Overview
- Analyses the plight and capacities of persons with disabilities in humanitarian crises
- Discusses the history of international legal and humanitarian efforts to address the needs of persons with disabilities
- Focuses on different levels of global governance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development (PSDID)
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Keywords
- Persons with disabilities
- Human rights
- Humanitarian action
- Norm implementation
- NGO
- Global governance
- Governance
- Disability
- Inclusion
- International relations
- Bangladesh
- South Sudan
- Norm cluster
- Non-governmental organization
- United Nations
- Multi-level analysis
- Norm robustness
- Organizations of persons with disabilities
About this book
This Pivot studies disability inclusion in humanitarian crises. It addresses the challenges of recognizing and including persons with disabilities and indicates the degree to which disability is being mainstreamed in international law and humanitarian action. Further, it explores how international organizations have promoted a rights-based understanding of disability in international law, and to what extent this understanding has gained acceptance in humanitarian policy and practice. Theoretically, Funke and Dijkzeul explore the robustness of the disability inclusion norm cluster during processes of institutionalization, translation, and implementation. The book examines these processes from a multi-level perspective, which involves a variety of actors beyond states, including organizations of persons with disabilities. Situating their analysis within the literature on inclusion in humanitarian crises as well as the nexus of humanitarian action and development, the authors argue forincreased focus on processes “below” the international level in international relations and international law scholarship to better understand disability inclusion.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Carolin Funke is an expert in disability inclusion and internal displacement. She currently works at TU Dortmund University and is research affiliate at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Before, she was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum and research fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. She has conducted extensive field research in Georgia and Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Her latest book "Durable Solutions: Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia" was published in 2022.
Dennis Dijkzeul is Professor of conflict and organization research at Ruhr University Bochum. He was the founding director of the Humanitarian Affairs Program at Columbia University in New York. He has conducted research on international and local organizations in the United States, Europe, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, and Afghanistan. His latest books are "The New Humanitarians in International Practice: Emerging Actors and Contested Principles" (2016, with Zeynep Sezgin), "Diaspora Organizations in International Affairs" (2020, with Margit Fauser), and "International Organizations Revisited: Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World" (2021, with Dirk Salomons).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Crises
Book Subtitle: Robust Human Rights Norms?
Authors: Carolin Funke, Dennis Dijkzeul
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53808-7Due: 06 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53809-4Due: 06 September 2024
Series ISSN: 2945-6614
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6622
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour