Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience - download pdf or read online

By Claire Magone,Michael Neuman,Fabrice Weissman

From overseas NGOs to UN organisations, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged "clash of civilizations", our "humanitarian area" is shrinking. positioned in a different way, the liberty of motion and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded as a result of radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of nation sovereignty over reduction actors and policies.

The goal of this e-book is to problem this assumption via an research of the occasions that experience marked MSF's heritage considering 2003 (when MSF released its first normal paintings on humanitarian motion and its relationships with governments). It addresses the evolution of humanitarian ambitions, the resistance to those pursuits and the political preparations that overcame this resistance (or that did not do so). The members search to examine the political transactions and balances of strength and pursuits that let reduction actions to maneuver ahead, yet which are frequently masked via the lofty rhetoric of "humanitarian principles". They specialise in one key query: what's an appropriate compromise for MSF?

This e-book seeks to puncture many of the myths that experience grown up over the 40 years given that MSF used to be based and describes intimately how the beliefs of humanitarian ideas and "humanitarian area" working in clash zones are in truth illusory. How, in truth, it's the grubby negotiations with various events, each one of whom have their very own vested pursuits, which may permit organizations resembling MSF to function in a given situation state of affairs - or not.

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