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Quake and Shake: An International Disaster Law Exercise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2023

Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller
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More countries than ever require post-disaster international assistance in an era of accelerating climate change-driven events and intensifying risk from other threats. Accordingly, affected states must legally prepare to ensure that incoming aid is effective, appropriate, and accountable to its intended recipients. This session focused on how the Guidelines on the Domestic Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Assistance (IDRL Guidelines) can support governments in proactively addressing legal and other issues surrounding incoming disaster assistance.

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Quake and Shake: International Disaster Law Simulation Exercise
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 116 , 2022 , pp. 183 - 189
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This session was convened at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2022, by lead facilitator and exercise developer Kirsten Bookmiller of the Department of Government, Policy, and Law at Millersville University and Chair of the Disaster Law Interest Group. The session's co-facilitators were Amit Khardori, Attorney Advisor for the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, and Andrea Harrison, Chair of the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict.

References

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6 United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic: An Opportunity for a Systemic Approach to Disaster Risk for the Caribbean (Mar. 2021), available at https://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/46732/1/S2000944_en.pdf.

7 UNDRR, UC Louvain, Cred, and USAID, 2020: The Non-COVID Year in Disasters (2021), available at https://www.undrr.org/publication/2020-non-covid-year-disasters.

8 Confidential interview with U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency official (Oct. 2021).

9 Charles E. Fritz & J. H. Mathewson, Convergence Behavior in Disasters: A Problem in Social Control (1957), available at https://archive.org/stream/convergencebehav00fritrich/convergencebehav00fritrich_djvu.txt.

10 The IDRL Guidelines are available at: https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2020-09/1205600-IDRL-Guidelines-EN-LR.pdf.

11 The full Checklist is available at: https://disasterlaw.ifrc.org/sites/default/files/media/disaster_law/2020-09/IDRL-Checklist-EN-LR-1.pdf.