Tag: humanitarian action
This article takes complex emergencies and the humanitarian response to them as its point of reference. It provides a critique of relief, development and the linking debate. Rather than being autonomous, relief is a developmental idea. However, development concepts have proven incapable of explaining permanent emergency. They also underestimate the extent of the North’s institutional… Read more
The Sphere Handbook is one of the most widely known and internationally recognised sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response. Because it is not owned by any one organisation, the Sphere Handbook enjoys broad acceptance by the humanitarian sector as a whole. The Sphere Handbook puts the… Read more
This paper is concerned with the principles of humanitarian action. It examines the efforts by international organisations to operationalise codes of conduct. Based on case studies in Sudan and Liberia, it assesses whether the legal content of these terms can determine the legitimacy of human-rights ‘conditionality’; and asks whether international law requires that humanitarian assistance… Read more