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Author Alice Debarre

Alice Debarre

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  • Policy Papers 12-19-2019by Alice Debarre

    Making Sanctions Smarter: Safeguarding Humanitarian Action

    In recent decades, sanctions have increasingly been used as a foreign policy tool. The UN Security Council has imposed a total of fourteen sanctions regimes alongside those imposed autonomously by the EU, the US, and other countries. Despite efforts to institute more targeted sanctions regimes, these regimes continue to impede or prevent the provision of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sanctions, UN Security Council
  • Issue Briefs 06-24-2019by Alice Debarre

    Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in Sanctions Regimes

    There are currently fourteen UN sanctions regimes, which member states are legally required to implement. Many of these are implemented in the context of armed conflict, where international humanitarian law outlines obligations to protect the provision of and access to principled humanitarian action. But despite efforts to make sanctions regimes more targeted, they continue to […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, UN Security Council
  • Issue Briefs 02-28-2019by Alice Debarre and Namie Di Razza

    Pursuing Coordination and Integration for the Protection of Civilians

    In recent years, the UN and its member states have promoted comprehensive approaches and integrated structures and processes to improve coherence and consistency between political peacekeeping, humanitarian, human rights, and development efforts undertaken by the UN and its partners. For POC specifically, coordination between the military, police, and civilian components of peace operations; between peace […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Protection of Civilians
  • Policy Papers 02-20-2019by Alice Debarre

    Delivering Healthcare amid Crisis: The Humanitarian Response in Myanmar

    Myanmar simultaneously faces multiple armed conflicts and crises, each with its own challenges. In Rakhine state, the government’s persecution of the Rohingya people has led to massive displacement, as have decades of armed conflict in Kachin and northern Shan states. Combined with chronic underdevelopment, these humanitarian crises have left people without access to adequate healthcare, […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 01-31-2019by Alice Debarre

    Providing Healthcare in Armed Conflict: The Case of Mali

    Due to ongoing conflict and insecurity in northern Mali, 1.8 million people require humanitarian health assistance, and 2.5 million are considered food insecure. Given the level of need, Mali’s healthcare system is ill-equipped to respond, and humanitarian health actors play an important role filling the gaps.This issue brief maps the challenges these health actors face […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 01-31-2019by Alice Debarre

    Providing Healthcare in Armed Conflict: The Case of Nigeria

    The humanitarian situation in Nigeria’s northeast is deteriorating, with more than 5 million people in need of healthcare and over 800,000 out of the reach of humanitarian actors. Given this level of need and the poor state of the healthcare system in northeastern Nigeria, humanitarian and other nongovernmental health actors play an important role.This issue […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Policy Papers 12-04-2018by Alice Debarre

    Hard to Reach: Providing Healthcare in Armed Conflict

    Armed conflict is a global health issue. Long-lasting and protracted conflicts in particular have consequences not only for the war-wounded but also for the health of entire communities. Over the years, global health actors and humanitarian health actors have developed health policies, guidelines, frameworks, and structures to improve delivery of health services in emergencies or […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 11-29-2018by Alice Debarre, Archibald Henry, and Masooma Rahmaty

    Reaching Internally Displaced Persons to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

    This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, an international framework that authoritatively restates the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs). This presents an opportunity to put the plight of IDPs back on the radar of the international community. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents […]

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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs, Sustainable Development
  • Policy Papers 09-17-2018by Alice Debarre

    Safeguarding Medical Care and Humanitarian Action in the UN Counterterrorism Framework

    In the past decade, counterterrorism measures have had an increasingly adverse impact on the provision of medical care and the conduct of principled humanitarian action in armed conflict settings. Whether inadvertently or not, they have impeded, and at times prevented, the provision of essential and lifesaving aid, often in violation of international humanitarian law (IHL).This […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs, Violent Extremism
  • Issue Briefs 03-06-2018by Alice Debarre

    Humanitarian Action and Sustaining Peace

    While humanitarian action was traditionally designed to be a short-term emergency response, this is increasingly perceived as inaccurate and even undesirable. Humanitarian actors have acknowledged a responsibility to work toward bridging the “humanitarian-development divide” and not to overlook the nexus between addressing and reducing humanitarian needs and building the foundations for sustaining peace.This issue brief […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sustaining Peace

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