Citation

Yalçınkaya H. Armed Forces Soc. 2013; 39(3): 489-510.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0095327X12446923

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The question this article addresses is how and to what extent international military forces can support nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in armed conflicts and postconflict arenas. As non-state actors, NGOs have serious security problems and their current protection is not sufficient to secure humanitarian operations. The Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO) was established in 2002 to solve this problem. The ANSO innovation resulted in a new NGO-military security collaboration mechanism. In particular, the article examines whether the NGO-military security collaboration mechanism established between NATO International Security Assistance Force, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, and the ANSO could be a fourth way in narrowing NGOs' security gap in addition to the existing three ways (judicial, theoretical, and practical). I would argue international military forces need to take into account ANSO model organizations for fulfilling their responsibility to secure NGOs in armed conflicts and postconflict arenas.

Language: en