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Humanitarian Ngo'S, (In-)Security And Identity: Epistemic Communities and Conflict Aid Governance

by Andrea Schneiker , Nana K. Poku
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781472438072
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: T&F
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 164
  • Original Price: GBP 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 450 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Philanthropy & Charity, Peace, and NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)

Increasingly humanitarian NGOs operate in the context of armed conflicts where the security risks are higher than in contexts of natural disaster. Working in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is particularly dangerous for humanitarians. This existential threat affects the physical existence of aid workers and the implementation of humanitarian programs, and the core beliefs of humanitarians and the underlying principles of humanitarian action. For NGOs it is difficult to accept that they are attacked despite their good intentions, sometimes even by the very communities they seek to help. For these reasons, humanitarian NGOs have to change their approaches to security by not only adapting their policies, procedures and structures to the changing environment, but also reviewing the underlying principles of their work. This book contributes to debates by demonstrating how issues of (in)security affect humanitarian NGOs and the humanitarian identity, situating the structural changes within the humanitarian NGO community in the context of conflict aid governance and explains how non-state actors establish their own governance structures, independent from state-sponsored solutions, and contributes to the emerging literature on the redefinition of the concept of epistemic communities.

Andrea Schneiker is Professor of Political Science at the University of Siegen. She received her PhD in political science from the University in MÃ1/4nster. She has published in Disasters and VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, as well as in Millennium, Comparative European Politics, Security Dialogue and Cambridge Review of International Affairs (all together with Jutta Joachim).

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