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Disaster Response, Peace and Conflict in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka / Part 1: The Congestion of Humanitarian Space

Yes / ¿Part 1: The congestion of humanitarian space¿, assesses what affect the rapid proliferation
of the international aid community¿s presence in Sri Lanka has had on local level
relationships and emergency response capacities. It contends that the burgeoning presence
of aid agencies resulted in humanitarian assistance becoming a hotly contested and
competitive activity. It goes on to identify the possible factors that have contributed to the
rapid congestion of this space in suggesting an explanation of why the humanitarian
communities¿ normative standards appear to have failed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/931
Date January 2006
CreatorsHarris, S.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeWorking Paper
Rights© 2006 University of Bradford. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk).
Relationhttp://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/confres/papers/pdfs/CCR16.pdf

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