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Action and Politics: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh |
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Humanitarian Action
and Politics: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh (Occasional
Paper 25)
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ABSTRACT |
| This study reviews the intersections between politics and humanitarian action in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during the years 1988-1996. More specifically, it analyzes the intrusion of political agendas into humanitarian responses to the conflict and assesses the damages, humanitarian and diplomatic alike, of the resulting politicization of activities. The damages included inadequate efforts to meet the needs of some 600,000 persons displaced in Azerbaijan and the failure of the UN to conduct a needs assessment in Nagorno-Karabakh itself. Politicized humanitarian action, in turn, impeded diplomatic efforts designed to make the 1994 cease-fire permanent, mount an international peacekeeping operation, and establish a durable peace. | |
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The study, which is based on more than 100 interviews conducted in mid-1996 in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh itself, and elsewhere, recommends strengthening the capacity of the UN system to conduct needs assessments and to mount humanitarian programs in situations of contested sovereignty. A highly critical review of the Occasional Paper, and a response by the Project to it, are included in the Section 8, Selected Commentary on Project Publications.
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humanitarian principles, humanitarian access, human rights, sovereignty, politicization, proportionality, warfare, sovereignty, peacekeeping, relief-to-development continuum, funding, reconstruction, diaspora, local institutions, civil society; Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, CIS, USSR, U.S.; UN, UN Security Council, OSCE, ECHO, NGOs, Red Cross Movement.
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