This HPG Policy Brief explores the role of principled
humanitarian action in relation to the response to
the current crisis in Pakistan. Drawing on
secondary documentation and interviews with key
informants in July 2009, it asks whether aid
agencies should restrict themselves to a relatively
limited role in an effort to ensure principled
humanitarian action, or whether they should
compromise their principles in an effort to achieve
greater humanitarian outcomes within broader
political and security agendas.
