Legal Challenges in the Provision of Humanitarian Assistance: The Case of Non-international Armed Conflicts

Kuijt, Emilie E.

doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-091-6_9

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law Volume 17, 2014

2015

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6265-091-6_9

|View full text |Cite

Legal Challenges in the Provision of Humanitarian Assistance: The Case of Non-international Armed Conflicts

Emilie E. Kuijt¹

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2016

2018

Publication Types

Select...

Article2

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent2

Authors

Journals

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“… 45 E Kuijt, Humanitarian Assistance and State Soveriegnty in International Law (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2015 ). …”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis Communication in Public Health Emergencies: The Limits of ‘Legal Control’ and the Risks for Harmful Outcomes in a Digital Age

Quinn

2018

Life Sci Soc Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Communication by public authorities during a crisis situation is an essential and indispensable part of any response to a situation that may threaten both life and property. In the online connected world possibilities for such communication have grown further, in particular with the opportunity that social media presents. As a consequence, communication strategies have become a key plank of responses to crises ranging from epidemics to terrorism to natural disaster. Such strategies involve a range of innovative practices on social media. Whilst being able to bring about positive effects, they can also bring about a range of harmful unintended side effects. This include economic harms produced by incorrect information and a range of social harms that can be fuelled by myths and rumours, worsening negative phenomena such as stigmatisation and discrimination. Given the potential for such harms, one might expect that affected or potentially affected individuals would be able to challenge such measures before courts or administrative tribunals. As this paper demonstrates however this is not the case. More often than not seemingly applicable legal approaches are unlikely to be able to engage such methods. This is often because such measures represent activities that are purely expressive in nature and therefore not capable of imposing any binding legal or corporeal changes on individuals. Whilst some forms of soft law may pose requirements for public officials involved in such activities (e.g. codes of conduct or of professional ethics), they are not likely to offer potentially harmed individuals the chance to to challenge particular communication strategies before courts or legal tribunals. The result is that public authorities largely have a free reign to communicate how they wish and do not have to have to comply with a range of requirements (e.g. relating to form and substantive) content) that would in general apply to most forms of official administrative act.

show abstract

“… 45 E Kuijt, Humanitarian Assistance and State Soveriegnty in International Law (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2015 ). …”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis Communication in Public Health Emergencies: The Limits of ‘Legal Control’ and the Risks for Harmful Outcomes in a Digital Age

Quinn

2018

Life Sci Soc Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

New publications in humanitarian action and the law

2016

Int. rev. Red Cross

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

hi@scite.ai

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

Legal Challenges in the Provision of Humanitarian Assistance: The Case of Non-international Armed Conflicts

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Crisis Communication in Public Health Emergencies: The Limits of ‘Legal Control’ and the Risks for Harmful Outcomes in a Digital Age

Crisis Communication in Public Health Emergencies: The Limits of ‘Legal Control’ and the Risks for Harmful Outcomes in a Digital Age

New publications in humanitarian action and the law

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About