Humanitarian relief in a new context - empirical consequenses of the complex humanitarian emergencies in Great Lakes and Afghanistan
(2005)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis analyses the political implications of core traditional humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. With the end of the cold war the phenomena of ?new conflicts? have largely replaced traditional inter-state wars, hence the context of humanitarian emergency situations are no longer the same. Based on case studies of two humanitarian emergency relief operations evolving from fundamental different contexts, this thesis shows how humanitarian relief easily becomes integrated into the dynamics of a conflict. This was the case during the cold war époque as well as in today's ?new conflicts?. Despite the contex-tual change, I argue that many of the dilemmas confronting humanitarian relief workers are... (More)
- This thesis analyses the political implications of core traditional humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. With the end of the cold war the phenomena of ?new conflicts? have largely replaced traditional inter-state wars, hence the context of humanitarian emergency situations are no longer the same. Based on case studies of two humanitarian emergency relief operations evolving from fundamental different contexts, this thesis shows how humanitarian relief easily becomes integrated into the dynamics of a conflict. This was the case during the cold war époque as well as in today's ?new conflicts?. Despite the contex-tual change, I argue that many of the dilemmas confronting humanitarian relief workers are essentially the same today as they were before the end of the cold war. (Less)
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- author
- Hallberg, Emma
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Afghanistan, Great Lakes, Humanitarian Emergency Relief, Refugee Camps, Conflict, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1333020
- date added to LUP
- 2005-11-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-11-08 00:00:00
@misc{1333020,
abstract = {{This thesis analyses the political implications of core traditional humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. With the end of the cold war the phenomena of ?new conflicts? have largely replaced traditional inter-state wars, hence the context of humanitarian emergency situations are no longer the same. Based on case studies of two humanitarian emergency relief operations evolving from fundamental different contexts, this thesis shows how humanitarian relief easily becomes integrated into the dynamics of a conflict. This was the case during the cold war époque as well as in today's ?new conflicts?. Despite the contex-tual change, I argue that many of the dilemmas confronting humanitarian relief workers are essentially the same today as they were before the end of the cold war.}},
author = {{Hallberg, Emma}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Humanitarian relief in a new context - empirical consequenses of the complex humanitarian emergencies in Great Lakes and Afghanistan}},
year = {{2005}},
}