BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;Sovereignty\, Order and Conflict presents \;It's Just How Things Are Done: Humanitarian Pr inciples\, Gender\, and Informal Socialization in Aid Work Increasing rese arch on\nhumanitarian communities investigates how the nature of their wor k affects\nhumanitarian workers’ personal lives and vice versa\, especiall y with regards to\nissues such as mental health and sexual violence. The # MeToo movement and\nseveral public scandals have brought to light undeniab le patterns of sexual\nviolence in crisis zones perpetrated by humanitaria n aid workers\; allegations\nreveal a trend of predominantly male-identifi ed humanitarians perpetrating\nsexual violence against both their fellow a id workers and the communities they\npurport to serve. \;Why is sexual \nviolence seemingly endemic to humanitarian communities governed by stron g\nprinciples\, professional codes of conduct\, and oversight? \;\n\nT his manuscript draws on textual analysis\, participant\nobservation\, and in-depth interviews to argue that informal socialization\npractices intera ct with gendered and raced employment structures and “pressure\ncooker” en vironments to normalize certain forms of sexual harassment\, coercion\,\na nd exploitation while labeling them “how things are done.” Specifically\, we argue\nthat social and geographic isolation\, the construction of local spaces and\npeople as “threatening\,” and the sexualization of leisure ti me and mental\nhealth practices all contribute to the conditions of possib ility for sexual\nharassment and assault to be normalized and seen as “how things are done.”Sarah ParkinsonAssistant ProfessorJohn Hopkins Universit yDr. Sarah E. Parkinson is the Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Sc ience and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines organizational behavior and social change in contexts of war and disaster. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa\, Parkinson studies how actors such as military organizations\, political parties\, and human itarian groups cope with crisis\, disruption\, and fragmentation. She has conducted extensive fieldwork among Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Leb anon as well as with humanitarian responders in Iraqi Kurdistan.Click here to register \;For more information please contact\, Ryan Griffiths\, rgriff01@syr.edu or to request additional accommodation arrangements\, ple ase contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu. DTEND:20210222T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T091806Z DTSTART:20210222T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:It's Just How Things Are Done UID:RFCALITEM639140734869906677 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

Sovereignty\, Order and Conflict presents \;


< b>It's Just How Things Are Done: Humanitarian Principles\, Gender\, and In formal Socialization in Aid Work


Increasing research on\nhumanitarian communities investigates how the nature of their work af fects\nhumanitarian workers’ personal lives and vice versa\, especially wi th regards to\nissues such as mental health and sexual violence. The #MeTo o movement and\nseveral public scandals have brought to light undeniable p atterns of sexual\nviolence in crisis zones perpetrated by humanitarian ai d workers\; allegations\nreveal a trend of predominantly male-identified h umanitarians perpetrating\nsexual violence against both their fellow aid w orkers and the communities they\npurport to serve. \;Why is sexual\nvi olence seemingly endemic to humanitarian communities governed by strong\np rinciples\, professional codes of conduct\, and oversight? \;

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This manuscript draws on textual analysis\, participan t\nobservation\, and in-depth interviews to argue that informal socializat ion\npractices interact with gendered and raced employment structures and “pressure\ncooker” environments to normalize certain forms of sexual haras sment\, coercion\,\nand exploitation while labeling them “how things are d one.” Specifically\, we argue\nthat social and geographic isolation\, the construction of local spaces and\npeople as “threatening\,” and the sexual ization of leisure time and mental\nhealth practices all contribute to the conditions of possibility for sexual\nharassment and assault to be normal ized and seen as “how things are done.”


Sarah Par kinson

Assistant Professor

John Hopkins University


Dr. Sarah E. Parkinson is the Aronson Assistant Professor o f Political Science and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines organizational behavior and social change in contex ts of war and disaster. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa\, Par kinson studies how actors such as military organizations\, political parti es\, and humanitarian groups cope with crisis\, disruption\, and fragmenta tion. She has conducted extensive fieldwork among Palestinian and Syrian r efugees in Lebanon as well as with humanitarian responders in Iraqi Kurdis tan.


Click here to register \;


For more information plea se contact\, Ryan Griffiths\, rgriff01@syr.edu or to request additional ac commodation arrangements\, please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.e du.

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