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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Aid & relief programmes
From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential
Election describes voting in the 2020 election, from the
presidential nomination to new voting laws post-election. Election
officials and voters navigated the challenging pandemic to hold the
highest turnout election since 1900. President Donald Trump's
refusal to acknowledge the pandemic's severity coupled with
frequent vote fraud accusations affected how states provided safe
voting, how voters cast ballots, how lawyers fought legal battles,
and ultimately led to an unsuccessful insurrection.
From Pandemic to Insurrection: Voting in the 2020 US Presidential
Election describes voting in the 2020 election, from the
presidential nomination to new voting laws post-election. Election
officials and voters navigated the challenging pandemic to hold the
highest turnout election since 1900. President Donald Trump's
refusal to acknowledge the pandemic's severity coupled with
frequent vote fraud accusations affected how states provided safe
voting, how voters cast ballots, how lawyers fought legal battles,
and ultimately led to an unsuccessful insurrection.
This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of
the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide from 1945 to 1980. Readers
interested in international relations and humanitarian hunger
prevention are provided with fascinating insights into the economic
and business related aspects of Western non-governmental politics,
fundraising and philanthropic giving in this field. Not only does
the book contributes to ongoing research about the rise of NGOs in
the international realm, it also offers very rich empirical
material on the political implications of private and governmental
international aid in a world marked by the order of the Cold War,
decolonialization processes and the struggle of so called "Third
World Countries" to catch up with modern Western consumer
societies. This book is relevant to both United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals 1, No poverty and 2, Zero hunger -- .
'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to
system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in
helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when
governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane
Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilised relief in
their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book
about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. As
climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks,
grassroots direct action, occupations and brigades have sprung up
in response to this crisis with considerable success. Occupy Sandy
was widely acknowledged to have organised relief more effectively
than federal agencies or NGOs, and following Covid-19 the term
'mutual aid' entered common parlance. However, anarchist-inspired
relief has not gone unnoticed by government agencies. Their
responses include surveillance, co-option, extending at times to
violent repression involving police brutality. Arguing that
disaster anarchy is one of the most important political phenomena
to emerge in the twenty-first century, Rhiannon Firth shows through
her research on and within these movements that anarchist theory
and practice is needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of
our unequal and destructive economic system.
From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva
Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and
furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War,
this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International
Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the
Nazis during the Second World War. The Geneva-based International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest,
most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of
World War II things could not have looked more different. Under
fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to
extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across
Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in
order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole
future of Switzerland's humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the
balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and
battling Communist critics in the early Cold War, the Red Cross
leadership in Geneva emerged from the world war with a new
commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of
conflict. But they did so while defending former Nazis at the
Nuremberg Trials and issuing travel papers to many of Hitler's
former henchmen. These actions did little to silence the ICRC's
critics, who unfavourably compared the 'shabby' neutrality of the
Swiss with the 'good' neutrality of the Swedes, their eager rivals
for leadership in international humanitarian initiatives. In spite
of all this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged
triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the
new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian
affairs against the challenge of the Swedes, and playing a
formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva
Conventions of 1949. This uncompromising new history tells the
remarkable and intriguing story of how the ICRC achieved this -
successfully escaping the shadow of its ambiguous wartime record to
forge a new role and a new identity in the post-1945 world.
Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution
achievable in practice? These 8 essays mirror and expand the
complexity of contemporary discussions on cosmopolitanism and
global justice, focusing on a normative study of the global
institutional order with suggestions of direct ways to reform it.
They assess schemes of worldwide distributive justice and the
mechanisms required to discharge the global duties that the
theories establish. Assesses the workability of philosophical
conceptions of justice for the global sphere Addresses fields
including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health
care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the United
Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund and the global
responsibility of the European Union For political philosophers,
political scientists and sociologists working on the philosophy of
international relations, global ethics, global justice,
humanitarian aid and development politics
The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient
delivery of humanitarian assistance. According to international
practice, humanitarian aid should be channelled through a state
government that bears a particular responsibility for its
population. Yet in Syria, the bulk of relief went through Damascus
while the regime caused the vast majority of civilian deaths.
Should the UN have severed its cooperation with the government and
neglected its humanitarian duty to help all people in need?
Decision-makers face these tough policy dilemmas, and often the
"neutrality trap" snaps shut. This book discusses the political and
moral considerations of how to respond to a brutal and complex
crisis while adhering to international law and practice. The
author, a scholar and senior diplomat involved in the UN peace
talks in Geneva, draws from first-hand diplomatic, practitioner and
UN sources. He sheds light on the UN's credibility crisis and the
wider implications for the development of international
humanitarian and human rights law. This includes covering the key
questions asked by Western diplomats, NGOs and international
organizations, such as: Why did the UN not confront the Syrian
government more boldly? Was it not only legally correct but also
morally justifiable to deliver humanitarian aid to regime areas
where rockets were launched and warplanes started? Why was it so
difficult to render cross-border aid possible where it was badly
needed? The meticulous account of current international practice is
both insightful and disturbing. It tackles the painful lessons
learnt and provides recommendations for future challenges where
politics fails and humanitarians fill the moral void.
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When disaster strikes, it rarely impacts just one jurisdiction.
Many catastrophic disaster plans include support from neighboring
jurisdictions that likely will not be available in a regional
disaster. Bringing multiple stakeholders together from sectors that
do not routinely work with each other can augment a response to a
disaster, but can also be extremely difficult because of the
multi-disciplinary communication and coordination needed to ensure
effective medical and public health response. As many communities
within a region will have similar vulnerabilities, a logical step
in planning is to establish responsibilities and capacities, and be
able to work toward common goals to address all-hazards when the
entire region is affected. To explore these considerations, the
Institute of Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health
Preparedness for Catastrophic Events organized a series of three
regional workshops in 2014 to explore opportunities to strengthen
the regional coordination required in response to a large scale
multijurisdictional disaster. The purpose of each regional workshop
was to discuss ways to strengthen coordination among multiple
jurisdictions in various regions to ensure fair and equitable
treatment of communities from all impacted areas. Regional Disaster
Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes summarizes the
presentation and discussion of these workshops. Table of Contents
Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Evacuation, Patient Tracking, and
Information Sharing in a Regional Response 3 Public Health Surge
Capacity and Community Resilience 4 Coordination of a Community
Response 5 Final Remarks A-- References B-- Acronyms C-- Statement
of Task D--Agendas E-- Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers
and Panelists F-- Speakers and Registered Attendees
A review of the theoretical debates around aid, providing a
valuable resource for practitioners and students. Foreign aid has
always been a controversial subject. Roger Riddell provides a
rigorous analysis of the criticisms which are made against aid from
all parts of the political and ideological spectrum, and examines
in depth the moraland theoretical questions that are raised in the
debate.
The book identifies the main international concepts and rules that
are of special relevance in disaster settings and critically
analyses how they are implemented in such contexts. It shows that,
although the crucial and growing importance of disaster response
has resulted in a complex framework of international obligations,
it is nonetheless guided by certain general principles/values. In
particular, through an in-depth analysis of sovereignty,
international cooperation and solidarity, and their manifestations
in disaster contexts, the book assesses the concrete scope and
nature of the obligations of the state affected by the disaster,
and those of the international community, respectively.
Considerable attention is devoted to the applicable legal framework
governing disaster response in mixed situations of disaster and
armed conflict, and to the main problems and operational challenges
entailed by the involvement of foreign military personnel and
assets in disaster response. The book's overall objective is to
provide an authoritative overview of the development, core issues
and challenges in international law with regard to disaster
scenarios, and to serve as a valuable and comprehensive reference
guide.
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Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well
documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous
Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid -
mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. - that
Ireland donated to continental Europe, including France, the
Netherlands, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, and zones of occupied
Germany. Starting with Ireland's neutral wartime record, often
wrongly presented as pro-German when Ireland in fact unofficially
favoured the western Allies, Jerome aan de Wiel explains why Eamon
de Valera's government sent humanitarian aid to the devastated
continent. His book analyses the logistics of collection and
distribution of supplies sent abroad as far as the Greek islands.
Despite some alleged Cold-War hijacking of Irish relief - and this
humanitarianism was not above the politics of that East-West
confrontation - it became mostly a story of hope, generosity and
European Christian solidarity. Rich archival records from Ireland
and the European beneficiary countries, as well as contemporary
local and national newspapers across Europe, allow the author to
measure and describe not only the official but also the popular
response to Irish relief schemes. This work is illustrated with
contemporary photographs and some key graphs and tables that show
the extent of the aid programme.
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