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The humanitarian-development nexus: humanitarian principles, practice, and
pragmatics
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Lie JHS
J Int Humanit Action
2020[]; 5
(1
): 18
PMID38624622
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The humanitarian-development nexus is increasingly being cast as the solution to
humanitarian concerns, new and protracted crises, and to manage complex
war-to-peace transitions. Despite widely endorsed amongst policymakers, this
nexus presents some challenges to those implementing it. Humanitarian action and
development assistance represent two distinct discursive and institutional
segments of the international system that are hard to juxtapose.
Humanitarianism's apolitical and imminent needs-based approaches building on
established humanitarian principles are fundamentally different from the more
long-term, political, rights-based approaches of development. As they rub
shoulders, as intentionally instigated by the nexus, they affect and challenge
each other. These challenges are more acute to the humanitarian domain given the
constitutive status of the humanitarian principles, which, when challenged, may
cause changes to the humanitarian space and a mission-cum-ethics creep. This
article explores the formation and effects of the humanitarian-development nexus
as rendered both at the top, amongst policymakers, and from the bottom. The
latter explores the discursive transition from conflict to reconstruction in
Northern Uganda. Humanitarian organisations' different response to the transition
demonstrate more pragmatic approaches to the humanitarian principles and thus how
the nexus itself is also formed bottom up and further exacerbates the mission
creep.
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