Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book represents more than a decade of research and practice. Although my name appears on the front cover, I owe a debt of gratitude to many individuals who have encouraged me and contributed to my thinking about the dilemmas of providing aid in danger, especially those named and unnamed individuals who trusted me with their stories. I thank all of those who gave of their time and shared their insights with me as I conducted research for this book. In accordance with their wishes, I have not listed those individuals who agreed to speak with me but asked to remain anonymous. The people who participated in formal interviews and who agreed to share their names and affiliations include the following: Mary Anderson (executive director, Collaborative for Development Action, Inc. [CDA]); Shawn Bardwell (safety and security coordinator, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]); John Berry (consultant); Susan Brock (consultant); Patrick Brugger (delegate in charge of the Security Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC]); Warren Buttery (global security advisor, Mercy Corps); Penelope Curling (stress counselor, United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF]); Mark Cutts (chief, Field Response Section , Internal Displacement Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance [OCHA]); James Darcy (director of humanitarian programmes, Overseas Development Institute [ODI]); Pascal Daudin (director of global safety and security, CARE International); Paul Davies (independent aid and security consultant); Antonio Donini (senior researcher , Feinstein International Center, Tufts University); Daniel Endres (acting deputy director, Division of Operational Services, Emergency Technical Support Service, UN High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR]); Paul Farrell (deputy security coordinator and Operations Centre manager, Office of Emergency Programs, UNICEF); Bill Gent (security coordinator, UNICEF); Paul Harvey (research fellow, ODI); Lucy Hodgson (security training coordinator, Registry for Engineers in Disaster Relief–IHE); Sulay- 324 Acknowledgments man Khuri (senior field safety advisor, Field Safety Section, Emergency and Security Service, UNHCR); Dennis King (analyst, Humanitarian Information Unit, U.S. Department of State); Eric LeGuen (global safety and security advisor, International Rescue Committee); Gil Loescher (senior research fellow, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University); Randy Martin (director of global emergency operations, Mercy Corps); Larry Minear (director , Humanitarianism and War Project, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University); Sorcha O’Callaghan (research officer, ODI); Michael O’Neill (director, Global Safety and Security, Save the Children–US); Robert Painter (humanitarian security advisor, UN Department of Safety and Security [UNDSS]); Laky Pissalidis (senior security advisor, International Services , American Red Cross); Karina Purushotma (Feinstein International Center, Tufts University); Elisabeth Rasmusson (resident representative, Geneva , Norwegian Refugee Council [NRC]); Jean Renouf (coordinator, EuropeanInterAgencySecurityForum [EISF]);JohnSchafer(securitycoordinator, InterAction); Hugo Slim (chief scholar, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue); David Snider (liaison officer, Emergency and Security Service, UNHCR); Ravi Solanki (senior field safety advisor, Field Safety Section, Emergency and Security Service, UNHCR); Nick Stockton (director, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International); Lars Tangen (manager, Security Unit, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [IFRC]); Peter Walker (director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University ); Thomas Weiss (presidential professor of political science and director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York); Victoria Wheeler (research fellow, ODI); and Aimee Wielechowski (field response officer, Internal Displacement Division, OCHA). Individuals’ affiliations are listed as of the time of the interview. The names of interviewees and details on the focus group participants in the field research in the occupied Palestinian territory appear in Fast (2006) and in Fast, Patterson, et al. (2011) for the research in South Sudan. The Institutional Review Board at the University of Notre Dame approved all research conducted for this book. In addition, I offer thanks to the following people: Oliver Behn, Amaury Cooper, the late John Darby (and Marie Darby), Jan Davis, John Dyer, Chris Finucane, Heather Hughes, Trevor Hughes, Madeleine Kingston, Melissa Labonte, Melker Mabeck, Julie MacFarlane, Maarten Merkelbach, Marc Michaelson , Will Moore, Norah Niland, Michelle Parlevliet, Reg Patterson, Acknowledgments 325 Christine Persaud, Elizabeth Rowley, Norm Sheehan, Sam Sherman, Jackie Smith, and Christina Wille. In particular, I have been privileged to learn from multiple and extended conversations over the past decade with a series of colleagues turned friends. The insights of Shawn Bardwell, Pascal Daudin, John Schafer, and especially Michael O’Neill have significantly influenced the ideas I present here, and their generosity of time and ideas has proven invaluable. Likewise, Mary Anderson and Antonio Donini have profoundly shaped my thinking about the dilemmas of aid and humanitarianism and as a result about...