Citation

Pugh M. Disasters 2001; 25(4): 345-357.

Affiliation

Department of Politics, International Studies Centre, University of Plymouth. mpugh@plymouth.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11780859

Abstract

The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state-centric foundations of military intervention run counter to the potential for humanitarian organisations to foster a cosmopolitan ethos that would not only preserve humanitarian principles but also contest statist assumptions about conflict, development and power.

Language: en