Cultural Theory and acceptance based security strategies for humanitarian aid workers

Data on People in Danger Security Facts for Humanitarian Aid Agencies Shifting patterns in security incidents affecting humanitarian aid workers and agencies: An analysis of fifteen years of data (1996-2010)

Are more employees of international non-governmental organisations (INGO) than international staff members of UN agencies and the Red Cross Movement victims of violence? Have the UN and Red Cross organisations shifted the burden of working in highly insecure places to INGOs? Have INGOs transferred the risk of frontline delivery to their national staff? Has this process affected men and women in...

Psychological Distress, Depression, Anxiety, and Burnout among International Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Longitudinal Study

BACKGROUND International humanitarian aid workers providing care in emergencies are subjected to numerous chronic and traumatic stressors. OBJECTIVES To examine consequences of such experiences on aid workers' mental health and how the impact is influenced by moderating variables. METHODOLOGY We conducted a longitudinal study in a sample of international non-governmental organizations. Stud...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Container Ship Stowage Problem to humanitarian aid in Palestine using Cultural algorithms

Bioinspired algorithms are a generic term used to refer to the solution of computational problems, based on the planning and implementation based on existing models in the evolutionary process-related nature. Most evolutionary algorithms proposed paradigms that occur in the biology of living things and concepts of natural selection, mutation and reproduction. However, other paradigms that can b...

Challenging Operations: An Ethical Framework to Assist Humanitarian Aid Workers in their Decision-making Processes

INTRODUCTION This paper aims to raise awareness regarding ethical issues in the context of humanitarian action, and to offer a framework for systematically and effectively addressing such issues. METHODS Several cases highlight ethical issues that humanitarian aid workers are confronted with at different levels over the course of their deployments. The first case discusses a situation at a ma...