Disaster Management and Multilateral Humanitarian Aid: Parallelism vs. Combined Forces

Kontextuelle Einbettung und Hintergründe des Buches

“…Spätestens mit dem Ende des Kalten Kriegs trat das Zivilschutzparadigma, wie in vielen anderen Ländern auch in Deutschland, fast vollständig hinter den Katastrophenschutz zurück [10]. Im Rahmen der Neuen Strategie zum Schutz der Bevölkerung [12] wurde das deutsche Krisenmanagement um die Jahrtausendwende neu strukturiert [26].…”

Disaster Situation and Humanitarian Emergency – In‐Between Responses to the Refugee Crisis in Germany

“…At the same time, however, the formal international humanitarian system faced great difficulties in applying the corresponding pattern of interpretation and positioning itself vis-a-vis the situation and developments in Europe due to its ideologically and historically shaped orientation towards low-income and fragile states-and the identity of humanitarian aid to bring aid from countries of the Global North to the Global South (cf. Bragg, 2015): "Established humanitarian actors found it difficult to respond [. .…”

“…There are approaches that argue in a similarly constitutive way as for the disaster case, when it is said that wherever humanitarian actors are deployed or humanitarian principles are applied as in the case of the GRC and ERUs or the waiting rooms in Bavaria, there is also a humanitarian emergency (Bragg, 2015). The situation in Germany also shows some analogies to humanitarian emergencies in the international humanitarian system: the beneficiaries were refugees, who are now also the central recipients of international humanitarian aid.…”

“…At the same time, however, the formal international humanitarian system faced great difficulties in applying the corresponding pattern of interpretation and positioning itself vis‐à‐vis the situation and developments in Europe due to its ideologically and historically shaped orientation towards low‐income and fragile states—and the identity of humanitarian aid to bring aid from countries of the Global North to the Global South (cf. Bragg, 2015): “Established humanitarian actors found it difficult to respond […] in a context that was so ‘close to home’” (Borton and Collinson, 2017: 27). The widespread expectation that the EU (and its member states), as the largest common economic area in terms of GDP, would be able to handle the situation—relatively small in comparison with other emergencies—with its “own” capacities stood in the way of the pattern of interpretation (Borton, 2016; DeLargy, 2016; Philipps, 2019).…”

Non-state actors and education as a humanitarian response: role of faith-based organizations in education for Syrian refugees in Turkey

“…Whereas humanitarian action became the subject matter of several studies with considerable "interdisciplinary fragmentation" (Zwitter et al 2014;3, Roberts 1996, Kuijt 2014, Bragg 2015, Betts 2011, Agblorti 2011, Forte 2014, Ryfman 2007, until recently, education provision as humanitarian assistance remained understudied to a great extent (Sinclair 2002;21, Davies and Talbot 2008, Aguilar and Retemal 2009, Bragg, 2015. One possible reason for this is that education was not viewed as a central pillar of the humanitarian response alongside nourishment, shelter, and health services until relatively recently (O'Rourke 2015, Burde 2014, Nicolai 2003.…”