Military in humanitarian response - 1 --- The armed forces, by its very essence, is built to defend a country from external threats. Humanitarian response involving expat aid workers, founded on ‘foreign’ ideals and concepts such as human rights or Fundamental Principles, should be in any military’s risk registers. Arming ourselves with this basic knowledge may hopefully help better understand their role in humanitarian response and behaviours towards aid workers or affected populations such as refugees and illegal migrants.

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