title: The challenge of civil-military relations in international peace operations.
abstract: The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state-centric foundations of military intervention run counter to the potential for humanitarian organisations to foster a cosmopolitan ethos that would not only preserve humanitarian principles but also contest statist assumptions about conflict, development and power.
authors.affiliation: Department of Politics, International Studies Centre, University of Plymouth. mpugh@plymouth.ac.uk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pugh
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008889:Military Personnel; D011057:Politics; D012066:Relief Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012998:Somalia; D014857:Warfare; D015022:Yugoslavia