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Humanitarian Space: A review of trends and challenges

Event - Round-table - 20 October 2010 - 30 April 2011

This series undertook a critical examination of the evolving dynamics and challenges related to different aspects of humanitarian space and associated trends of politicisation and securitisation of assistance. The meetings addressed a number of key questions and issues that have important implications for the nature and conditions of humanitarian action in contexts where humanitarian space is deemed to be restricted or contracting.

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Humanitarian Space: concepts, definitions and uses

Event - Round-table - 20 October 2010

This meeting explored the various meanings and uses of humanitarian space and initiated a dialogue on how best to understand and apply the term and discuss the implications these have for understanding wider trends and challenges and developing appropriate responses.

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Praise for ‘the cowboys’ on World Humanitarian Day

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 August 2010

Today is the second annual World Humanitarian Day. The day aims to increase public awareness about humanitarian work and the importance of international cooperation, to honour humanitarian workers in the field , and commemorate all of those who have lost their lives in the line course of duty.

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Shifting Sands: The Search for Coherence Between Political and Humanitarian Action

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 August 2000

HPG Reports 8

Joanna Macrae and Nicholas Leader

This report examines the origins and evolution of the concept of policy coherence and its implications in practice. It is particularly concerned to understand the precise character of the new relationship proposed between aid and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.

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