Proceedings of KDD 2020 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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The Left and Humanitarian Intervention [PDF]
Although the author concedes that much criticism from the left alleging ulterior imperialist motives of missions for “humanitarian intervention” is valid; nevertheless, the author argues that it would be wrong to rule out the concept of humanitarian ...
van der Linden, Harry
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Creating an institutional ecosystem for cash transfer programming: Lessons from post-disaster governance in Indonesia [PDF]
Humanitarian and disaster management actors have increasingly adopted cash transfer to reduce the sufferings and vulnerability of the survivors. Case transfers have also been used as a critical instrument in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, academic work on humanitarian and disaster-cash transfer related issues remains limited.
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Authorising humanitarian intervention: A five-point defence of existing multilateral procedures [PDF]
Even scholars who support multilateralism in principle frequently question the value of securing approval from existing multilateral bodies for humanitarian intervention. The United Nations (UN) and regional organisations such as NATO, the argument goes,
Recchia, S
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HumSet: Dataset of Multilingual Information Extraction and Classification for Humanitarian Crisis Response [PDF]
Timely and effective response to humanitarian crises requires quick and accurate analysis of large amounts of text data - a process that can highly benefit from expert-assisted NLP systems trained on validated and annotated data in the humanitarian response domain.
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Humanitarian Intervention: Preventing Or Prolonging Human Rights Violations [PDF]
This thesis was written to redefine successful humanitarian intervention under my own criteria. By analyzing the course of action of two notable humanitarian intervention campaigns, Kosovo and Libya, I argue that both were humanitarian failures and did ...
Gerow, Ashley Melanie+1 more
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Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities [PDF]
: The chapter explores continuities in modern British humanitarianism at its birth two hundred years ago and today. Modern British humanitarianism arose out of the contradictions between humanist ideals, expanding social sympathies, and fears of radical ...
Pupavac, Vanessa
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The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
1. Introduction Don E. Scheid Part I. Intervention and Debate: 2. The responsibility to protect and the war in Libya Tzvetan Todorov 3. Revisiting armed humanitarian intervention: a 25-year retrospective George R. Lucas, Jr Part II. Moral Perspectives: 4.
Don E. Scheid
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Sport for humanitarian action. A Do No Harm approach
Sport for humanitarian action (SHA) refers to the investment and intervention activities, which use sport as an instrument to achieve humanitarian action purposes, such as, alleviate suffering, peace-building, maintain human dignity and protect victims ...
José Antonio León Barrena
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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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