Aid & Relief Programmes

This report examines the disaster resilience efforts of the executive and legislative branches of government and public-private partnerships. Its r...

This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare sys...

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 exposed the severe consequences of breakdowns in emergency comm...

Federal agencies provide a range of assistance to individual victims; state, territorial, and local governments; and non-governmental entities afte...

Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the securit...

While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that enco...

At the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potentia...

With contributions from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New York Governor George Pataki, 9/11: Stories of Courage, Heroism and ...

In the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, there was an outpouring of support and aid from countries around the wor...