The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the system is unable to address the record numbers of persons displaced by conflict and violence today. States have put up fences and adopted poli…
The politicization of humanitarian aid is one of the most polarizing issues facing the humanitarian sector today. There is a lack of consensus on the suitability and impact that aid politician has on humanitarian response efforts. Traditional humanitarians, known as Dunantists, …
With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, nation-States framed rules for their interaction with each other, rules that laid the foundation of modern International Law. The basis of this significant treaty was ‘Sovereignty’ of nation-States. It was recognized that each State was sove…
This thesis examines the context and practices of emotion management for National workers in International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) through a study of national workers recruited into disaster intervention in India. The research draws on postcolonial theory and prob…
The post-Cold war era marked the evolution in the changing nature of conflicts, transitioning from inter-state towards more complex intrastate encounters. This phenomenon consequently led to the increase of refugees and internally displaced persons which presented a set of key c…
This thesis project illustrates the way developments in the 1990s almost resulted in a complete revamp of the humanitarian system, if only the new ideas of military humanitarianism established during the post-Cold War period had not fallen short because of some major deficiencie…
On December 26, 2004, a catastrophic tsunami struck the Indian Ocean just off the coast of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This thesis will explore land tenure reform as an international intervention in Aceh, Indonesia, located on the island of Sumatra. Using a comparative ana…
Non-governmental humanitarian organizations not only deliver the overwhelming majority of the foreign assistance given by governments to countries in crisis, in many of those countries they also comprise the primary source of information upon which international actors base thei…
Forceful military humanitarian intervention in complex humanitarian emergencies has become a more frequent activity of states in the post-Cold War era. New notions that intervening militarily to alleviate human suffering is legitimate have challenged traditional views of state s…
This thesis examines the impact of counter-terrorism policies on the ability of humanitarian organizations to implement principled humanitarian assistance, especially for children as a beneficiary group, during humanitarian crises. It explores these dynamics through a case study…
The project, using the world culture theory, explores how modern international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) which provide humanitarian charitable relief assistance have enacted, innovated, and adapted to changes in the broader world culture over the past half century. …
This dissertation develops a theory regarding the conditions under which states will intervene militarily to end humanitarian crises abroad. I argue that states contemplating intervention are likely to undertake and sustain it only where they believe that they will be able to av…
The UN Charter acknowledges the right of the UN Security Council to use force to address threats to international peace and security in case of acts of aggression. The Charter, however, does not expressly recognize the right to use force to protect the people of a State against …