ABSTRACT
Peacekeepers, humanitarian and development aid workers tend to swarm ever more into the same countries. Their increased proximity has led to closer cooperation, but also to heightened tensions. Rather than striving to collaborate, some humanitarian agencies and a few development organizations have opted to stay clear and distance themselves from the pack. Others have accepted — or even sought — full integration into comprehensive approaches linking aid with security and diplomatic undertakings. 1 Over the last decade, many development and humanitarian agencies have also concentrated their operations in settings targeted by international stabilization efforts. Afghanistan and Iraq have become the top aid recipients worldwide in monetary and personnel terms, as shown in the statistics on official development assistance (ODA) released by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD. These statistics further indicate that Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, South Sudan and the Palestinian Territories ranked in the top-ten recipients of the DAC members' aid in 2008 and 2009. 2
