TY - JOUR
T1 - The 2016 world humanitarian summit report card
T2 - Both failing marks and substantive gains for an increasingly globalized humanitarian landscape
AU - Canyon, Deon V.
AU - Burkle, Frederick M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit were mixed with some refreshing new directions being endorsed and a lack of systemic reform. The selective agenda and OCHAs lack of success in engaging pre-meeting political participation not only hampered the Summit’s ability to deal with global issues and institutional reform, but also alienated it from leading aid agencies and governments. The UN’s failure to commit to humanitarian principles and global disarray of the humanitarian system indicates the need for extensive reform or a new global humanitarian body. This agency needs to employ a decentralized model to manage aid funds, assume coordination of international responses, resolve civil-military coordination, cater for people affected by both conflict and disasters, and professionalize the humanitarian career.
AB - Outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit were mixed with some refreshing new directions being endorsed and a lack of systemic reform. The selective agenda and OCHAs lack of success in engaging pre-meeting political participation not only hampered the Summit’s ability to deal with global issues and institutional reform, but also alienated it from leading aid agencies and governments. The UN’s failure to commit to humanitarian principles and global disarray of the humanitarian system indicates the need for extensive reform or a new global humanitarian body. This agency needs to employ a decentralized model to manage aid funds, assume coordination of international responses, resolve civil-military coordination, cater for people affected by both conflict and disasters, and professionalize the humanitarian career.
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U2 - 10.1371/currents.dis.a94dd3e2f84d0a5abc179add7286851c
DO - 10.1371/currents.dis.a94dd3e2f84d0a5abc179add7286851c
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010826011
SN - 2157-3999
VL - 8
JO - PLoS Currents
JF - PLoS Currents
IS - Disasters
ER -