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Title:Politics, History and Problems of Humanitarian Assistance in Sudan
Authors:Middleton, NeilISNI
O'Keefe, PhilISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:33
Issue:109
Period:September
Pages:543-559
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:humanitarian assistance
foreign policy
History and Exploration
Politics and Government
international relations
Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports)
External links:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305624060101067
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4D1EA8D69F73868A3730
Abstract:It is increasingly widely recognized that humanitarian assistance is broadly understood in two distinct ways: one is to see it as a part of foreign policy, which is the customary position of donating States; the other is to see it as independent of governments and a matter of relieving suffering without distinction and is embodied in the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross/Red Crescent family. The present authors argue that any intervention is necessarily a political event and they support this contention with an examination of assistance in Sudan in general and Darfur in particular. In describing the way in which donating States concentrated on the settlement between Khartoum and south Sudan to the detriment of intervention in Darfur in time to forestall massive human slaughter, the authors are pointing to political failure. They also maintain that the consequence of not recognizing and examining the political nature of humanitarian assistance is to reduce people affected by emergencies of all kinds to the status of victim, which deprives them of the ability to be the principal agents of their own recovery. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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