The Impact of Terror on Humanitarian Aid Workers and Models of Support

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Dubrow ◽  
Michael McNulty ◽  
Penelope Curling
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
The Impact

The Impact of Integrated UN Missions on Humanitarian NGO Security

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-225
Author(s):  
Emizet F. Kisangani ◽  
David F. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Intrastate Conflict ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Generalized Methods Of Moments ◽  
To Come ◽  
Methods Of Moments ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, the UN has extended many of its missions in conflict zones to include political, military, and humanitarian activities. Many humanitarian nongovernmental organizations have been critical of these “integrated” UN missions, claiming that they can blur the distinction between political, military, and humanitarian action, thus placing humanitarian aid workers at risk of retaliation from warring factions opposed to the UN’s political objectives. This proposition is empirically tested using generalized methods of moments statistical analysis of sixty-seven countries that experienced intrastate conflict between 1997 and 2018. When assessing attacks in general—to include the sum of aid workers killed, wounded, and kidnapped—the results indicate that humanitarian aid workers are more likely to come under attack in countries that have an integrated UN mission. However, when the attacks are assessed separately, results show that this relationship holds only with aid workers who are killed in the field.

Twenty years after Novye Atagi: A call to care for the carers

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (901) ◽  
pp. 299-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Hensch
Keyword(s):  
Healing Process ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWorking in the humanitarian sector as an aid worker has become a dangerous endeavour, with attacks against humanitarian workers becoming more common. In this personal story by a former head of office at an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) surgical hospital, a short, violent encounter leads to a long journey of recovery. There is an important role for the community in supporting the healing process; the author suggests that an integral and collaborative involvement by organizations like the ICRC is effective in addressing the impact of violence directed towards humanitarian aid workers.

Sojourn Abroad: Adjustment Experiences of Missionaries and Humanitarian Aid Workers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette H. Bikos ◽  
Michael Klemens ◽  
Leigh Randa ◽  
Alyson Barry ◽  
Thomas Bore
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers

scholarly journals Work–Life Balance Among Humanitarian Aid Workers

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1191-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Visser ◽  
Melinda Mills ◽  
Liesbet Heyse ◽  
Rafael Wittek ◽  
Vincenzo Bollettino
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Life Domain ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Trust In Management ◽  
Humanitarian Work

A limited body of research has examined satisfaction with work–life balance of expatriate workers who live abroad, residing outside the typical “family” or “life” domain. This study aims to demonstrate how and under which organizational circumstances job autonomy can increase work–life balance satisfaction of humanitarian aid expatriates. We hypothesize that especially in humanitarian work, trust in management can buffer potential negative effects of high autonomy. We test our hypothesis by means of ordinal logistic regression, using survey data collected among expatriates of the Operational Center Amsterdam of Médecins Sans Frontières ( N = 142). Results reveal that high levels of autonomy are positively related with work–life balance satisfaction when trust in the management of the organization is high. When trust in management is low, the effect of high autonomy on work–life balance satisfaction is negative. This implies that trust in management indeed buffers negative effects of high autonomy among expatriate humanitarian aid workers.

scholarly journals Vicissitudes of laughter

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-300
Author(s):  
Kevin McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Work ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper is concerned with the way that laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation in talk among humanitarian aid workers as they describe their professional activities in settings of armed conflict. I first set out to situate my analysis within the tradition of work in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM), exploring how that approach differs in significant ways from work in pragmatics and related traditions of discourse analytic research. Unlike the latter approaches, EM examines laughter for the intelligibility it is deployed by speakers to furnish, so that the presumption of laughter’s revelatory nature which characterizes a pragmatically-oriented analysis is seen as a participant resource for rendering the situated significance of actions visible by and for the involved parties of a given episode of interaction. Following this, I examine talk from open-ended interviews with aid agency operatives who work in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, exploring how laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation where the potential accusation of opportunism arises in accounts of personal job satisfaction as against the legitimacy otherwise afforded with an appeal to altruism and self-sacrifice. Where speakers attend to the criticism of humanitarian activity for its significance in affecting outcomes of warfare, the management of these different demands is accomplished in reflexive work to ironize their own and others’ formulations of motivation for pursuing humanitarian work.

Occupational health for humanitarian aid workers in an Ebola outbreak

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannele Haggman ◽  
Joyce Kenkre ◽  
Carolyn Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers

Applied improvisation training for disaster readiness and response

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Tint ◽  
Viv McWaters ◽  
Raymond van Driel
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Current Standard ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Crisis Scenarios ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce applied improvisation (AI) as a tool for training humanitarian aid workers. AI incorporates principles and practices from improvisational theatre into facilitation and training. It is an excellent modality for training aid workers to deal with crisis and disaster scenarios where decision-making and collaboration under pressure are critical. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a theoretical base for understanding skills needed in disaster response and provides a case for innovative training that goes beyond the current standard. AI principles, activities and case examples are provided. Interviews with development experts who have participated in AI training are excerpted to reveal the impact and promise of this methodology. Findings – Different from typical training and games, which simulate potential crisis scenarios, AI works with participants in developing the skills necessary for success in disaster situations. The benefit is that workers are better prepared for the unexpected and unknown when they encounter it. Research limitations/implications – The current paper is based on author observation, experience and participant interviews. While AI is consistently transformative and successful, it would benefit from more rigorous and structured research to ground the findings more deeply in larger evidence based processes. Practical implications – The authors offer specific activities, resources for many others and practical application of this modality for training purposes. Social implications – Its application has tremendous benefits in training for specific skills, in creating greater cohesion and satisfaction in work units and breaking down culture and language barriers. Originality/value – This work is original in introducing these training methods to humanitarian aid contexts in general, and disaster preparedness and response in particular.

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