict is evident in the range of policy statements, handbooks and guidelines ( Global Protection
with decision-makers and influencers to secure incremental outcomes. Advocacy also represents a professionalisation of activism, manifest in the emergence of a new broker class to represent the interests of third parties – advocacy is largely done on behalf of someone, whereas activists often tend to have a material stake in the issue ( de Waal, 2015 : 23). Humanitarian advocacy can be defined as a process or a series of actions aimed at influencing
from the coordination point of view and from the perspective of partners, which would include patients, because they are partners when facing such heavy treatments. Bertrand: I would like to return to a few things. The first one is the metaphor of flight simulator, which seems to me to be a recurrent image in management discourses. Peter Walker and others discussing professionalisation in humanitarian work often made reference to the transformation of the air industry, from accident prone to
changing the architectural footprint of aid installations – the ‘bunkerisation’ of aid compounds and operations, evidenced by high walls, razor wire and armed guards ( Duffield, 2012 ; Neuman and Weissman, 2016 ; Weigand and Andersson, 2019 ). Securitisation is also evident in the professionalisation and privatisation of security staff in the aid sector ( Chisholm, 2017 ; Beerli and Weissman, 2016 ). The sociopolitical and economic drivers that might
extensive and the ongoing damage to its moral reputation profound. We have stark reality contrasted with idealistic vision. Humanitarians need the hope – how else would they get up and go to work? – but they experience the reality, too. Why has this dissonance not broken humanitarianism apart? For a variety of familiar reasons. One is institutional inertia – there are a lot of organisations and individual careers riding on the continuation of the humanitarian project. A second is professionalisation, the careers people have built as humanitarian
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