A Global Force for Good? Human Rights and the U.S. Military in International Disaster Relief Operations
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Authors
Koningisor, Jessica
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Disaster Relief, Human Rights, HA/DR, Natural Disasters, International Human Rights Law
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2019-05
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Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
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This paper examines whether U.S. military support to international natural disaster relief properly accounts for the human rights of the disaster affected populations. The analysis begins with a comprehensive overview of the international legal framework of disaster response and the development of a codified human rights based approach to disaster relief operations. It then specifically assess how that international framework provides human rights guidance for responding military actors. The remainder of the paper examines how the U.S. military accounts for human rights of the affected population in the law and doctrine governing U.S. military disaster relief operations. The analysis concludes with a brief examination of three examples of mission execution assessed against the legal and doctrinal guidance, to determine if U.S. military action considers a human rights based approach.
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CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) Thesis document
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University of California, Berkeley
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.