Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus

• Other Authors: Hanatani, Atsushi (Editor), Gómez, Oscar A. (Editor), Kawaguchi, Chigumi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies
• Subjects: Social impact of disasters; Development studies; Bilateral agencies; Chigumi Kawaguchi; Conflict prevention; crisis management; crisis prevention; disaster management; Hiroshi Higashiura; Honduras; Hurricane Mitch; humanitarian; humantiarian development nexus; Indonesian Tsunami; Japan International Corporation Agency Research Institute; JICA-RI; Mikio Ishiwatari; NGOs; Oscar A. Gmez; Peacebuilding; Ryoji Tateyama; risk management; South Sudan; Syrian Civil War; Timor-Leste; Tomoaki Honda; Toshiya Hoshino; Typhoon Yolanda; Yasuhito Jibiki; Yuichi Ono; Yukako Sakabe Tanaka; Yukie Osa
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In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However, this continuum from short-term relief to rehabilitation and development has often proved difficult to achieve. This book aims to shed light on the continuum of humanitarian crisis management, particularly from the viewpoint of major bilateral donors and agencies. Focusing on cases of armed conflicts and disasters, the authors describe the evolution of approaches and lessons learnt in practice when moving from emergency relief to recovery and prevention of future crises. Drawing on an extensive research project conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute, this book compares how a range of international organizations, bilateral cooperation agencies, NGOs, and research institutes have approached the continuum in international humanitarian crisis management. The book draws on six humanitarian crises case studies, each resulting from armed conflict or natural disasters: Timor-Leste, South Sudan, the Syrian crisis, Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, and Typhoon Yolanda. The book concludes by proposing a common conceptual framework designed to appeal to different stakeholders involved in crisis management. Following on from the World Humanitarian Summit, where a new way of working on the humanitarian-development nexus was highlighted as one of five major priority trends, this book is a timely contribution to the debate which should interest researchers of humanitarian studies, conflict and peace studies, and disaster risk-management.