CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Kalashyan, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | Humanitarianism on Trial in Sudan: Implications of the Incommensurability of the "New" Humanitarian and the Original Human Security Paradigms |
| Summary | The expulsion of 13 international humanitarian organizations at the beginning of March from the country that hosts the largest humanitarian mission in the world has raised essential questions reflecting the nature of humanitarian missions today. Largely through the case of the humanitarian crises in Sudan, the thesis draws attention to the effects of the multiple transformations within both human security and humanitarian paradigms on the humanitarian organizations' ability to effectively respond to emergency needs and alleviate human suffering. While evaluating the changing relationship between humanitarian action and politics, this research paper explicitly argues that the “new” humanitarianism and its tendency to focus on root causes of conflict-induced crisis continually jeopardizes the tension between need-based life-saving activities and longer-term objectives of achieving human development and state-building. At the same time, the thesis traces numerous attempts to institutionalize human security concerns in state foreign and defense policies with the primary goal of revealing the shift back towards state-centric approach within the human security paradigm and its ontological incommensurability with the original human security doctrine. After outlining some of the dangers of the convergence agenda of the "new" humanitarianism, as well as the human security, the thesis concludes with a plea for a revival of the individual-focused security approach. |
| Supervisor | Paul Roe |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/kalashyan_anna.pdf |
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