Neglected emergencies
forgotten but not gone
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Edition Summary:
Neglected emergencies: forgotten but not gone
When does an emergency slip into the realm of neglect? In this unfortunate decline, who is most affected? Can the humanitarian community really cope with all these emergencies, be they of human or natural origin, that seem to come at a fast and furious pace?
The humanitarian imperative demands that no-one be left neglected in an emergency, and it is incumbent on the humanitarian community, as well as on states, to do everything possible to rescue and restore every victim.
At least that’s the notion; the reality is quite different.
This edition of Global Future seeks to bring this very important issue back into the limelight.
It addresses the questions on when, why, how, and by whom emergencies are neglected. The reader may not find definitive solutions, but these questions will once more provoke thinking on the subject as it speaks to different audiences within the global community.
We hope that this edition presents a strong case for duty bearers and stakeholders alike to prevent emergencies from declining into the realms of the forgotten.
Contributors to this edition include:
Dr Ben Wisner, Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at Oberlin College, United States, and in Development Studies at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Ms Emina Tudakovic, Rapporteur of the Executive Committee Bureau, and First Secretary at the Canadian Permanent Mission in Geneva, and Mr Ron Pouwels, the Senior Adviser for Refugee Children, in the Community Development, Gender Equality and Children Section of the Division of International Protection Services at UNHCR
Mrs Sadako Ogata, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991 until 2001
Mr Ian Smillie, co-author with Larry Minear of The Charity of Nations:
Humanitarian action in a calculating world, and chairman of the Diamond
Development Initiative
Ms Michèle Lebrun, desk officer in the European Commission Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO)
Dr Susan Moeller, Director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda and Associate Professor of Media and International Affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism
World Vision staff contributors
PLUS "Voices of life from around the globe" - case studies from Chechnya, Somalia, the DRC and Haiti.
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