Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Literature Review 1. Risk Management in Humanitarian Relief Operations 2. Commercial Supply chain and Humanitarian Supply Chain – A Comparative Study 4. Case Study 1. The Yogyakarta Earthquake – Humanitarian Relief Operations through IFRC’s Decentralized Supply Chain. 5. Areas to focus for Future Research 1. Sourcing and Supplier Management 2. Performance Management
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Geopolitics in humanitarian action 2013 Course Syllabus Dr. Luz Paula Parra Rosales‚ luzpaulap@hotmail.com Lecture: Mondays‚ Wednesdays and Fridays Hours: 10 to 12 Introduction The analysis of how political decisions are conditioned by geographical settings is the subject matter of geopolitics. In purely spatial terms‚ geopolitics is the study of boundaries and areas. In conceptual terms‚ geopolitics comprises the study of international relations and the outcome of power struggles‚ at local
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Humanitarian intervention is the act of protecting people from degradation‚ deprivation and destruction physically‚ materially‚ socially and legally. The intervention is motivated by both altruistic humanitarian intentions and a philosophical paradigm that view individuals‚ communities and nation states as responsible to greater global ideals and humanity. Although the motivation to intervene and protect the rights of others is conceived or perceived as just‚ often the intention is obscured‚ at
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Title: ‘Discuss how response to a humanitarian disaster could be improved through vertical and horizontal collaboration between the various actors’ 1. PURPOSE 2. APPROACH 3. LIMITATIONS Firstly I will outline who the actual ‘actors’ involves in a humanitarian disaster are with the use of Kovács & Spens‚ 2007 diagram provided in our lecture notes. The whole idea of ‘Collaboration’ which has two separate dimensions: 1. Vertical collaboration i.e. between supplier sand customers
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o EWHA Woman’s university | Role of the media in shaping opinion in case of humanitarian interventions | Example of Somalia | | Mass Media and Society | June 2010 | ThesisThe way that TV news is creating emotion (through the power of images) in its audience is an essential element to understand how some humanitarian interventions have been decided | Summary Nowadays‚ communications come across boundaries‚ thus we can‚ more easily than never‚ be aware of what is happening in
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THE COMPLEXITY OF HUMANITARIAN AID AND DISASTER RELIEF IN LATIN AMERICA BY Michael Rea Advised by Dr. James Keese ANT 461‚ 462 Senior Project Social Sciences Department College of Liberal Arts CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY Spring 2013 Table of Contents Research Proposali Annotated Bibliographyii Outlinevi Abstract1 Introduction2 Actors in the Distribution of Latin American ‘Aid’3 U.S. Military’s Expanding Role in the Humanitarian Sector…………...6 The United States
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Critically examine the geopolitics of humanitarian aid within the 21st century. How have responses to famine changed over time and what are the key challenges to famine prevention today? Geopolitics have played a huge role in humanitarian aid in the current century. Because humanitarian aid is largely sponsored by western countries it poses a huge problem in the form of a “parochial form of theorizing"1 that supports the interests of the richest countries of the world. For the purpose of this essay
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Recent Scandals involving aid agencies The recent scandal in Chad involving European nationals allegedly in a scheme to abduct young African children under the pretext of medical emergency and to take them to Europe ostensibly to save them from the scourge of civil wars in Darfur and Chad so that the children would have a better life‚ has certainly put a searchlight on humanitarianism and on how Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operate in Africa. The scandal raises in particular
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The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue stated‚ “conditionality should not be applied to humanitarian action; that it is both ethically and practically inappropriate. Ethically it runs counter to the very nature of humanitarianism” It is for this unethicality that I stand in firm affirmation of the resolved: Placing political conditions on humanitarian aid to foreign countries is unjust. For clarification‚ I define Humanitarian Aid as “aid and action designed to save lives‚ alleviate suffering and maintain
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World Vision International’s AIDS Initiative: Challenging a Global Partnership World Vision International is a $1 Billion Christian relief and development partnership that is made up of 48 national members forming a federation. Founded in the United States by American Bob Pierce in 1950‚ the organizations mission was to implement common goals and strategies in fundraising‚ programming‚ and advocacy amongst the 48 independent members of the World Vision Partnership. WVI used its preexisting
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