Relief and protection: the role of non-state actors [draft]

It is broken down into four sections: a scenario typology of the most common sources of humanitarian emergencies the UN has faced and will likely face in coming years, and a matrix of operating environments these emergencies can present; a review of the current state of knowledge about the internal dynamics of collapsed states and warlordism, the most frequent and problematic operating environment for humanitarian response; an inventory of the most significant non-state actors emerging in these complex emergencies, and an assessment of their interests and the obstacles they can pose for humanitarian response; and, a review of strategies for co-existing with, circumventing, co-opting, or confronting those non-state actors.