Tackling the global challenge: Humanitarian catastrophes

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Abstract

"Humanitarian catastrophes," conflicts and calamities generating both widespread human suffering and destructive events, require a wide range of emergency resources. This paper answers a number of questions that humanitarian catastrophes generate: Why and how do the most - developed countries - those with the resources, capabilities, and willingness to help-intervene in specific types of disasters? What ethical and legal guidelines shape our interventions? How well do we achieve our goals? It then suggests a number of changes to improve humanitarian responses, including better NGO-government cooperation, increased research on the best disaster response methods, clarification of the criteria and roles for humanitarian (military) interventions, and development of post-2015 Millennium Development Goals with more accurate progress measures. Copyright 2014 by the article author(s).

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Iserson, K. V. (2014). Tackling the global challenge: Humanitarian catastrophes. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. eScholarship. https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.12.20125

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