Paper authors | Dennis J. King dennis.j.king@odni.gov |
In panel on | Bridging the Gap: Academia, Policy-Making, and Humanitarian Response in Complex Emergencies |
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting | In-Person & Online |
Massive increases in transcontinental migration, intensifying climate change disasters, the global COVID-19 pandemic, more protracted regional conflicts, and escalating criminal violence are forcing the international donor community to rethink how it deals with these more complex humanitarian challenges. The need to find new ways to analyze, adapt to, and respond to these evolving crises is forcing a concomitant paradigm shift in the international humanitarian aid structure. To support these humanitarian efforts, the international humanitarian community will need to explore innovative ways of analyzing the threats, actors, and challenges that have emerged to better understand the implications of this far more complex humanitarian paradigm. The international humanitarian communities need to adapt to the new threats, new actors, and changes to the humanitarian system and culture that characterize this latest paradigm shift. The current system tends to respond to natural disasters and conflicts as country or regional problems rather than as complex, interconnected transnational or global challenges. The new actors on the humanitarian stage do not follow the same rules or the established humanitarian principles, norms, or best practices. This complicates coordination, action, and the ability to anticipate the next game-changing event or situation that could yet again shift the humanitarian paradigm.
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