I am Professor of Organization and Conflict Research, Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. My research focus are humanitarian studies, management of international and local organizations in crises and local participation.
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. ...
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
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.
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...
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. ...
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
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.
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...
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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.
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.