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, track, quantify and monitor the physical bodies of populations affected by disaster and conflict, although these populations have little say or control over them ( Lupton, 2015 ). Humanitarian technology has become a field of considerable scholarly interest, and this raises many issues with respect to the ‘do no harm’ aspect of humanitarian aid ( Sandvik et al. , 2017 ), what it means to be neutral ( Sandvik et al. , 2014 ), the proper role and relevance
5 Aiding and abetting: priests involved in the IRA campaign As Volunteers on the run began to form flying columns from the spring of 1920 onwards and as the British government started to deploy Black and Tans and Auxiliaries to aid the hard-pressed RIC, violence escalated in certain parts of the country. For priests in areas where local Volunteers remained impervious to this process of radicalisation, things remained much the same. In these areas, the connections between the clergy and the republican movement described in Chapter 4 continued as before. But in
more significant aspect of this incident was the condemnation of the tweet and its sender, and her explanation that the photo was ‘six years old’. While public criticism focused on the power gap between humanitarians and refugees, this incident is noteworthy because it marks the appearance of a new phenomenon in international aid and global governance: children’s digital bodies
5 Charity and mutual aid: the pillars of English associations In late 1867 and early 1868 Maria Ray, a London-born tailoress thirtythree years of age, was a frequent visitor at the office of the Toronto St George’s Society. As the Society’s records reveal, Maria’s husband, George, had left her a couple of years earlier, and her two children, a fiveyear-old girl and a boy aged two, were both sick. Maria was struggling to make ends meet. The Toronto St George’s Society provided some temporary respite for her in the form of small cash payments. In several months
Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. In 2019, Trump and Kim met again in Hanoi, and with ROK President Moon Jae-in at the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), but these summits and meetings have not resulted in significant, concrete changes to the situation on the Korean peninsula. Moon met with Kim three times in 2018, resulting in increased inter-Korean cooperation including in the areas of sport, management of the DMZ, and transport. In 2019, Seoul channelled US$10 million in funding for humanitarian aid through UN bodies, including US$5.5 million to the World Food
Introduction Every year, dozens of national and international aid workers are kidnapped. Like governments and companies, most humanitarian organisations handle these events with the utmost secrecy. While Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), for example, publicly confirmed the abduction and release of staff members kidnapped in Kenya in 2011 and Syria in 2014, 1 the organisation made no effort to mobilise public opinion as a way to gain their
4 The aid war and reassessment Throughout the course of 1955, while the OCB were formulating the 1290-d measures to attack the ‘communist apparatus’ in developing areas and thereby address the threat of political subversion, Eisenhower and his advisers grew increasingly concerned with a recent and pronounced shift in Moscow’s foreign economic policy. In a marked departure from the policies of the Stalin era, the USSR had opened trade and aid relationships with the nations of the developing world. By the end of that year, Washington had declared these new Soviet
Introduction The Great War was a landmark moment in the development of humanitarianism. The unprecedented scale of destruction and mass violence unleashed by industrial warfare affected combatants and civilians alike and called for humanitarian aid on an equally unprecedented scale, often set into motion by national and transnational networks of solidarity. Numerous public and private initiatives sought to relieve the suffering of wounded soldiers and civilians during the conflict. 1 Neutral
Many expressed their intention of caring for sick and wounded British troops. One society lady, on being fitted for her Red Cross uniform, insisted she be made to ‘look effective on a battlefield’. 2 Apocryphal or not, such stories of vanity and meddlesome social influence abounded. Hobhouse, therefore, was not alone in her effort to transfer voluntary aid from Britain to South
. It has been argued that the conflict may actually have been an unintended consequence of external development aid and that perhaps ‘allocation and withdrawal of emergency aid has become the currency that regulates mobility, conflict and peace’ (Giuffrida 2005b : 541). Many Tuareg fled to nearby countries such as Algeria and Burkina Faso. Those in the