Humanitarian Futures
Challenges and Opportunities
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-74801-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-74801-6 (ISBN)
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The book explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crisis threats, arguing that humanitarians can only meet challenges if they fundamentally shift their approaches to strategic and operational planning. This book will be an essential read for policymakers and practitioners as well as for researchers and students alike.
Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts. Strategically and operationally, such shifts must begin by planning from the future, for the future.
Author Randolph Kent, the UN’s first Humanitarian Coordinator, with experience in some of the most complex crises of modern times, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Sudan and Somalia, provides a blueprint for dealing with ever greater complexity on planet Earth and beyond. That blueprint is not about upgrading existing tools or relying upon tried precedence. Rather, it points to a new paradigm for meeting crises. It begins by looking at the changing nature of humanness and governance, and then turns to plausible future crises based on such changes, before concluding with practical steps for dealing with ever more complex humanitarian threats, now and in the future.
This book will be an essential read for humanitarian policymakers and practitioners as well as for humanitarian and global studies researchers and students who are and want to be engaged in understanding and preparing for ever more complex and unpredictable humanitarian challenges.
Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts. Strategically and operationally, such shifts must begin by planning from the future, for the future.
Author Randolph Kent, the UN’s first Humanitarian Coordinator, with experience in some of the most complex crises of modern times, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Sudan and Somalia, provides a blueprint for dealing with ever greater complexity on planet Earth and beyond. That blueprint is not about upgrading existing tools or relying upon tried precedence. Rather, it points to a new paradigm for meeting crises. It begins by looking at the changing nature of humanness and governance, and then turns to plausible future crises based on such changes, before concluding with practical steps for dealing with ever more complex humanitarian threats, now and in the future.
This book will be an essential read for humanitarian policymakers and practitioners as well as for humanitarian and global studies researchers and students who are and want to be engaged in understanding and preparing for ever more complex and unpredictable humanitarian challenges.
Randolph C. Kent is Visiting Professor, African Leadership Centre, King’s College, London; Honorary Professor at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute and Director of the Humanitarian Futures Programme [www.humanitarianfutures.org]
Introduction Cassandra’s Challenge and the Helenus Alternative 1: An Odyssey 2: The Changing Dimensions of Human Agency 3: Governance and Resource Prioritisation from a Futures Perspective 4: Towards the Brink 5: The Entanglement Nexus 6: Managing Humanitarian Threats in a Polylateral World 7: The Humanitarian Organisation for the Future 8: The Helenus Alternative – Planning from the Future
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Humanitarian Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-74801-X / 103274801X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-74801-6 / 9781032748016 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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