Cities at war, wars in cities: decentralized cooperation and humanitarian action, 2002

01/08/2002

The development of humanitarian assistance in situations of natural disasters and armed conflict is one of the highlights of the last two decades. The number of actors in the field, but also donors, has increased and diversified. For a long time, an "agrarian" tropism prevailed: the Cold War wars seemed to be concentrated in the rural backyards of the world. This perception of reality has finally cracked.