The last few weeks have been brimming with articles relating to conflict and health. I had planned on writing about many of them individually. However, in a rare moment of realism I concluded to do so in a reasonable timeframe was impossible. So, here they are in batch form. I especially recommend my Current Intelligence colleague Charli Carpenter’s article on human security.
Relief Agencies Urge Pakistan Army To Agree New Aid Rules
Aid agencies in Pakistan have drawn up guidelines for their relationship with the military to protect their neutrality and enable them to reach civilians caught up in the army’s operations against the Taliban.
Humanitarian Space Easing In Afghanistan?
Humanitarian agencies are seeing promising signs of regaining space and acceptance from Taliban insurgents while attacks against NGO workers have reduced significantly over the past six months. Up to 1,200 security incidents were recorded in June – more than in any month since the fall of the Taliban – but attacks on NGOs by armed opposition groups in the first half of 2010 were 35 percent lower than in 2008-2009, according to the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO). ANSO, which provides free safety analysis and advice to member NGOs, said attacks on NGOs had diminished due to their own enhanced security measures, and also because the insurgents appear to have stopped targeting NGOs.
How to Think Like a Human Security Analyst
I’ve been realizing that though I often say I look at global issues through a “human security perspective” it’s unclear to many people what that actually means. As Roland Paris pointed out years ago, the term means different things to different people; in fact my own empirical research on what the concept means to global elites suggests as much. (The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a set of tools for doing human security analysis that are primarily development-oriented, for example, whereas many UN member governments continue to associate the concept with the responsibility to protect as well.) This ongoing debate about the term’s meaning may explain why people are sometimes bewildered when I make arguments “from a human security perspective” that don’t jibe with their conception of what human security practitioners are supposed to believe in.
Red Cross Hospital Treats Taliban and Children
Some 200 people work here, including 180 Pakistanis. Two surgical teams operate and carry out amputations every day in one of the tents, battling to save people’s lives. The building next door, which has two brand new operating theaters, is almost finished. But there are just too many victims. Usually up to 12 new patients are admitted per day, but after military operations or attacks by insurgents sometimes 40 seriously injured people arrive at one time.
How I Almost Crashed Our Helicopter In Haiti
I got (ahem) a little nervous. So I frantically tried to get the big box out of the chopper. Unfortunately the box got wedged on the steering column which controls the entire helicopter. I was pretty nervous about the guys running towards us, so I did get the box out, but almost rolled the chopper in the process. Ryan fortunately was able to keep control of it. He said later on a scale of 1-10 where 10 is extremely dangerous that my little maneuver with the box rated a “9″.
Christopher R. Albon is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy.
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