Essays about: "the emergence of humanitarian intervention"

Found 2 essays containing the words the emergence of humanitarian intervention.

1. 1. Humanitarian intervention in the post-cold war era : a postcolonial critique on new interventionism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Misha Desai; [2014]
   Keywords : Postcolonialism; Sovereignty; Imperialism; Humanitarian Intervention; Post Cold War; Mänskliga rättigheter; Human rights; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The collapse of the Soviet Union saw a shift in the way the international community perceived humanitarian interventions and the principles of sovereignty. With the world no longer divided along ideological lines, the United Nations found itself drawn into conflicts of a different nature, which resulted in the development of a new ‘norm’ of intervention, which saw human rights being promoted to the detriment of state sovereignty. READ MORE

3. 2. Waves of Disaster – Waves of Relief : An Ethnography of Humanitarian Assistance to Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

   University essay from Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Jesper Bjarnesen; [2006]
   Keywords : Tsunami; Sri Lanka; humanitarian assistance; disaster; suffering; ;

   Abstract : Abstract This paper applies an impressionistic and reflexive genre of ethnography to understand the ethnographer’s meeting with the humanitarian aid workers in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. It offers an analysis of the political atmosphere in the country prior to the tsunami as a central framework for understanding current tensions and debates over the distribution of tsunami aid resources, and traces the emergence of what has been termed Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism. READ MORE