Track I: Humanitarian Aid and Post-Conflict Development
January 28, 2006 by admin · Comments Off
| Panel I: The Four R’s of Post-Conflict Recovery: Rehabilitation, Reconstruction |
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| Panel II: The Professionalization of Humanitarian Aid |
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Humanitarian crises of the past decade reflect a changing political dynamic, in which the end of the cold war and the declining role of superpower regulation of regional and ethnic conflicts have contributed to the increasing prevalence of intra-state conflict and civil war. These crises, which typically occur in areas of grave underdevelopment or impoverishment, have trapped large numbers of people in environments torn by war, famine and disease. As evidenced in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, and elsewhere, these crises are characterized by targeted attacks on civilians, mass population dislocation, widespread human rights abuses, and a high level of insecurity for responders.
Humanitarian studies represent a new and evolving interdisciplinary arena. To cover the diverse topic areas in adequate depth at the graduate level requires expertise and curriculum offerings in a broad range of disciplines. Additionally, the debate in practitioner and academic circles over how to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian aid and development assistance is ongoing and intense. With the increasing professionalization of humanitarian and development assistance, and more and more academic institutions offering it as a field of study, now is an important time for the subject’s development. This panel will outline some of the major challenges facing the humanitarian aid field and discuss how to improve the effectiveness of aid, as well as asking probing questions about the role that humanitarian agencies play in conflicts. |
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