Complex Emergencies and the Crisis of Developmentalism

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Mark Duffield

چکیده

Using complex emergencies and the humanitarian response to them as its point of reference, this paper provides a critique of relief, development and the linking -debate. Rather than being autonomous, relief is a developmental idea. Development concepts have proven incapable of understanding permanent emergency. They also underestimates the extent of the North's institutional accommodation with unresolved political crisis in the South. Beginning with nonmandated NGO operations, there has been a growing acknowledgment of the inevitability of working in conflict situations. Moreover, accompanying the growth in emergency spending, the number of policy instruments available to donors has increased. Aid is now integrated with the dynamics of violence to an unprecedented extent. Greater donor flexibility in the face of systemic crisis has also contributed to a weakening of the principle of collective responsibility in the North. A new political consensus is required to tackle the problem of complex emergencies.

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