Operational Stalemate or Politically Induced Failure?

On the Dynamics Influencing Humanitarian Aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tectum, 1. Edition 2012, 120 Pages
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Nowadays, humanitarians find themselves constantly challenged by adverse conditions and questioned about their instrumentalisation through international stakeholders and local powerbrokers. Economic aspects such as the so-called ”contract fever” and increasing convergence of humanitarian and political action have become common to almost all contemporary humanitarian emergencies. Aid organisations have multiplied in terms of financial and human resources, political weight and in numbers of single organisations. Thus the question emerges: Why is their action still characterised by a considerable degree of nonfulfillment concerning set targets and failure in providing substantial relief to populations affected by catastrophes? Employing the concepts of institutional economics of aid, state failure, and war economy, Christoph Vogel contributes to the current discourse on the role of humanitarian aid in violent conflict and unveils the above presented phenomena by analysing humanitarian aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ongoing ”complex emergency”.
Bibliographical data
Bibliographical data
Edition 1
ISBN 978-3-8288-2960-2
Subtitle On the Dynamics Influencing Humanitarian Aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Publication Date May 25, 2012
Year of Publication 2012
Publisher Tectum
Format Softcover
Language englisch
Pages 120
Copyright Year 2012
Medium Book
Product Type Scientific literature
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