Humanitarian Framework Research Articles

Armas de precisión y el respeto al derecho operacional en Colombia. Tiradores escogidos. Garantía de cumplimiento del derecho internacional de los conflictos armados (DICA)

<span>La utilización con perspectiva humanitaria de ciertas armas de precisión por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia, contribuye a minimizar los riesgos de daño incidental o colateral dentro del conflicto armado de carácter no internacional que padece Colombia desde hace más de cuarenta años. La combinación de plataformas aéreas, fusiles de largo alcance y tiradores escogidos, garantiza el cumplimiento de las normas internacionales sobre conducción de hostilidades, y previenen la judicialización de los miembros de la Fuerza Pública.</span>

Het asielbeleid van de Europese Unie: een veiligheidskwestie?

This article explores whether the development of a common European asylum policy, and the construction of a directive on minimum standards for the granting of refugee status, is dominated by a security discourse. In such a security discourse, asylum is considered a cross-border threat to the realization of the internal market and the internal stability of Member States. While the social construction of asylum as a problem puts pressure on the traditional humanitarian framework on which international refugee protection is being based. The tension between these two approaches seems to result in a restrictive European common asylum policy, with a focus on control and prevention of migration into the EU. In this article, we analyse the tensions between the security and the humanitarian discourse in primary and secondary sources, using the model of Laclau and Mouffe. We conclude that while creating a common asylum policy, a securitization process is present.

Politicizing Indiscriminate Terror: Imagining an Inclusive Framework for the Anti-Landmines Movement

Landmines are indiscriminate weapons of mass terror that detrimentally affect human beings, the ecological system they live in, the regional economy, and political stability. Despite the extensive nature of the impacts, the landmine crisis is almost exclusively advocated on the basis of human rights principles. A comprehensive framework that considers environmental degradation as a principal aftermath of the global landmine crisis is critically missing from the broader matrix of variables around which the anti-landmine movement converges. This article discusses the current humanitarian framework of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines; its shortcomings to address the interconnected impacts of landmines on the environment; and attempts to describe what an inclusive, environmentally sensitive framework would have to incorporate to address the overall landmine impacts effectively.