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Humanitarian
Action in the Former Yugoslavia: The U.N.'s Role, 1991-1993 |
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TITLE: Humanitarian Action in the Former Yugoslavia: The U.N.'s Role,
1991-1993 (Occasional Paper 18)
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ABSTRACT |
| Carried out by a six-person team, this study was based on more than 300 interviews conducted during 1993 throughout the former Yugoslavia, at UN agency headquarters, and in western capitals. The researchers identify ten policy challenges for humanitarian actors, including defining the humanitarian task, coming to terms with ethnic cleansing, dealing with belligerents who defy international humanitarian law, determining the appropriate uses of the military, protecting the integrity of humanitarian action, orchestrating the common effort, and assisting civilians without prolonging the war. | |
| The report credits individual UN officials with "impressive energy, dedication, and commitment, frequently in situations of great personal peril." However, it faults UN humanitarian organizations for lacking a concerted strategy for dealing effectively with warring parties that repeatedly violated humanitarian principles and the rights of civilians. It also situates humanitarian activities within a context of "half-measures and abandonment of principles on the part of U.N. member governments and the Security Council." | |
| The study, published jointly with the Refugee Policy Group in early 1994, contains graphs, charts, maps, and a chronology of major events. Organized according to the immediate, medium-term, and long-term, its recommendations include one that was particularly contested by UN humanitarian officials: that consideration be given to creating "a new institutional capacity within the U.N. to provide assistance and protection when economic sanctions or military enforcement are carried out under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter." (133) | |
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The Yugoslavia study was the subject of debriefings with officials from member governments of the UN Security Council in New York and with NGOs in various locations. Several commentaries on the study are found in Section 8, Selected Reviews of Project Publications.
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Humanitarian principles, human rights, institutional cultures, ethnic cleansing, security, enforcement, warfare, peacekeeping, international military forces, sovereignty, economic sanctions, coordination, reconstruction, relief-to-development continuum, consolidated appeals, funding, local institutions, civil society, regional organizations, professionalism, accountability; U.N., UN Security Council, DPA, DPKO, DHA, UNDP, IASC, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNESCO, WFP, WHO, IOM, NATO, EU, ECHO, WEU, USAID, UNPROFOR, CSCE, NGOs, the Red Cross movement; Former Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, U.S., U.K.
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