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This 12 page report discusses non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations, paying special attention to the United Nations and The International Committee of the Red Cross. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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organization. Without any attempt to project a "we-are-the-world" sense of humanitarian efforts, the simple fact remains that the best efforts to serve people in need are coordinated, multi-faceted, and
multi-organizational efforts. Not surprisingly, such a statement is fundamentally easier to agree upon than it is to act upon. All organizations have some certain level of competition and
turf-building as part of their collective organizational consciousness. Generally, each is convinced that it has a better grasp of a particular topic or problem than another "similar" group.
Each is in competition with the others for private funding, government response, and public support. And yet, by working as a aggregate, such organizations are often able to exceed
even their wildest expectations of service and assistance. It is na?ve of any government official, charity administrator, social activist, or humanitarian to believe that he or she (or their organization)
can handle a problem better on their own than they could with the assistance and support of like-minded people in other organizations with mutually complimentary goals. Theoretically, the purpose
motivating each is the same and that is to do what is possible to lessen pain. It doesnt matter if the pain is mental, physical, or emotional - the
pain of cancer, war, abuse, hunger, natural disaster, exceeds all else and it is, at its core, human pain. According to Clark (1995), NGO influence
has grown in recent years precisely because they are different from states. First, NGOs focus on single issues or sets of issues to the exclusion of others, while states must
perform many functions, with national security as a top priority. The organizational mandate of Amnesty International, for example, commits it to an exclusive focus on promoting the Universal Declaration of
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