PUT ‘HUMAN’ BACK IN HUMANITARIAN AID
14 Ekim 2015 - Articles
Traditional donors in the Western/Northern hemisphere, emerging donors in the Global South, andnewcomers from the periphery have, separately, defined humanitarian spaces of their own with differing priorities. However, these various attempts do not constitute a meaningful operational space. This is evident in light of the failing humanitarian response to tragic situations such as the Syrian refugee crisis. The reasons for this failure center around two issues in mainstream thought: First, lack of cooperation and coordination, and second, lack of official and civilian capacity for a functional humanitarian system. In other words, the actors of the humanitarian system have failed to coordinate amongst each other and cannot raise enough interest to generate help for their interventions.
