Tracking the Toll: Measuring Violence Against Aid Workers

Stoddard, Abby

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“…For instance, both Syria and Yemen appear on the list of the top 10 highest security incident contexts over the past decade (Aid Worker Security Database, 2023). Yet, this does not explain why security was not the highest priority for applicants from Africa where several countries also experience such high risks (Stoddard et al, 2021). Statistics on the frequency of security incidents in different humanitarian settings may not provide a complete understanding of why security is a salient challenge in those contexts.…”

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Challenges in humanitarian response implementation: a large‐scale review of aid worker perspectives

Bollettino,

Isely,

Nyarko

et al. 2023

Disasters

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Aid workers offer important perspectives for better understanding the most pervasive challenges that arise when implementing emergency response programming in humanitarian settings. This study provides a global review of these perspectives, derived from 4,679 applications of aid workers applying to the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership (NNPHL), in which applicants were asked to respond to the question, “What do you consider to be the biggest challenges in the implementation of emergency response programming in today's humanitarian settings.” Through a qualitative coding process, the research team identified 14 major challenges that were pervasive across the applicant responses and cross‐tabulated these with applicant demographics. Coordination (30%) and the operating environment (29.5%) were the most frequently reported challenges by the applicant pool. The study finds a significant association between challenges identified and certain demographic variables, including region of applicant origin, type of organization worked at, and number of years of experience. The results produced by the study's large sample size and methodology supplement a body of literature that is largely made up of small‐scale, context specific studies in which disaggregation of data by demographics is not possible.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges in humanitarian response implementation: a large‐scale review of aid worker perspectives

Bollettino,

Isely,

Nyarko

et al. 2023

Disasters

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“…The attacks on individual humanitarian organizations, such as the ones on the ICRC headquarters in Bagdad in October 2003, are indicative in this respect and the extent to which aid workers increasingly are intentionally targeted by armed actors. More generally, humanitarians nowadays are '[p]roviding aid in insecure environments' (Stoddard et al, 2009). Between 1997 and 2008, for example, the absolute number of violent incidents affecting aid workers increased about fivefold and the relative number of aid worker victims doubled (Stoddard et al, 2009, pp.…”

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Linking pins as drivers of interagency cooperation: humanitarian NGOs and security networks

Joachim

2020

Globalizations

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Scholars in the field of International Relations increasingly pay attention to interorganizational cooperation. Currently we know, however, more about why international organizations cooperate with one another and have only a rudimentary understanding of the ways in which this cooperation is established. To shed light on this 'blind spot' in the literature, we draw on the linking pin concept, which originated in organizational studies and has more recently been applied to International Relations where its definition and value-added remain nonetheless unclear. Based on an analysis of security-related cooperation among humanitarian NGOs, we illustrate the merit of this concept and further refine it. We show that the different roles that linking pins play and the interplay between them and their organization are key in the initiation of interagency cooperation.

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“…At least 82 aid workers, mostly nationals, have been killed since December 2013, and 15 have been killed in the first half of 2017 alone, earning South Sudan the ranking of worst country for incidents against aid workers in the past 2 years. In 2016, there were more than 4 times as many shooting attacks against aid workers in South Sudan than there were in the next-ranking country, Afghanistan 35 . Adding insult to injury, in 2017 the Government of South Sudan raised humanitarian aid worker fees 6-fold, from $600 to $3500, after outcries at a more egregious measure to increase them to $10 000; meanwhile, the government allocated over half of its budget to military spending 23…”

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“Lost Generation” in South Sudan: A Broader Approach Toward Peace Urgently Needed

Wild

Fallavier

Patel

2019

Disaster med. public health prep.

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What began in 2013 as the eruption of a political struggle between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka ethnic group, and then–vice president Riek Machar, a Nuer, has splintered into a multifaction conflict. A dizzying array of armed groups have entered the fray, many unmotivated by political leverage that conventionally brings parties to a conflict to the negotiating table. Two years and tens of thousands of deaths after the 2015 signing of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan, with no substantive progress toward meetings its terms, it is unrealistic to think that Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s recently announced High-Level Revitalization Forum will be sufficient to address the drivers of this conflict. Current policy proposals are poorly designed to address escalating intercommunal conflict and cattle raiding, both devastating forms of violence. As measures at the international level continue to be pursued, the conflict resolution strategy should also include a more comprehensive approach incorporating local actors in order to build momentum toward long-term stability. In this article, we highlight gaps in the current dialogue around a political solution in South Sudan, as well as domains that must be part of the next push for peace. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:663–671)

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Tracking the Toll: Measuring Violence Against Aid Workers

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Challenges in humanitarian response implementation: a large‐scale review of aid worker perspectives

Challenges in humanitarian response implementation: a large‐scale review of aid worker perspectives

Linking pins as drivers of interagency cooperation: humanitarian NGOs and security networks

“Lost Generation” in South Sudan: A Broader Approach Toward Peace Urgently Needed

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