Essays about: "humanitarian governance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words humanitarian governance.

1. 1. Mine Action and Climate Change: A Case Study of Water in Yemen

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Amani Abdulqader; [2023]
   Keywords : Climate change; conflict; Yemen; Mine action; water; peacebuilding; sustainable development; resource management; governance; droughts; floods; climate mitigation; risk and disaster management.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The following research explores a critical intersection between the work of mine action and the climate. It addresses the amplified impacts of climate change on water in Yemen, a country afflicted by protracted conflict and growing climate threats. READ MORE

3. 2. Concerns of Power and Policy in the Use of Biometrics by UNHCR

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Tamara Lynn Larter; [2023]
   Keywords : biometrics; Biometric Identification Management System; BIMS; biopolitics; digital technology; humanitarian governance; refugees; UNHCR;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the growing concerns surrounding the utilisation of biometric technology within humanitarian organisations, with a specific focus on the Biometric Information Management System (BIMS) operated by UNHCR. The study is based on a literature review in which themes of concern are first identified in theoretical literature followed by an examination of empirical literature (here termed ‘refugee-including literature’) to see if the concerns are shared. READ MORE

4. 3. Navigating Criminal Violence and Aid : Strategies to Negotiate Humantiarian Access in Guatemala

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Anastasia Simes Martinez; [2023]
   Keywords : Negotiation Strategies; Humanitarian Access; Criminal Violence; Criminal Armed Groups; Guatemala;

   Abstract : Due to the high rates of criminal violence and the alternative authority of Criminal Armed Groups (CAGs) in Guatemala humanitarian access faces multiple barriers in regions under CAG control, often leaving vulnerable populations without necessary humanitarian services. With limited institutional and conceptual frameworks to support negotiating for humanitarian access in these criminally violent contexts the international humanitarian system favors avoiding these contexts altogether to minimize the risk of their operations, but with the trends of violence increasing in the region not addressing the issue of negotiating for humanitarian spaces in these contexts only will result in crises worsening. READ MORE

5. 4. Surveillance, Survival, and Incentives to Stay: Three Approaches to Governing ‘Irregular’ Migration from the Gambia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Kira Twisttmann Askholm; [2022]
   Keywords : Migration governance; The Gambia; Irregular migration; Governmentality; Implementers of migration management; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Gambian migrants have been amongst the top-nationalities arriving to European shores by ‘irregular’ means. While ‘irregular’ migration is often extremely risky and dangerous, the Gambian government has only been limitedly engaged in governing this migration. Instead, several non-state actors have stepped in. READ MORE

6. 5. Controlling the Uncontrollable? : A qualitative content analysis of the United Nations Sendai Framework and its reflection of disaster risk reduction in a risk society.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Ida Lindberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Disaster risk reduction; the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030; natural hazards; the United Nations; climate change; control; resilience; uncertainty; humanitarian aid;

   Abstract : Occurrences of extreme weather events are increasing due to the ongoing climate change driven by human actions. In parallel, this triggers a growing need for humanitarian action in the future to help those impacted by disasters. READ MORE