World Humanitarian Summit: Meeting Expectations or Falling Short?

• Main Author: Cook, Alistair David Blair
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Country and Region Studies; Global; Non-Traditional Security
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80659; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40775
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul, Turkey on 23 and 24 May 2016 saw 9,000 delegates from governments, United Nations agencies and civil society come together to address a ‘broken humanitarian system’. Did it achieve what it set out to do?