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Embracing small spaces
Foster, Roger W Docherty, Jayne Seminare
Foster, Roger W
Docherty, Jayne Seminare
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In the field of humanitarian assistance, there has been much talk of the allegedly calamitous “shrinking” of humanitarian space. After examining the literature on this problem, Cynthia Brassard- Boudreau and Don Hubert concluded that for many organizations in the humanitarian aid field, “the notion of humanitarian space embodies a series of assumptions that together imply an inexorable decline in the ability to provide material assistance to populations affected by armed conflict… [B]y conflating a range of largely disconnected phenomena under this single heading, humanitarian organizations have generated an unnecessarily gloomy outlook on the prospects for effective humanitarian operations. This conflation is a barrier to analyzing and responding to the very real challenges of security and access facing humanitarian organizations”.
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2013-01
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