Networks of liaisons, across humanitarian and UN agencies, such as the Interagency Standing Committee have been particularly influential in generating policies that impact military-humanitarian relationships.
This paper responds to questions posed by archaeologists and engineers in the humanitarian sector about relationships between shelter, disasters and resilience.
Recently when Nicolas Sarkozy hinted toward a possible Olympic boycott if China did not become humanitarian in their relationship with Tibet, George Bush said we should keep politics out of the Games -- this from a third generation Reaganomic, a president that supported the boycot the 1980 Olympics due to our political relationship with Russia.
To move forward, we must expand the HGP's ELSI (ethical, legal and social implications) programme to include HELPCESS (humanitarian, ethical, legal, public relationships, cultural, economic, safety/security and social implications).
Though different communities vary significantly in their membership, degree of organization and formal relationships with humanitarian coordinating bodies, their integration into a field marked by seasoned professional field staff and conservative information management is consistently marked by cultural and institutional tensions (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 2011).
Some workers instead develop relationships with humanitarians from other organisations.
11 A.M. (TV One) WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN Mr. Martin interviews the singer, actor and humanitarian Harry Belafonte about his relationship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his experiences during the civil rights movement, rap culture and racism in Hollywood.
MSF is not naive and is fully aware of the cosy relationship between humanitarian organisations and donor governments, with many mid-level staff from the non-governmental sector (including a number of former MSF staff) eventually moving on to positions in the Department for International Development in the UK or the European Community Humanitarian Office Echoo).
It can also apply to the relationship between humanitarian agencies and armed non-state actors.
In a comment on the relationship between humanitarian ethics and effectiveness, Slim (2013) suggests that "effectiveness is essentially value-neutral.
The relationship between humanitarian INGOs and states is particularly problematic when negotiated against the politically sensitive background of civil conflict, although "impatience with bureaucratic constraints reflects a naivete about highly political contexts in which NGOs increasingly operate" (Weiss, 1996: 459).
