Paper details

Paper authors	Emily Scott
In panel on	In Defense of Humanity: Civilian Protection, Aid Work, and the Demise of IHL (Roundtable)
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Relationships between risk and humanitarian action are crucial to IR scholarship on the international humanitarian order (IHO). Today’s changing geopolitical dynamics include global powers turning to protectionism, cuts to foreign assistance, the collapse of IHL and the Laws of War, and dramatic sacrifices of civilian life, as well as an inability to shield the global public from the realities of today’s modern wars. The ways humanitarian risk attitude and behaviour—by IOs and by states—change in response will have implications for the political responsibility and accountability of the humanitarian order. These will also impact how its policies are legitimized or discredited by and for humanitarian communities of practice, and increasingly informed publics holding humanitarian actors to account.

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