Beyond the traditional humanitarian aid model
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2018-05-25

Humanitarian aid has long been dominated by a classical paradigm based on ethics around humanitarian principles, centred on international humanitarian UN agencies and NGOs. In recent years this has been paralleled by a resilience paradigm, focused more on local people and institutions as the first responders to crisis. Whereas classical humanitarianism is rooted in the notion of exceptionalism, resilience humanitarianism starts from the idea of crisis as the new normality.

Thea Hilhorst, Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction, Institute of Socail, Erasmus University.