@book{07379c557da14bcdadda1a41addf3221,
title = "Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security",
abstract = "This book presents a new framework of analysis to assess natural and man-made disasters and humanitarian crises, and the feasibility of interventions in these complex emergencies.The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in such crises – suchas in Haiti, Iraq and Sudan – and this volume aims to pioneer a theory-based,interdisciplinary framework that can assist students and practitioners in the fieldto acquire the skills and expertise necessary for evidence-baseddecision-making and programming in humanitarian action. It has four major objectives:• to provide a tool for diagnosing and understanding complex emergencies,and build on the concepts of state security and human security to provide a{\textquoteleft}Snap-Shot Analysis{\textquoteright} of the status quo;• to provide a tool for analyzing the causes of crises as well as the relatedstakeholder field;• to provide a frame to structure and analyze the information required toevaluate, monitor and/or design interventions for different actors on aproject and/or program level;• to combine concepts used in the humanitarian field with underlying theoryin a practically relevant way.",
keywords = "Humanitarian crises, Humanitarian aid, Context analysis, Stakeholder analysis, Evidence-based programming",
editor = "Liesbet Heyse and Andrej Zwitter and Rafael Wittek and Joost Herman",
note = "PEER REVIEW",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780415830393",
series = "Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding",
publisher = "Routledge",
}