As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action
has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to
address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and
precepts. This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons
between emerging and traditional humanitarian actors. It sheds
light on why and how the emerging actors engage in humanitarian
crises and how their activities are carried out and perceived in
their transnational organizational environment. It develops and
applies a conceptual framework that fosters research on
humanitarian actors and the humanitarian principles. In particular,
it simultaneously refers to theories of organizational sociology
and international relations to identify both the structural and the
situational factors that influence the motivations, aims and
activities of these actors, and their different levels of
commitment to the traditional humanitarian principles. It thus
elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting
coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of
humanitarian action, and discusses whether alternative principles
and parallel humanitarian systems are in the making. This volume
will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in
humanitarian studies, globalization and transnationalism research,
organizational sociology, international relations, development
studies, and migration and diaspora studies, as well as policy
makers and practitioners engaged in humanitarian action,
development cooperation and migration issues.
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