Mitigating humanitarian crises during non-international armed conflicts—the role of human rights and ceasefire agreementsJournal of International Humanitarian Action - Tập 1 - Trang 1-19 - 2016
Lottie Lane
Situations of humanitarian crisis are often caused by armed conflicts. Given the prevalence of non-international armed conflicts today, ways of ameliorating these situations are at the forefront of concerns. The international humanitarian law rules governing non-international armed conflict remain much less developed than those for international armed conflicts. This makes governing the behaviour ...... hiện toàn bộ
A review of the impact of shelter design on the health of displaced populationsJournal of International Humanitarian Action - Tập 7 - Trang 1-20 - 2022
Anna Conzatti, Tristan Kershaw, Alexander Copping, David Coley
There are currently millions of displaced people encamped in low-quality shelters that jeopardise the health of these displaced populations. These shelters, which exhibit poor thermal regulation and air quality, are often inhabited by households for several years. Recently, the internal environment of shelters has been recognised as a determinant of the health of the occupants and the indoor air q...... hiện toàn bộ
Defining, measuring and interpreting the appropriateness of humanitarian assistanceJournal of International Humanitarian Action - Tập 4 - Trang 1-13 - 2019
Nada Abdelmagid, Francesco Checchi, Sylvia Garry, Abdihamid Warsame
This paper presents findings from a literature review of methods that explicitly assess the appropriateness of a humanitarian response. We set out to highlight the key features and limitations of each method and introduce a definition and conceptual framework for the measurement and interpretation of the appropriateness of humanitarian responses. This review is part of a broader project to enhance...... hiện toàn bộ
Treating implicit trauma: a quasi-experimental study comparing the EMDR Therapy Standard Protocol with a ‘Blind 2 Therapist’ version within a trauma capacity building project in Northern IraqJournal of International Humanitarian Action - Tập 5 - Trang 1-13 - 2020
Derek Farrell, Matthew D. Kiernan, Ad de Jongh, Paul William Miller, Peter Bumke, Salah Ahmad, Lorraine Knibbs, Cordula Mattheß, Paul Keenan, Helga Mattheß
Psychological trauma is a silent epidemic which presents as a global public health issue, often in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy is an empirically supported treatment intervention for PTSD and has been used as part of trauma-capacity building, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). For some survivor...... hiện toàn bộ
Media influence on humanitarian interventions: analysis of the Rohingya refugee crisis and international media coverageJournal of International Humanitarian Action - - 2021
Michelle J. Lee
In 2017, the long-festering discriminatory treatment to the Rohingyas in Myanmar, both in law and practice, resulted in the largest cross-border humanitarian crisis in Asia. During the 2016‑2017 Rohingya refugee crisis, the aerial shots of burnt villages and images of people trudging toward the horizon in search of refuge in neighboring nations dominated the Western media. However, for humanitaria...... hiện toàn bộ
Educational inequality in the Kebribeyah Somali refugee camp in Ethiopia: an autoethnographyJournal of International Humanitarian Action - Tập 7 Số 1 - 2022
Ahmed A. Muhumed, Saleh Ahmed
AbstractDue to the Somali Civil War of 1991, more than 10,000 Somali refugees resettled in Kebribeyah, a town in the Somali region of Ethiopia. For nearly three decades, the local and resettled refugee communities shared the resources the region had to offer, adopted a new common cultural norm, and fostered some levels of social cohesions. It is the education secto...... hiện toàn bộ