State sovereignty and humanitarian intervention are two sides of a coin, presenting a threat to human rights enforcement, especially when human rights violation is done by the state. Failure from a state to provide human rights protection for its citizen
Anna Kharisma Fehmita Mubin
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Understanding humanitarian localization in Latin America—as local as possible: but how necessary?
This paper questions the pertinence of the humanitarian aid localization agenda in Latin America, at least in the narrow sense embraced by the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit.
Simone Lucatello, Oscar A. Gómez
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Humanitarian Intervention: Evolving Norms, Fragmenting Consensus (Remarks) [PDF]
Traditionally, the evolution of customary international law was understood as a gradual process: in some idealized model, we might see first a few states, and then a few more, implicitly agreeing to follow a practice, and then we would gradually begin to
Brooks, Rosa
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Leveraging Domain Knowledge for Inclusive and Bias-aware Humanitarian Response Entry Classification [PDF]
Accurate and rapid situation analysis during humanitarian crises is critical to delivering humanitarian aid efficiently and is fundamental to humanitarian imperatives and the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle. This data analysis can highly benefit from language processing systems, e.g., by classifying the text data according to a humanitarian ...
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Humanitarian Intervention in a Multipolar World [PDF]
Humanitarian intervention is at a crossroads. In theory, humanitarian intervention has made significant advances in recent years; the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine (or R2P) has achieved widespread adoption within a relatively short period of time.
Jones, Jesse
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Intervention and Non-Intervention in Syria [PDF]
Balancing humanitarian intervention with the possibility of a string of interventions leaving the U.S. overextended, broke and ineffective requires recognizing the perils, as well as value, of humanitarian ...
Mitchell, Lincoln A.
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Information Verification for Humanitarians: A Critical Review [PDF]
Quality humanitarian information is essential for efficient, effective and coordinated humanitarian responses. During crises, however, humanitarian responders rarely have access to quality information in order to provide the much-needed relief in a timely fashion.
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Proceedings of KDD 2021 Workshop on Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping: Harnessing Human-Machine Intelligence for High-Stake Public Policy and Resilience Planning [PDF]
Humanitarian challenges, including natural disasters, food insecurity, climate change, racial and gender violence, environmental crises, the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, human rights violations, and forced displacements, disproportionately impact vulnerable communities worldwide.
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Some Caution, Please: Applying the Concept of Moral Hazard to Humanitarian Intervention [PDF]
The concept of moral hazard, born in insurance studies, has recently been adopted by international relations theory where it is primarily applied to humanitarian intervention.
Veronika Bilkova
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Humanitarian Intervention: Time for Better Law
The United States’ April 6, 2017 missile strikes against Syria raise three fundamental questions about how we should assess military interventions taken for humanitarian ends but without Security Council authorization: First, is unilateral humanitarian ...
Harold Hongju Koh
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