Dissertation Improvement Grant in Sociology: Humanitarian Security in Assistance Contexts

社会学论文改进补助金：援助背景下的人道主义安全

• 批准号: 0527175
• 负责人: J. Craig Jenkins
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-15 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0527175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Sociology; Humanitarian

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant -- Marianne Abbott (Co-PI), The Ohio State University J. Craig Jenkins (PI), The Ohio State UniversityDangerous Intervention: Humanitarian Security in Assistance ContextsHumanitarian aid agencies are challenged by a tragic aspect of their missions -- fatal attacks on assistance providers. This research addresses two broad questions related to this social problem: Who perpetrates fatal attacks against aid workers and why are attackers engaging in this violence? Since the early 1990s, fatal attacks leveled at aid personnel have included a broad range of events and a large number of incidents, spanning from random violence to premeditated murder. Work on this project to date involves the construction of a database of news-reported aid worker fatalities that identifies almost 1,000 aid worker deaths resulting from violent attacks over the past 15 years. The analytical component of this research is twofold: First, we will cross-validate our news dataset with existing agency-reported death estimates to ensure that we have the fullest possible fatality dataset. We will additionally refine variables that identify the nature of these attacks, the agents involved, and the intentions behind these attacks. These enhancements will improve the quality of our analysis of these incidents and the sociopolitical contexts in which they events occur. The broader impact of this research relates to its real-world implications vis-a-vis humanitarian security issues. We seek to discover who is doing the attacking and why. These questions indirectly address one of the key issues facing humanitarian agencies - "what is the best response to violent attack?" Should workers be withdrawn? Should they address violence by persisting and improving coordination with militaries and peacekeepers? As this project is grounded in a careful construction and validation of the aid worker fatality dataset, and seeks to operationalize and refine two very important variables, these data and this analysis will also provide useful information to policymakers and humanitarian aid organizations attempting to provide better security for their aid workers.

美国国家科学基金会论文改进奖——玛丽安·阿博特（共同PI），俄亥俄州立大学J.克雷格·詹金斯（PI），俄亥俄州立大学危险干预：人道主义援助背景下的人道主义安全人道主义援助机构面临着其任务的悲惨方面的挑战——对援助提供者的致命袭击。这项研究解决了与这一社会问题相关的两个广泛问题：谁对援助工作者实施了致命袭击？攻击者为什么参与这种暴力？自20世纪90年代初以来，针对援助人员的致命袭击包括各种各样的事件和大量事件，从随机暴力到有预谋的谋杀。迄今为止，该项目的工作包括建立一个新闻报道的援助工作人员死亡人数数据库，该数据库确定了过去15年中因暴力袭击而死亡的近1 000名援助工作人员。本研究的分析部分是双重的：首先，我们将交叉验证我们的新闻数据集与现有的机构报告的死亡估计数，以确保我们拥有尽可能完整的死亡数据集。我们还将细化变量，以确定这些攻击的性质、涉及的代理以及这些攻击背后的意图。这些改进将提高我们对这些事件及其发生的社会政治背景的分析质量。这项研究的更广泛影响涉及其对人道主义安全问题的现实影响。我们试图找出是谁发动了袭击，以及袭击的原因。这些问题间接地解决了人道主义机构面临的一个关键问题——“对暴力袭击的最佳反应是什么？”工人应该被解雇吗？他们是否应该通过坚持和改善与军队和维和人员的协调来解决暴力问题？由于该项目基于对援助人员死亡数据集的仔细构建和验证，并寻求对两个非常重要的变量进行操作和优化，因此这些数据和分析也将为决策者和人道主义援助组织提供有用的信息，以试图为其援助人员提供更好的安全保障。