Humanitarians in Hostile Territory

Peter W. Van Arsdale. Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and a senior researcher with eCrossCulture Corporation. He has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Romania, Bosnia, Indonesia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Guyana, Peru, and El Salvador, and recently helped initiate a program in East Timor with Nobel Peace Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta. He is chair of the Committee on Human Rights of the Society for Applied Anthropology and member of the Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association. Among his many publications in the field is Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands (2006). Derrin R. Smith, Ph.D., is a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, working on terrorism finance and sanctions, trafficking in persons, Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons, and broader issues involving human rights, labor, and democracy.

• PART I: SETTING THE STAGE 1. Humanitarianism, Development, and Intervention A Moral Template / The Humanitarian Enterprise / The Development Enterprise / Warriors, Builders, Chaplains, and Humanitarians / Types of Change and Intervention / An Ethics of Cooperation and Intervention 2. Outside the Green Zone: Non-Permissive Areas of Operation The Green Zone/ "Country Operations" and "Country Teams" / Humanitarianism and Warfare / The Accidental War: The 2006 Crisis between Israel and Lebanon / Armed and Unarmed NSAs / The Privatization of War 3. In Situ Preliminary Assessments, Threat Analyses, and Kofi Annan's Lessons The Necessity of Preliminary Assessments / Provincial Reconstruction Teams / The Country Operations Plan / Preliminary Assessments and Humanitarian Interventions / Threat, Risk, and Vulnerability Analyses / Kofi Annan's Lessons PART II: ON SITE, IN ACTION 4. Training and Equipping for Deployment Personal Preparedness / Equipment Needs and Checklists / Training Protocols / Self-Doctoring Kits and Medical Training / Legal Checklists 5. Transit Operations, Communications, and Smart Technologies Transit Operations - Always Necessary, Often Controversial / Planning for Threats - Obviously Needed, Occasionally Ignored / Communications / Smart Technologies and Electronic Innovations / Message Dissemination and Public Relations 6. Best Practices for Hazardous Areas of Operation: Fixed Sites and Field Schools Military Fortresses, Bases, and Camps / Romanian Military Camps and Operations / Fixing Perimeters, Establishing Sites, and Security Operations / Permanent Urban Facilities / Permanent Rural Facilities / Permanent Remote Facilities / Temporary Remote Operations / Disengagement PART III: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 7. Foreign Service, Tribal Outreach, and Special Operations The United States Foreign Service / Tribal Outreach and Transition / Three Case Studies / The Battle for Anbar Province / Special Operations 8. Conclusion: Back to the Future A Non-Ideological Stance / Civil Society and Pragmatic Humanitarianism / The Co-Evolution of Warfare and Humanitarianism / Anthropology and the Military / Scenarios and Simulations / Coming Full Circle Appendix Bibliography