Vaux, Tony

This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

This issue of Development in Practice presents some of those concerns in the words of practitioners and their academic counterparts. How should Western aid agencies manage their relations with Western governments? How should they relate to local organisations? Should they extend their functions from humanitarian relief to the protection of civilians, and address the political […]