07 October 2024

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

"Fixing trust, pacts for the future, and who’s missing: A humanitarian lens on UNGA," The New Humanitarian, 23 Sept. 2024 [text]

Humanitarian NGOs and international transfer of personal data: An attempt to reconcile the rights of data subjects with their needs as affected populations (EJIL: Talk Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

"Local aid is missing from the UN’s new reform pact," The New Humanitarian, 3 Oct. 2024 [text]

The Pledge for Change: uniting to build a stronger aid ecosystem (HPN, Sept. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Are Goodwill Ambassadors Good for Business? The Impact of Celebrities on International Organization Fundraising," Journal of Experimental Political Science, FirstView, 1 Aug. 2024 [open access]

High-Level Humanitarian Donors Briefing Note: The State of Protection in 2024 (Global Protection Cluster, Oct. 2024) [text]

"Mapping refugee populations at high resolution by unlocking humanitarian administrative data," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:14 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

"'A season in hell': The Rwandan genocide and the ICRC's Fundamental Principles," International Review of the Red Cross, FirstView, 27 Sept. 2024 [free full-text]

Stronger Faster Safer for People on the Move (IFRC, Aug. 2024) [access]
- Report is available in English, French, Russian and Spanish.

"Towards common ground: Strategies for effective collaboration between the humanitarian and peacebuilding communities," International Review of the Red Cross, FirstView, 2 Oct. 2024 [free full-text]

Why They Gave: CARE and American Aid for Germany after 1945 (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024) [open access]
- "Embedding a diverse selection of case studies in the social, cultural, and political debates of the early postwar era, the study finds that these acts of giving were much more than altruistic deeds. In fact, donors used humanitarianism for their own purposes. Some gave to people who reflected their own worldview and sense of importance, or who could strategically advance their power on either side of the Atlantic. Others supported causes they considered essential to the progress of German-American relations in the early Cold War. In all cases, humanitarianism was at least as much about the donor as it was about the recipient."

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