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Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Final Report

This report summarizes the findings of a major research project on the constraints, challenges, and compromises affecting humanitarian action in conflict and crisis settings. The building blocks are 12 case…

The U.S. Citizen-Soldier and the Global War on Terror

This study provides a composite view of reflections by U.S. veterans from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq on their experiences in the Global War on Terror. It draws on…

Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Principles, Power, and Perceptions

This report summarizes the findings of the first phase of a major research project on the challenges and compromises that are likely to affect humanitarian action in the next decade….

Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Colombia Country Study

The experience of Colombia sheds light on all four themes of the HA 2015 research. First, with respect to universality, Colombia sees itself as part and parcel of the western…

Mapping the Security Environment

The data presented and analyzed by the study in three cases-Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone-offers intriguing and provocative look at the wide-ranging security needs of local communities and the uneven…

One for All and All for One: Support and Assistance Models for an Effective IFRC

In recent years and for a variety of reasons, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has been buffeted by an array of forces. In one…

Ambiguity and Change

This study provides international NGOs with a rudimentary framework for strategic planning in the light of the likely challenges of ambiguity and change awaiting them during the next decade. It…

The Future of Humanitarian Action: Implications of Iraq and other recent crises

A report on an international mapping exercise to understand the implications of the Iraq war and other crises on humanitarian action.

The Quality of Money: Donor Behavior in Humanitarian Financing

Donor behavior represents a patchwork of policies and activities by individual governments, which taken together, do not provide a coherent or effective system for financing the international humanitarian enterprise. The…

Pastoralist Community Harmonization in the Karamoja Cluster: Taking it to the Next Level

an assessment of the impacts of the Pastoral Community Harmonization Initiative (PCHI) in its fourth year

FEINSTEIN RESEARCH PROJECTS

Humanitarian Agenda 2015

Over the past three years, Tufts/FIC has conducted 12 country case studies on local perceptions of the work of humanitarian agencies. The objective was to understand, from the perspective of those most affected by crisis and conflict, whether humanitarian action was seen as responding to a universal imperative or as an externally-driven approach linked to Northern and Western agendas.

Humanitarianism and War