Civilian and Military Engagements in Emergency Response: Coordination Challenges Amidst Information and Power Asymmetries

Session Submission Type: Organized Panel Proposal Application

Abstract

The panel features papers that examine dynamics between/amongst civilian (international NGOs , government aid organizations, communities) and military agents in response to disaster that features large-scale international assistance. Recognising the diversity of international (United Nations, humanitarian organizations) and bilateral assistance typically extended to host countries in a beleaguered state, the panel explores how interfaces between these actors and their host country agents are affected by differences in perspectives about normative limits of aid and the underlying power asymmetry between donor and recipient entities. Using Japan and the Philippines as templates, the panel features four papers that illustrate 4 dimensions of this engagement: (1) military-NGO engagements in humanitarian assistance/disaster response (HA/DR) operations and exercises; (2) principal (sending government)-agent (military) interactions in decisions about non-combat citizen evacuation operation; (3) donor-host state actor-community in local disaster response to typhoon Haiyan; and (4) military-to-military versus host civilian-foreign military engagements within established coordination frameworks during the 2013 typhoon Haiyan.

Area of Study

• Interarea-Border Crossing-Diaspora

Session Organizer

• Rosalie Arcala Hall, University of the Philippines Visayas

Chair

• Wasan Luangprapat, Thammasat University

Individual Presentations

• Who’s the Boss? Civilian-military Coordination Challenges in the Response to the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan Disaster - Rosalie Arcala Hall, University of the Philippines Visayas

• Challenges in Conducting Military Humanitarian Exercises in Foreign States: Japan Self-Defense Forces in Pacific Partnership in the Philippines - Saya Kiba, Doshisha University

• Protection of Japanese Nationals Abroad: Non-combat Evacuation Operations under Japan’s New Security Legislation Framework - Atsushi Yasutomi, Research Institute for Peace and Security

• Temporal versus Quotidian Redux: Everyday Risks, Isolation and Risk Perception in Four Small Island Barangays in the Gigantes Group of Islands, Carles, Iloilo, Philippines - Juhn Chris Espia, University of the Philippines Visayas

Discussant

• Supasawad Chardchawarn, Thammasat University