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Fiona Terry - The Paradox of Humanitarian Aid, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J45cWdDEbm0
Time 10:07
Well-known author and long-time relief worker, Fiona Terry, has spent most of the last 20 years involved in humanitarian operations in different parts of the world including northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Myanmar. Terry holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University. She is the author of "Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action," which won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. More recently, she has been teaching at Duke University in North Carolina. She's currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Through the prism of her long experience on the ground, Terry explores the virtues, challenges and responsibilities of providing neutral humanitarian aid in her TEDxRC² talk.
History and Humanitarianism: Understanding humanitarian action—past, present and future, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7K0KWUeVw
Time 12:04
The latest film from the Arts and Humanities Research Council looks at how arts and humanities academics are working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva to help refresh understanding on how principled humanitarian action is delivered, both in the past and today. The ICRC is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance and protection.
Humanitarian assistance in numbers, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEZ7uRYvQaQ
Time 1:45
Explore the findings of our 2016 Global Humanitarian Assistance report. This annual report is a leading resource for understanding financing for humanitarian crises globally. Following the new Sustainable Development Goals and World Humanitarian Summit, our report this year begins to set a baseline for measuring progress on the implementation of global commitments to invest in humanity in the years to come.
Humanitarian Intervention | Head To Head Debate | Oxford Union, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WpiXu4oic
Time 56:25
Global inaction has been criticised for exacerbating humanitarian crises, with the atrocities committed in Rwanda continuing to weigh on the conscience of the international community. However, in light of recent failures in foreign intervention, including Iraq and Libya, the West has had a crisis of confidence in its ability to meet its “Responsibility to Protect”. From the persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar, to the man-made famine in war-torn Yemen, to Assad’s re-consolidation of power in Syria, the international community faces a reckoning with what it means to pursue humanitarian aims in foreign policy. Faced with these dilemmas, should intervention continue to be seen as the appropriate solution for humanitarian crises? Or are the long-term results produced worse than the consequences of inaction?
Humanitarian intervention or imperialism? | Head to Head, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XStlTddkHo4
Time 47:28
Mehdi Hasan challenges former French Foreign Minister and co-founder of Médecins sans Frontières Bernard Kouchner on whether interventions are a facade for Western imperialism.
Is the age of humanitarian intervention over? – UpFront AlJaZeera, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--iHVO7SzzI
Time 25:23
Bernard-Henri Levy makes the case for Western intervention, and we debate the future of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Making it as international development and humanitarian aid professional, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn5JGSDSGLQ
Time 14:37
Stephen speaks about recent changes in the non-profit sector, and how we can work to provide better humanitarian aid.
Understanding ODA loans, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l96lQeNC4s0
Time 34:55
Rob Tew, DI’s Head of Technical Development, to look at how changes in measurement from the DAC are likely to lead to an increase in concessional loans as a proportion of official development assistance (ODA) from donors, and the implications of this for developing countries.