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1 J. Int'l Humanitarian Action 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/jinthuma1 and id is 1 raw text is: Smith Journal of International Humanitarian Action (2016) 1:1 DOI 10.1186/s41018-016-0001-0 Journal of International Humanitarian Action Review of 'In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid' Caroline Abu-Sada (ed.) and 'Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Medecins Sans Frontieres' Perception Project' Caroline Abu-Sada (ed.) James Dominic Smith Book details Abu-Sada C (ed.) In the Eyes of Others: How People in Crises Perceive Humanitarian Aid CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2012 ISBN: 978-1475211832 Abu-Sada C (ed.) Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Medecins Sans Frontieres' Perception Project Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press; 2012 ISBN: 978-0773540866 Keywords: Perception, Humanitarian principles, Humanitarian space, Access Painting pickups pink and the perception of humanitarian aid Painting pickups pink has become an operational imperative for certain humanitarian agencies working in conflict and other unstable contexts. Drawing on the experience of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, In The Eyes of Others opens with a decision made by the organ- isation in 2005 to repaint its all-terrain vehicles a bright shade of pink. This decision was driven by far more than the desire for a change of aesthetic and is illustrative of a number of emerging challenges that threaten the hu- manitarian space within which humanitarian agencies Correspondence: james.dominlcsmth@gma l.com Norre East Thames Foundaton Schoo, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WClB 5DN, UK 4 Springer are able to safely operate; as MSF continued to imple- ment its medical programmes in Ituri Province, the United Nations peacekeeping force active in the region launched military operations with the aim of disarming local militia. The peacekeepers operated in white jeeps that were difficult to distinguish from MSF's own vehi- cles. Fearing that combatants could mistake MSF staff and patients for armed UN soldiers, the organisation implemented measures that it hoped would set MSF apart from other agencies and organisations working in the region. Leaving the pink pickups as a precedential program- matic decision against which to contextualise the discus- sion that follows, the authors proceed to describe MSF's Perception Project, a four-year study implemented between 2007 and 2010. Almost 7000 stakeholders including crisis-affected people, community leaders, politicians, military personnel, MSF employees, and © 2016 Smith. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Common license. and indicate if chanoes were made.

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