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Recent scholarship has highlighted the role of political and socioeconomic group inequalities, or horizontal inequalities, in provoking violent conflict. However, in most plural societies,...
This document provides an analysis of the Indian response to the 2004 tsunami, from the human rights perspective. The Guiding Principles outlined in the document also call on authorities to...
This issue of Humanitarian Exchange focuses on the response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, noting not only the mistakes made but also encouraging action on the lessons learned.
This Network Paper discusses livelihoodsbased livestock programming and its role in humanitarian emergency response. It highlights the importance of taking livelihood assets, in particular...
This document by USAID is a two page article about the role of hosting support related to humanitarian shelter needs. Humanitarian community actors have increasingly recognized in recent years the...
Much effort has focused on strengthening decentralised institutions, such as local government, to support local development. However, frequently the links between decentralised institutions and...
This publication provides frameworks around how to conceptualise risk. It also highlights tools and general best practice for undertaking risk assessment and disaster risk reduction.
"With growing numbers of displaced people in towns and cities, humanitarian and development actors need to rethink approaches to helping the urban displaced live in security and with dignity...
This paper discusses how a truly military humanitarian intervention can take place in a post-cold war world order dominated by western liberal democracies. The humanitarian interventions carried...
