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of Operation Lifeline Sudan: A Report to the Aid Agencies |
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| The first study conducted was a review of Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS), undertaken in early 1990 with the support of 11 humanitarian organizations. Reflecting more than 200 interviews carried out by a seven-person team in the northern and southern Sudan, Nairobi and Addis Ababa, and New York, Washington, Geneva, London, Brussels, Rome, and Ottawa, this report represents a distillation for discussion with aid agencies of a lengthier volume published commercially, Humanitarianism under Siege: A Critical Review of Operation Lifeline Sudan [listed among Project publications]. The enthusiasm of the sponsoring agencies for the Sudan research and their encouragement to carry out similar case studies of other conflicts so that more global findings and recommendations might be generated led to the birth of the Humanitarianism and War Project in 1991. | |
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The Report to the Aid Agencies identified 11 major institutional problems. These included the uneven observance of international law by the belligerents, the structural bias of OLS toward the Sudan government, other weaknesses in the multilateral humanitarian system, missed opportunities for local institution-building, inadequate linkages with human rights, development, and peace concerns, and uneven professionalism. The study directed recommendations to aid institutions, the belligerents, the UN system, donor governments, the OAU, NGOs, the media, and researchers. It was the subject of debriefings of UN officials in New York, Canadian officials in Ottawa, NGOs in Nairobi and Geneva, and the ICRC in Geneva. The full-length book was made available by UNICEF to participants in the international meeting of governments in late 1990 in New York that approved the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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humanitarian principles, humanitarian access, human rights, coordination, politicization, sovereignty, conflict resolution, peace, international law, universality, local institutions, civil society, reconstruction, development, relief-to-development continuum, the media, accountability, professionalism; the Sudan, Kenya, U.S.; UN, UNICEF, UNDP, UNDRO, WFP, FAO, UNHCR, USAID, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement
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watson institute - -Tufts University | Feinstein International Famine Center - |
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TITLE: A Critical Review of Operation Lifeline Sudan: A Report
to the Aid Agencies (Occasional Paper)