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Papers by Dennis Dijkzeul
Springer eBooks, Oct 16, 2021
The complex and chronic nature of humanitarian crises is forcing humanitarian organizations to ad... more The complex and chronic nature of humanitarian crises is forcing humanitarian organizations to adapt their strategies. More than that, they need to ask themselves who they are, what they stand for and who their target groups are.
Social Science Research Network, 2022
In South Sudan, the humanitarian context is challenging. needed to be able to do so in the near f... more In South Sudan, the humanitarian context is challenging. needed to be able to do so in the near future. persist in society and among humanitarian staff. because it has hampered capacity-building and advocacy efforts at all levels of the response. Despite these challenges, the OPDs have further professionalized due to support from inclusion-focused NGOs, which operate under a dual mandate, in both development and humanitarian sectors, and which also work on stabilization, inclusive governance and civil society development. In 2020, eight OPDs founded a national umbrella body, the South Sudan outside Juba and many OPDs need to invest further in capacity-building to operate independently from their international partners. intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, are widespread and communication barriers continue to exist. However, organizations have for persons with disabilities. They: involve community leaders and raise their awareness on inclusion From Commitment to Action: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Response in South Sudan? 3 (Age and Disability Consortium, 2018, p. 10): 1) data and information management; 2) addressing barriers; 3) participation of older people and people with disabilities and strengthening of their capacities. From Commitment to Action: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Response in South Sudan? 10 remains in a serious humanitarian crisis. In 2021, more than 8.3 million of the many areas. Almost half of the population do not have access to primary health children being acutely malnourished. This is the highest level of food insecurity and malnutrition since independence (ibid.). The quantity of water available per collect enough for drinking (OCHA, 2021a, p.26). Subnational violence, violence against humanitarian personnel and assets, bureaucratic impediments, operational environment for humanitarian aid workers and aggravate the humanitarian crisis on the ground (OCHA, 2021b). Persons with disabilities are at high risk of exclusion. South Sudan is one of the processes to do so have stalled. Chapter 3 will provide more details about the situation of persons with disabilities and the legal and policy context.
Berghahn Books, Aug 13, 2021
De maakbare mensheid: Een verkenning van argumentaties in het debat over enhancement en transhuma... more De maakbare mensheid: Een verkenning van argumentaties in het debat over enhancement en transhumanisme. authors, Dijkzeul, DBF. source, Faculty of Humanities Theses (2011). full text, The full text of this item is not available. document type, Master thesis. ...
Ethics, Policy and Environment, 2003
LRRD, humanitare Ubergangshilfe und Resilienz sind jeweils eigenstandige Konzepte und wurden alle... more LRRD, humanitare Ubergangshilfe und Resilienz sind jeweils eigenstandige Konzepte und wurden alle als Mittel zur Schliesung der Lucke zwischen humanitarer Hilfe und Entwicklungshilfe vorgeschlagen. Alle drei Konzepte weisen jedoch verschiedene Schwachen bzw. Mangel auf. Obwohl sich Resilienz als Konzept bei den Akteuren der humanitaren und der Entwicklungshilfe inzwischen groser Beliebtheit erfreut, bestehen die Schwachen, die fruher mit LRRD und der humanitaren Ubergangshilfe verbunden waren, fort. Selbst die vergleichsweise positive Situation und Entwicklung in Norduganda zeigen, wie schwierig es ist, alle Lucken zu schliesen. Dies ist jedoch notwendig, wenn Resilienz (oder andere integrative Ansatze, die in Zukunft ggf. entwickelt werden) mehr sein soll als ein bloses Schlagwort mit begrenzter Wirkung in der taglichen Praxis. Schlieslich handelt es sich nicht nur um ein konzeptionelles Problem, sondern auch um organisatorisch und politisch schwierige Fragen im Hinblick auf die Re...
The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory, 2015
PART 1: Introduction: 1. William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul - NGOing: Practice, Bridging and P... more PART 1: Introduction: 1. William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul - NGOing: Practice, Bridging and Power PART 2: Theory 2. Morten Skumsrud Andersen - How to Study NGOs in Practice: A Relational Approach, 3. Karen A. Mingst and James P. Muldoon, Jr. - Global Governance and NGOs: Reconceptualizing International Relations for the 21st Century, 4. Anna Ohanyan - Network Institutionalism: A New Synthesis for NGO Studies PART 3: Crosscutting Evidence: History, Region, Accountability 5. Bob Reinalda - The Coevolution of Non-Governmental and Intergovernmental Organizations in Historical Perspective, 6. Elizabeth A. Bloodgood - Being an NGO in the OECD, 7. Cristina M. Balboa - The Legitimacy and Accountability of International NGOs PART 4: Case Evidence: NGOs and Networks 8. Shareen Hertel - The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Public/Private Partnerships for Labor Rights Advocacy 9. Patrice C. McMahon - NGOs in Peacebuilding: High Expectations, Mixed Results 10. William E. DeMars - Follow the Partners, 11. Dennis Dijkzeul - Heart of Paradox: War, Rape and NGOs in the DR Congo PART 5: Conclusions and Implications 12. William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul - Conclusions and Implications: NGO Research and International Relations Theory
Handbuch Krisenforschung, 2020
Das Begriffspaar „humanitare Krise“ verbindet zwei Worte, deren Bedeutung und Abgrenzung umstritt... more Das Begriffspaar „humanitare Krise“ verbindet zwei Worte, deren Bedeutung und Abgrenzung umstritten sind. Obwohl einige Disziplinen Wege zur Datensammlung und -analyse humanitarer Krisen entwickelt haben, sind sie doch mit dem Problem konfrontiert, diese genauer zu definieren. Das Kapitel analysiert Versuche unterschiedlicher Disziplinen und Experten sowie Expertinnen, humanitare Krisen zu beschreiben und zu definieren (Humanitares Volkerecht, Public Health und Humanitarian Studies). Der Beitrag untersucht unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen und Perspektiven, diskutiert aber auch die Defizite, die mit den jeweiligen Sichtweisen verbunden sind, die oft ein partielles und technokratisches Bild von Krisen zeichnen, das wenig kontextualisiert wird und den politischen Ursachen von Krisen und insbesondere der Rolle lokaler Akteure kaum gerecht wird. Schlieslich pladiert das Kapitel fur eine multiperspektivische und machtsensiblere Definition von Krisen und eine feinkornigere Sprache, um die Diversitat von Krisen adaquat zu fassen und schlieslich allen Beteiligten gerecht zu werden.
Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Cong0, 2006
Providing medical support to the local population during a chronic crisis is difficult. The crisi... more Providing medical support to the local population during a chronic crisis is difficult. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is characterized by high excess mortality, ongoing armed violence, mass forced displacement, interference by neighboring countries, resource exploitation, asset stripping, and the virtual absence of the state, has led to great poverty and a dearth of funds for the support of the health system. This monograph asks: What management and financing approaches are used by NGOs to raise access to health care, while strengthening the capacity and quality of the local health care system in a situation of chronic crisis in the eastern DRC? Specific objectives of the study are
1. To identify which management and financing approaches, including the setting of fees, are used by the four NGOs supporting health care in the eastern DRC.
2. To determine how these financing approaches affect utilization rates in the health zones supported by the four NGOs.
3. To assess how these utilization rates compare with donor and humanitarian standards.
4. To determine at what level fees must be set to allow for cost recovery or cost sharing in health facilities.
5. To identify the managerial problems confronting the four NGOs.
Many epidemiological and public health studies focus on the interaction between health providers and target groups. This study concentrates more on how the relationship between the supporting NGOs and the local health system actually develops. In addition, a common aspect of many of the epidemiological and public health studies is the search for an optimal, or at least appropriate, management and financing approach. This comparative organizational analysis shows that these organizations would like to realize such an approach, but that the daily pressures of ongoing insecurity, uncertain financing, lack of scientific data, and a focus on implementation—saving lives takes priority—prevent this to a large extent. The organizations instead attempt to improve their operations gradually over time.
As a result, actual implementation of health care support may differ consid-
erably from the recommended approach as detailed in the guidelines of
Sphere or standard epidemiological research.
Berghahn Books, Aug 13, 2021
International Organizations Revisited
International Organizations Revisited
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
The term “humanitarian crisis” combines two words of controversial meaning and definitions that a... more The term “humanitarian crisis” combines two words of controversial meaning and definitions that are often used in very different situations. For example, there is no official definition of “humanitarian crisis” in international humanitarian law. Although some academic disciplines have developed ways of collecting and analyzing data on (potential) crises, all of them have difficulties understanding, defining, and even identifying humanitarian crises. Following an overview of the use of the compound noun “humanitarian crisis,” three perspectives from respectively the disciplines International Humanitarian Law, Public Health, and Humanitarian Studies are discussed in order to explore their different but partly overlapping approaches to (incompletely) defining, representing, and negotiating humanitarian crises. These disciplinary perspectives often paint an incomplete and technocratic picture of crises that is rarely contextualized and, thus, fails to reflect adequately the political ca...
Springer eBooks, Oct 16, 2021
The complex and chronic nature of humanitarian crises is forcing humanitarian organizations to ad... more The complex and chronic nature of humanitarian crises is forcing humanitarian organizations to adapt their strategies. More than that, they need to ask themselves who they are, what they stand for and who their target groups are.
Social Science Research Network, 2022
In South Sudan, the humanitarian context is challenging. needed to be able to do so in the near f... more In South Sudan, the humanitarian context is challenging. needed to be able to do so in the near future. persist in society and among humanitarian staff. because it has hampered capacity-building and advocacy efforts at all levels of the response. Despite these challenges, the OPDs have further professionalized due to support from inclusion-focused NGOs, which operate under a dual mandate, in both development and humanitarian sectors, and which also work on stabilization, inclusive governance and civil society development. In 2020, eight OPDs founded a national umbrella body, the South Sudan outside Juba and many OPDs need to invest further in capacity-building to operate independently from their international partners. intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, are widespread and communication barriers continue to exist. However, organizations have for persons with disabilities. They: involve community leaders and raise their awareness on inclusion From Commitment to Action: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Response in South Sudan? 3 (Age and Disability Consortium, 2018, p. 10): 1) data and information management; 2) addressing barriers; 3) participation of older people and people with disabilities and strengthening of their capacities. From Commitment to Action: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Humanitarian Response in South Sudan? 10 remains in a serious humanitarian crisis. In 2021, more than 8.3 million of the many areas. Almost half of the population do not have access to primary health children being acutely malnourished. This is the highest level of food insecurity and malnutrition since independence (ibid.). The quantity of water available per collect enough for drinking (OCHA, 2021a, p.26). Subnational violence, violence against humanitarian personnel and assets, bureaucratic impediments, operational environment for humanitarian aid workers and aggravate the humanitarian crisis on the ground (OCHA, 2021b). Persons with disabilities are at high risk of exclusion. South Sudan is one of the processes to do so have stalled. Chapter 3 will provide more details about the situation of persons with disabilities and the legal and policy context.
Berghahn Books, Aug 13, 2021
De maakbare mensheid: Een verkenning van argumentaties in het debat over enhancement en transhuma... more De maakbare mensheid: Een verkenning van argumentaties in het debat over enhancement en transhumanisme. authors, Dijkzeul, DBF. source, Faculty of Humanities Theses (2011). full text, The full text of this item is not available. document type, Master thesis. ...
Ethics, Policy and Environment, 2003
LRRD, humanitare Ubergangshilfe und Resilienz sind jeweils eigenstandige Konzepte und wurden alle... more LRRD, humanitare Ubergangshilfe und Resilienz sind jeweils eigenstandige Konzepte und wurden alle als Mittel zur Schliesung der Lucke zwischen humanitarer Hilfe und Entwicklungshilfe vorgeschlagen. Alle drei Konzepte weisen jedoch verschiedene Schwachen bzw. Mangel auf. Obwohl sich Resilienz als Konzept bei den Akteuren der humanitaren und der Entwicklungshilfe inzwischen groser Beliebtheit erfreut, bestehen die Schwachen, die fruher mit LRRD und der humanitaren Ubergangshilfe verbunden waren, fort. Selbst die vergleichsweise positive Situation und Entwicklung in Norduganda zeigen, wie schwierig es ist, alle Lucken zu schliesen. Dies ist jedoch notwendig, wenn Resilienz (oder andere integrative Ansatze, die in Zukunft ggf. entwickelt werden) mehr sein soll als ein bloses Schlagwort mit begrenzter Wirkung in der taglichen Praxis. Schlieslich handelt es sich nicht nur um ein konzeptionelles Problem, sondern auch um organisatorisch und politisch schwierige Fragen im Hinblick auf die Re...
The NGO Challenge for International Relations Theory, 2015
PART 1: Introduction: 1. William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul - NGOing: Practice, Bridging and P... more PART 1: Introduction: 1. William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul - NGOing: Practice, Bridging and Power PART 2: Theory 2. Morten Skumsrud Andersen - How to Study NGOs in Practice: A Relational Approach, 3. Karen A. Mingst and James P. Muldoon, Jr. - Global Governance and NGOs: Reconceptualizing International Relations for the 21st Century, 4. Anna Ohanyan - Network Institutionalism: A New Synthesis for NGO Studies PART 3: Crosscutting Evidence: History, Region, Accountability 5. Bob Reinalda - The Coevolution of Non-Governmental and Intergovernmental Organizations in Historical Perspective, 6. Elizabeth A. Bloodgood - Being an NGO in the OECD, 7. Cristina M. Balboa - The Legitimacy and Accountability of International NGOs PART 4: Case Evidence: NGOs and Networks 8. Shareen Hertel - The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Public/Private Partnerships for Labor Rights Advocacy 9. Patrice C. McMahon - NGOs in Peacebuilding: High Expectations, Mixed Results 10. William E. DeMars - Follow the Partners, 11. Dennis Dijkzeul - Heart of Paradox: War, Rape and NGOs in the DR Congo PART 5: Conclusions and Implications 12. William E. DeMars and Dennis Dijkzeul - Conclusions and Implications: NGO Research and International Relations Theory
Handbuch Krisenforschung, 2020
Das Begriffspaar „humanitare Krise“ verbindet zwei Worte, deren Bedeutung und Abgrenzung umstritt... more Das Begriffspaar „humanitare Krise“ verbindet zwei Worte, deren Bedeutung und Abgrenzung umstritten sind. Obwohl einige Disziplinen Wege zur Datensammlung und -analyse humanitarer Krisen entwickelt haben, sind sie doch mit dem Problem konfrontiert, diese genauer zu definieren. Das Kapitel analysiert Versuche unterschiedlicher Disziplinen und Experten sowie Expertinnen, humanitare Krisen zu beschreiben und zu definieren (Humanitares Volkerecht, Public Health und Humanitarian Studies). Der Beitrag untersucht unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen und Perspektiven, diskutiert aber auch die Defizite, die mit den jeweiligen Sichtweisen verbunden sind, die oft ein partielles und technokratisches Bild von Krisen zeichnen, das wenig kontextualisiert wird und den politischen Ursachen von Krisen und insbesondere der Rolle lokaler Akteure kaum gerecht wird. Schlieslich pladiert das Kapitel fur eine multiperspektivische und machtsensiblere Definition von Krisen und eine feinkornigere Sprache, um die Diversitat von Krisen adaquat zu fassen und schlieslich allen Beteiligten gerecht zu werden.
Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Cong0, 2006
Providing medical support to the local population during a chronic crisis is difficult. The crisi... more Providing medical support to the local population during a chronic crisis is difficult. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is characterized by high excess mortality, ongoing armed violence, mass forced displacement, interference by neighboring countries, resource exploitation, asset stripping, and the virtual absence of the state, has led to great poverty and a dearth of funds for the support of the health system. This monograph asks: What management and financing approaches are used by NGOs to raise access to health care, while strengthening the capacity and quality of the local health care system in a situation of chronic crisis in the eastern DRC? Specific objectives of the study are
1. To identify which management and financing approaches, including the setting of fees, are used by the four NGOs supporting health care in the eastern DRC.
2. To determine how these financing approaches affect utilization rates in the health zones supported by the four NGOs.
3. To assess how these utilization rates compare with donor and humanitarian standards.
4. To determine at what level fees must be set to allow for cost recovery or cost sharing in health facilities.
5. To identify the managerial problems confronting the four NGOs.
Many epidemiological and public health studies focus on the interaction between health providers and target groups. This study concentrates more on how the relationship between the supporting NGOs and the local health system actually develops. In addition, a common aspect of many of the epidemiological and public health studies is the search for an optimal, or at least appropriate, management and financing approach. This comparative organizational analysis shows that these organizations would like to realize such an approach, but that the daily pressures of ongoing insecurity, uncertain financing, lack of scientific data, and a focus on implementation—saving lives takes priority—prevent this to a large extent. The organizations instead attempt to improve their operations gradually over time.
As a result, actual implementation of health care support may differ consid-
erably from the recommended approach as detailed in the guidelines of
Sphere or standard epidemiological research.
Berghahn Books, Aug 13, 2021
International Organizations Revisited
International Organizations Revisited
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
The term “humanitarian crisis” combines two words of controversial meaning and definitions that a... more The term “humanitarian crisis” combines two words of controversial meaning and definitions that are often used in very different situations. For example, there is no official definition of “humanitarian crisis” in international humanitarian law. Although some academic disciplines have developed ways of collecting and analyzing data on (potential) crises, all of them have difficulties understanding, defining, and even identifying humanitarian crises. Following an overview of the use of the compound noun “humanitarian crisis,” three perspectives from respectively the disciplines International Humanitarian Law, Public Health, and Humanitarian Studies are discussed in order to explore their different but partly overlapping approaches to (incompletely) defining, representing, and negotiating humanitarian crises. These disciplinary perspectives often paint an incomplete and technocratic picture of crises that is rarely contextualized and, thus, fails to reflect adequately the political ca...