Civil society and humanitarian action: NGOs’ Roles in peace Support Operations

This paper deals with the participation of NGOs in humanitarian intervention and peace operations. Knowledge about this area of action is of great importance to understand both the role(s) of humanitarian NGOs and the transformation of the nature, composition, and actions of multilateral peace missions. The paper is based on the Humanitarian Non Governmental Organizations Representatives (HNGOsRep) dataset. HNGOsRep is the survey of the opinions of the representatives of 28 humanitarian NGOs and networks of NGOs, based in Geneva and Brussels, active in the field of humanitarian assistance, peace building, and conflict transformation and mediation. The analysis of data supports the thesis that the relation between NGOs and the institutions responsible for security and peace management is important to operation results, and enlightens the NGOs’ roles in humanitarian intervention.