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Lischer, Sarah. "Military Intervention and the Humanitarian "Force Multiplier"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p100239_index.html>

Lischer, S. K. , 2006-03-22 "Military Intervention and the Humanitarian "Force Multiplier"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p100239_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Humanitarian organizations and human rights groups frequently call for increased political and military action in conflict zones and civil wars. Currently, those groups are demanding increased engagement in the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan. Aid organizations, such as Doctors without Borders, also urged NATO to intervene in Kosovo in the 1990s. NGOs and human rights activists condemned Western states and the United Nations for their passivity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. But in other situations, particularly Iraq, these same organizations condemn Western (specifically US) intervention as destructive and unjust. The current intervention in Afghanistan has caused a division in the humanitarian groups. Some advocate for expanded NATO and US presence; others for a withdrawal. Calls for political or military action clearly erode the traditional neutrality of humanitarian organizations during civil wars. Such new patterns of humanitarian action raise a number of questions: How does vocal support or condemnation of policy affect perceptions of humanitarian actors by interveners, combatants, and local civilians? What is the impact on the conflict and on the security of aid workers? Is the changing role of NGOs related to a changing nature of warfare? This paper develops explanations for humanitarian action during civil wars and, in particular, examines the nexus between civil war, military intervention, and humanitarian organizations. The paper draws examples from cases of intervention (Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo) and non-intervention (Sudan, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo) and also compares the differences among humanitarian organizations in each situation.

Civil-Military Practices in Post-Conflict Reconstruction:The Interaction Between External Military Forces and Local Social Systems in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq

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