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UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability

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UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability

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UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability book

Technology, law and results-based management

UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability

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UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability book

Technology, law and results-based management
Edited ByKristin Bergtora Sandvik, and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 29 February 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315692593
Pages 194
eBook ISBN 9781315692593
Subjects Law, Politics & International Relations
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Sandvik, K.B., & Jacobsen, A.K.L. (Eds.). (2016). UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability: Technology, law and results-based management (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315692593

ABSTRACT

Despite the key importance of accountability for the legitimacy of humanitarian action, inadequate academic attention has been given to how the concept of accountability is evolving within the specific branches of the humanitarian enterprise. Up to now, there exists no comprehensive account of what we label the 'technologies of accountability', the effects of their interaction, or the question of how the current turn to decision-making software and biometrics as both the means and ends of accountability may contribute to reshaping humanitarian governance.

UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability explores the UNHCR's quest for accountability by viewing the UNHCR's accountability obligations through the web of institutional relationships within which the agency is placed (beneficiaries, host governments, implementing partners, donors, the Executive Committee and UNGA). The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in order to illuminate the various layers and relationships that constitute accountability and also to reflect on what constitutes good enough accountability.

This book contributes to the discussion regarding how we construct knowledge about concepts in humanitarian studies and is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of anthropology, history, international relations, international law, science, technology studies and socio-legal studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|25 pages

Introduction: quest for an accountability cure

ByKatja Lindskov Jacobsen, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

chapter 2|20 pages

UNHCR and the complexity of accountability in the global space

ByNiamh Kinchin

chapter 3|18 pages

Advancing UNHCR accountability through the Law of International Responsibility

ByMaja Janmyr

chapter 4|17 pages

Narratives of accountability in UNHCR’s refugee resettlement strategy

ByAdèle Garnier

chapter 5|20 pages

UNHCR and accountability for IDP protection in Colombia 1

ByMiriam Bradley

chapter 6|18 pages

Universalizing the refugee category and struggling for accountability: the everyday work of eligibility officers within UNHCR

ByMarion Fresia, Andreas von Känel

chapter 7|19 pages

Accounting for the past: a history of refugee management in Uganda, 1959–64

ByAshley Brooke Rockenbach

chapter 8|21 pages

How accountability technologies shape international protection: results-based management and rights-based approaches revisited

ByKristin Bergtora Sandvik

chapter 9|21 pages

UNHCR, accountability and refugee biometrics

ByKatja Lindskov Jacobsen
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