Humanitarian trends and dilemmas

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Notes

1. Unless indicated, ‘Oxfam’ is used to designate any of the national affiliates of Oxfam International. Oxfam GB is referred to as OGB.

2. Paul Smith-Lomas, then OGB Humanitarian Director, personal interview 2004.

3. Available at www.ifrc.org/publicat/conduct/code.asp (retrieved 6 October 2005).

4. Armor Group, for example, became a signatory to the Code.

5. With a few honourable exceptions, OGB among them (Mackintosh 1997).

6. Notably Jonathan Goodhand at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.

7. Conflict-related Development Analysis. More information can be found via UNDP's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery at www.undp.org/bcpr/ (retrieved 6 October 2005).

8. Conflict Analysis Framework. More information can be found via the World Bank's Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit at http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/67ByDocName/ConflictAnalysis (retrieved 6 October 2005).

9. These remarks are based largely on personal observation during visits to India and Sri Lanka in May 2005.

10. My own observation from visiting in October 2004. See also Herson 2005.

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Tony Vaux

Tony Vaux is the founding director of Humanitarian Initiatives, an organisation which promotes exchange on conflict-related issues among practitioners. As an independent consultant, he has worked most recently for DFID, UNDP, and Swiss Development Cooperation; and in 2005 led a UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) team evaluating relief assistance for those affected by the Asian tsunami. He worked with Oxfam GB for 27 years, during which time he was responsible for its work in West India (1976–1980) and in East India and Bhutan (1982–1984), and for coordinating its emergency response department (1984–1994). From 1994 to 1999, he managed OGB's programmes in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.