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The Challenge of Civil‐military Relations in International Peace Operations
Author(s) -
Pugh Michael
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7717.00183
Subject(s) - contest , ethos , humanitarian intervention , humanitarian aid , political science , intervention (counseling) , independence (probability theory) , state (computer science) , psychological intervention , law , medicine , politics , computer science , statistics , mathematics , algorithm , psychiatry
The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state‐centric foundations of military intervention run counter to the potential for humanitarian organisations to foster a cosmopolitan ethos that would not only preserve humanitarian principles but also contest statist assumptions about conflict, development and power.