Reasons as to Why Providing Humanitarian Assistance in Regions of War Can Do More Harm Than Good

Reasons as to Why Providing Humanitarian Assistance in Regions of War Can Do More Harm Than Good

Introduction

Humanitarian aid - the kind of free aid (assistance), funds for life, free of charge distributed among the population of the areas covered by the humanitarian catastrophe, or standing on its edge. For the conditions of armed conflict International Court of Justice has defined the permissible humanitarian aid as "the provision of food, clothing, medicines and other humanitarian aid, but it does not include the provision of weapons, weapons systems, ammunition or other equipment, vehicles and materials that can be used to inflict serious injury or cause death. " Humanitarian aid is different from foreign aid to their urgent nature and that is used to alleviate the plight of victims of natural disasters. Humanitarian assistance is a form of solidarity or charity, usually for the poor, distressed or face a war that seeks to meet diverse needs (hunger, health, post-disaster reconstruction, education, child protection, implementation of water systems and communication). It is often categorized as such relief and development projects (Minear, 2002). Humanitarian assistance can take various forms (donating money, goods consignment and basic equipment, sending staff on site making interventions, strengthening of local actors) and come from various sources:

The associations (secular or religious or ideological) and NGO humanitarian (also known as charities). They are funded either on equity (membership dues, donations, various operations), either through grants municipalities, governments, international organizations or any organization that wishes to support the work of these NGOs or entrust certain tasks . NGOs often work with staff volunteer, but they can employ paid staff. In the case of international NGOs, whose missions take place abroad, the expatriates are almost all paid, they must implement a program funded by an international institution like the European Union or one of UN agencies, their salary shall be borne by those agencies. These humanitarian personnel whether expatriate or the country of intervention is increasingly being targeted, and each year, incidents are reported. This is partly explained by the so-called "reduction of humanitarian space”.

States and other jurisdictions.

Public International Organizations, especially those dependent on the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the European Union, etc.

Companies (Minear, 2002).

For the sociologist Alain Accardo, "the unprecedented humanitarian organizations must force it is the fact that the moral malaise of the middle class has increased considerably with the ebb of revolutionary hopes and abandonment of the political project of transformation of social relations“. The Declaration and Program of Action affirms that an "under the United Nations Charter and the principles of international humanitarian law, it stresses the importance and necessity of humanitarian assistance to victims of all disasters, natural or manmade. This paper would focus on the study of the humanitarian assistance in regions of war (Minear, 2002). The paper will identify whether the practicing of humanitarian assistance is beneficial or harmful.

Thesis Statement

Though, the humanitarian assistance is important ...