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64 result(s) for 'european studies' within Journal of International Humanitarian Action

1. Lessons from the Interagency Emergency Health Kit for access to essential medicines in Canada

   Despite Canada’s efforts to position itself as a global health leader, important medicines, including multiple drugs found on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, are not available domestically. Of the f...

   Authors: Adam R. Houston and Jason W. Nickerson

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2019 4:2

   Content type: Commentary Published on: 16 January 2019

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2. Culture’s influence on social network vulnerabilities for ethnic minorities in rural disaster events

   This paper aims to explain survey findings regarding disaster recovery processes among ethnic groups in a rural Texas community. The research was conducted over a 4-year period with most of the survey data col...

   Authors: Kim B. Galindo, Zohreh R. Eslami and Hassan Bashir

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2018 3:17

   Content type: Research article Published on: 6 November 2018

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3. Classical humanitarianism and resilience humanitarianism: making sense of two brands of humanitarian action

   Humanitarian aid has long been dominated by a classical, Dunantist paradigm that was based on the ethics of the humanitarian principles and centred on international humanitarian United Nations agencies and non...

   Authors: Dorothea Hilhorst

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2018 3:15

   Content type: Research article Published on: 10 September 2018

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4. Practices and consequences of using humanitarian technologies in volatile aid settings

   This article presents the results of an exploratory study into aid agencies’ use of technologies for security purposes. Since there appears to be a consensus in the aid sector that areas of operations are incr...

   Authors: Jori Pascal Kalkman

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2018 3:1

   Content type: Research article Published on: 11 January 2018

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5. Getting relief to marginalised minorities: the response to cyclone Komen in 2015 in Myanmar

   Little academic research has examined the challenges humanitarian actors face or the strategies they develop in the increasingly numerous authoritarian and low-intensity conflict settings. Based on 4 months of...

   Authors: Isabelle Desportes

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2019 4:7

   Content type: Research Article Published on: 28 March 2019

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6. Search and rescue with autonomous flying robots through behavior-based cooperative intelligence

   A swarm of autonomous flying robots is implemented in simulation to cooperatively gather situational awareness data during the first few hours after a major natural disaster. In computer simulations, the swarm...

   Authors: Ross D. Arnold, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi and Toshiyuki Tanaka

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2018 3:18

   Content type: Research article Published on: 5 December 2018

   The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2019 4:12

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7. Non-state actors and education as a humanitarian response: role of faith-based organizations in education for Syrian refugees in Turkey

   In the shadow of the Syrian conflict generating millions of displaced people, education provision for Syrian children has become one of the biggest challenges for Turkey. This paper sheds light on the role and...

   Authors: Aslıhan Tezel Mccarthy

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2017 2:13

   Content type: Research article Published on: 13 November 2017

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8. Understanding sexual violence in armed conflict: cutting ourselves with Occam’s razor

   Sexual violence has been firmly put on the internal agenda of the humanitarian community. Despite commendable advances in both policy and practice, there continues to be a gap between what is recommended and t...

   Authors: Rosanne Marrit Anholt

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2016 1:6

   Content type: Commentary Published on: 30 June 2016

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9. Responding to mental health vulnerability in Maltese detention centres: the use of psychological support groups as an intervention tool

   Maltese immigration law means that individuals seeking asylum in this country undergo a period of mandatory detention upon arrival lasting a maximum of 18 months. During their stay in detention centres, these ...

   Authors: Julian Caruana and Alexia Rossi

   Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2019 4:4

   Content type: Research Article Published on: 19 February 2019

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10. Post-conflict contexts and humanitarian organizations: the changing relationship with states

    The operational environments for humanitarian international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are conflict zones and situations of natural and man-made disasters. To INGOs, these are defined as “humanitar...

    Authors: Andrew J. Cunningham

    Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2017 2:7

    Content type: Report Published on: 11 September 2017

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11. Social capital in vulnerable urban settings: an analytical framework

    Social capital has been identified as crucial to the fostering of resilience in rapidly expanding cities of the Global South. The purpose of this article is to better understand the complexities of urban socia...

    Authors: Desire Mpanje, Pat Gibbons and Ronan McDermott

    Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2018 3:4

    Content type: Research article Published on: 2 April 2018

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12. Understanding disasters: managing and accommodating different worldviews in humanitarian response

    Over the past decade, humanitarian events affected on average 120 million people annually. Whilst many of these events are human-induced, a large number of the 400 or so complex humanitarian emergencies that r...

    Authors: Matthew Clarke and Brett W. Parris

    Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2019 4:19

    Content type: Research article Published on: 22 November 2019

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13. Towards an holistic approach to energy access in humanitarian settings: the SET4food project from technology transfer to knowledge sharing

    The increasing number of displaced people in the world not only requires rapid humanitarian actions, but also attention to host communities and a holistic and long-term vision. Energy has not been really consi...

    Authors: Jacopo Barbieri, Fabrizio Leonforte and Emanuela Colombo

    Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2018 3:11

    Content type: Report Published on: 1 July 2018

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14. Health service utilization and access to medicines among Syrian refugee and host community children in Lebanon

    With over 500,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon, we undertook this study to assess unmet child health needs and health service utilization among Syrian refugees and affected host communities in Lebanon wi...

    Authors: Emily Lyles, Baptiste Hanquart, Michael Woodman and Shannon Doocy

    Citation: Journal of International Humanitarian Action 2016 1:10

    Content type: Research article Published on: 16 July 2016

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