Humanitarian Policy and Action in Asia
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Alistair D. B. Cook is Coordinator of the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Programme and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Lina Gong is Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China.
Ian Holliday is Registrar at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses chiefly on politics and governance in Myanmar.
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1. Humanitarian policy and action in Asia: analysing challenges, exploring opportunities 2. Humanitarianism and the fourth industrial revolution: saving which lives? 3. Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia 4. Re-coupling security and rights in humanitarian engagement in South Asia: the example of Afghanistan 5. China "striving for achievement" in the humanitarian space? 6. South-South humanitarianism: a collaborative network of Chinese non-governmental organizations responding to the 2015 Nepal earthquake 7. Humanitarian engagement with Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup
