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Humanitarian aid in the archives: introduction
Disasters, 2015How might historical perspectives assist the goal of improving humanitarian responses? This introduction to a special issue of Disasters on the history of humanitarian action explores this question and outlines how the other submissions to the edition, each with its own approach and focus area from the nineteenth‐century to the present today, make ...
Davey, Eleanor, Scriven, Kim
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Counterterrorism or Humanitarian Aid?
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2014Worsening situations around the world up the risks to providers.
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British Journal of Nursing, 2010
Having read many reports of the Haitian earthquake disaster, I am sure there are many nurses who would like to help but feel totally inadequate to volunteer. First of all, there is the problem of gaining relevant training and experience. There is no doubt that UK nursing education, even at degree level, is unlikely to prepare you adequately for the ...
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Having read many reports of the Haitian earthquake disaster, I am sure there are many nurses who would like to help but feel totally inadequate to volunteer. First of all, there is the problem of gaining relevant training and experience. There is no doubt that UK nursing education, even at degree level, is unlikely to prepare you adequately for the ...
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Securing Peace for Humanitarian Aid?
Journal of International Peacekeeping, 1998Multi‐dimensional UN humanitarian interventions involving elements of enforcement are likely to be the rule in the future. Peacekeeping can become a later phase in a wider process of peace support, which must start with securing peace as the overall priority, without which humanitarian aid becomes unduly compromised.
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Biosecurity for humanitarian aid
Science, 2021Matthijs P, van den Burg +15 more
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The Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid Decisions
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013AbstractHumanitarian aid can be seen as a political investment motivated by altruism or by economic benefits for the donor. Uncertainty in the returns to this investment may generate hysteresis effects and inertia in aid allocations. I model the allocation decisions of the three largest humanitarian aid donors: the US government, the UK government and ...
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Humanitarian Aid and Corruption
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009In the recent past we have seen a number of natural and man-made catastrophes where the international community has responded in providing the basic necessities of life such as food, shelter and medical supplies. There are however some problems with respect to the delivery of humanitarian aid/assistance to the victims of such disasters. These include a
Indira M. Carr, Susan C. Breau
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2011
This chapter contrasts the response to the Wenchuan earthquake (May 2008) which took place in a landlocked region of China with that of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which as an island nation, was theoretically easily accessible to external aid provision via air or sea.
Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit
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This chapter contrasts the response to the Wenchuan earthquake (May 2008) which took place in a landlocked region of China with that of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which as an island nation, was theoretically easily accessible to external aid provision via air or sea.
Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit
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JAMA, 1993
Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes, the world has yet to see a "peace dividend." Instead of two superpowers competing for sole possession of the best economic and political system, we now see numerous ethnic groups trying to found nations, define separate identities, and vent long-standing resentments.
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Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes, the world has yet to see a "peace dividend." Instead of two superpowers competing for sole possession of the best economic and political system, we now see numerous ethnic groups trying to found nations, define separate identities, and vent long-standing resentments.
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