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…
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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 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 …
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…
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…
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…
Confronted with bloody civil conflict, the UN, if it acts, often defaults to imposing an arms embargo. Yet while arms embargoes have been increasingly imposed since the end of the Cold War, there remains significant disagreement about the impact and effectiveness of arms embargo…
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…
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…
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…