UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability

Technology, law and results-based management
Herausgeber: Sandvik, Kristin; Jacobsen, Katja

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Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary volume offers an in-depth exploration of accountability in humanitarian action. It explores how three contemporary narratives of global governance - human rights based approaches/international law, new public management, and technology - intersect with different dimensions of UNHCR's accountability endeavor. Drawing on case studies in Afghanistan, Australia, Colombia, the EU, Mauretania, Morocco, Turkey, Uganda and UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, the volume considers the similarities, differences and overlaps between these accountability-strategies as they play out in UNHCR's global field of action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780815355069
• ISBN-10: 0815355068
• Artikelnr.: 50649361

Autorenporträt

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a senior researcher at PRIO and the director for the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, Norway. She holds an SJD from Harvard Law School (2008). Katja Lindskov Jacobsen is assistant professor at Metropolitan University College, Denmark and external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Lancaster University (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. UNHCR and the Quest for Accountability 2. Accounting for
the Deficit: Refugee protection, bureaucratic order, and UNHCR assistance
in Uganda, 1959-66 3. Asylum making: the every-day practice of refugee
status determination within UNHCR 4. UNHCR's Human Rights Obligations:
Applying the International Law Commission's Articles on the Responsibility
of International Organizations 5. IDP protection by UNHCR in Colombia 6.
Narratives of accountability in the UNHCR's refugee resettlement strategy
7. UNHCR Reforms Revisited: Rights-based versus Results-based 8. UNHCR,
Biometric Refugee Registration and Implications for Accountability
Conclusion. The Future of Accountability