Humanitarian Aid in African Studies:

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  • ENOMOTO Tamara
    Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties, Meiji University

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  • 人道支援をめぐる日本のアフリカ研究
  • Trends and Prospects
  • ─傾向と課題

Abstract

<p>Since the 1990s, armed conflicts in Africa have been studied by a number of national and international scholars specialising in a wide range of fields including politics and anthropology. In particular, the nature of actions by the “international community” and humanitarian assistance in response to armed conflicts in Africa have been one of the major subjects of debate. The author was in charge of research and advocacy on humanitarian issues at Oxfam, an international non-governmental organisation, between 2003 and 2015. Along with Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam has been a driving force in the international debate on humanitarian aid and its principles since the 1990s, and has been widely analysed and criticised in the English language literature on humanitarian aid. Drawing on the author's experience at the organisation, this paper attempts to highlight the characteristics of the research on this topic in African studies in Japan and the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead.</p>

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