Today’s Wars and the Challenge to Humanitarian Neutrality

Stoddard, Abby

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“…While a number of programs typical of post-conflict contexts has been set up by international agencies -local institution-building programs, grassroots reconciliation initiatives, basic service delivery as a means of building trust in local institutions -these remain on a small scale and geographically limited to government garrison towns (Brechenmacher 2019): "NGOs perform limited activities, and are not able to have an impact […] [delivering] only the bare minimum". 15 When the SCS was launched, approximately 80 local and international NGOs were operating in North-East Nigeria (Stoddard et al 2020). While international agencies mostly operated in Maiduguri, tensions with the military increased as reports of embezzlement of aid funds by soldiers and vigilantes multiplied.…”

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The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria

Simone

Iocchi

2022

Third World Quarterly

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In the light of an increasing shift from international interventionism based on liberal peacebuilding to shorterterm stabilization efforts, this article questions the persistence of the security-development nexus as a theoretical framework backing military and non-military action in conflict affected areas. It argues that the nexus has been weakened by the prominence gained by regional and national actors in the African continent trying to enforce "African solutions to African problems". Drawing on interviews with key informants and mobilizing relevant primary and secondary literature, the paper explores how ad hoc military coalitions created by African states to respond to crises in the continent are sanctioning the transition from long-term peace-building to short-term stabilization objectives. Analysing the Nigerian government's counterinsurgency strategy against Boko Haram, we argue that the country has completely dropped the ambition to tackle the root causes of the insurgency, and has instead turned to short-term (and short-sighted) security stabilization operations in line with the global trend of disengagement from active peacebuilding and development promotion. Thereby, we contend that the adoption of this kind of "African solutions to African problems" equals militarized crisis-management in the continent's peripheries without advancing sustainable solutions to conflicts.

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The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria

Simone

Iocchi

2022

Third World Quarterly

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The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward

Breslawski

2022

International Studies Review

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Most wars now take place within states instead of between them. In many cases, this requires humanitarians to contend with non-state armed groups in order to access civilians. While armed groups are widely perceived as a threat to the delivery of humanitarian aid, they vary in the extent to which they allow or hinder humanitarian access. Current understandings of this variation revolve around armed groups’ motivations to comply with international humanitarian law (IHL). However, most humanitarians acknowledge that using IHL in negotiations for humanitarian access with armed groups is not a viable strategy. I argue that scholars should broaden their study of humanitarian access by investigating the viability of other strategies and, in particular, the strategy of community acceptance. Drawing upon interviews with humanitarian practitioners, this article discusses the shortcomings of IHL in access negotiations with armed groups, the promises of community acceptance, and the implications of these arguments.

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Today’s Wars and the Challenge to Humanitarian Neutrality

Cited by 2 publications

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The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria

The end of the security–development nexus? Reflections from counterinsurgency in north-eastern Nigeria

The Shortcomings of International Humanitarian Law in Access Negotiations: New Strategies and Ways Forward

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