UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability
Technology, law and results-based management
Despite the key importance of accountability for the legitimacy of humanitarian action, inadequate academic attention has focused on 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.
The new edited volume “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 presents a multidisciplinary approach to illuminate the various layers and relationships that constitute accountability and also reflect on what constitutes good enough accountability. This book contributes to the discussion regarding how we construct knowledge about concepts in humanitarian studies and represents a valuable resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of anthropology, history, international relations, international law, science, technology studies and sociolegal studies.
The book is published in the series “Routledge Humanitarian Studies” and is available here: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138911529
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a senior researcher at PRIO and the director for the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, Norway. She holds an SJD from Harvard Law School (2008).
Katja Lindskov Jacobsen is assistant professor at Metropolitan University College, Denmark, and external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Lancaster University (2011).
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