Date: 2024
Type: Thesis
The shrinking space : an examination of trends in humanitarian access negotiations
Florence : European University Institute, 2024, EUI, STG, Master Thesis, 2024
VOGELSANG, Victor Pieter Andries, The shrinking space : an examination of trends in humanitarian access negotiations, Florence : European University Institute, 2024, EUI, STG, Master Thesis, 2024 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77163
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While conflicts continue, it has become increasingly difficult for humanitarians to create and defend the space in which to operate. Lacking alternatives to hard power, humanitarians must create the space via other tools, such as negotiations. This paper has analyzed how the ICRC and MSF approach these negotiations to better understand what approaches are successful and what challenges they face. Their vastly different interpretation of humanitarian principles has revealed differences in general approach, with ICRC operating with neutrality and secrecy and MSF using advocacy to gain access. While, for the most part, both organizations continue to gain access to conflict zones successfully, they face challenges in the areas primarily related to their organizational developments over the past decades. By overcoming some of these challenges, the humanitarian field will be better equipped to negotiate. Still, it's important to underline that space should not be up for negotiation, given its well-defined status within international law.
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Award date: 14 June 2024; Supervisor: Prof. Alain Lempereur, European University Institute
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77163
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/5569587
Series/Number: EUI; STG; Master Thesis; 2024
Publisher: European University Institute
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