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Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of HumanitarianismLarissa Fast *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2015

Michaël Neuman
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 96 , Issue 894: Sexual violence in armed conflict , June 2014 , pp. 641 - 648
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3 See, for instance, Fast, Larissa, “Characteristics, Context, and Risk: NGO Insecurity in Conflict Zones”, Disasters, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2007, pp. 130–154CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed; Jean S. Renouf, “Understanding How the Identity of International Aid Agencies and Their Approaches to Security Are Mutually Shaped”, PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2011; Elise Leclerc-Gagné, “The Construction of the Humanitarian Worker as Inviolate Actor”, PhD thesis, University of British Colombia, 2014.

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6 Aid in Danger, p. 12.

7 Ibid., p. 67.

8 Ibid., p. 81.

9 For a sample of a very rich literature making these arguments, see for instance Care International, A New Year's Resolution to Keep: Secure a Lasting Peace in Afghanistan, London, 13 January 2003; Bristol, Nellie, “Military Incursions into Aid Work Anger Humanitarian Groups”, Lancet, Vol. 267, No. 9508, 4 February 2006, pp. 384–386CrossRefGoogle Scholar; or the more recent Stella Dawson, “Aid Workers in Conflict Zones No Longer Immune, Now Targeted”, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 20 November 2014, available at: www.trust.org/item/20141120045856-v6h6d (all internet references were accessed in November 2014).

10 L. Fast, above note 6, p. 99.

11 Hammond, Laura, “The Power of Holding Hostage and the Myth of Protective Principles”, in Barnett, Michael and Weiss, Thomas G. (eds), Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008, pp. 172–195Google Scholar.

12 Aid in Danger, p. 103.

13 Ibid., p. 11.

14 Ibid., p. 20.

15 Ibid., p. 30.

16 Ibid., p. 129.

17 Ibid., p. 136.

18 Ibid., p. 145.

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24 See Michaël Neuman, “Is Medical Care Really Under Fire? A Debate on Humanitarian Security”, MSF UK Opinion and Debate, 19 November 2014, available at: www.msf.org.uk/article/opinion-and-debate-is-medical-care-really-under-fire-a-debate-on-humanitarian-security.

25 See Chaponnière, Corinne, Henry Dunant: La croix d'un homme, Perrin, Paris, 2010Google Scholar.

26 Aid in Danger, pp. 37–45.

27 Ibid., p. 193.

28 For a critical analysis of the event, see Eleanor Davey, “Memorialising Humanitarians”, History & Humanitarianism, 19 August 2014, available at: http://aidhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/memorialising-humanitarians/.