How Are Responses To Disasters Shaped By The Bureaucratic Structures Of Humanitarian Institutions?

Accident, be it natural or man made, are communal these days. It is not that in human history that disasters never happened but the red-brick world is a close contact global village and with willingness whatever country is able to help the other in peril. However, at that place are several clauses attached to it along with strings that are attached to world-wide politics. As a result, it should be taken into account that any exercise taken against any incident of disaster follows the path of evaluation and abstract on the parameters of bureaucratic judgments and willingness.It should also be taken into account this bureaucratic evaluation of the incident is subjected to the political scenario in long or in short run. Furthermore, it is also to be considered that all the humanitarian institutions responsible for the bringing of attend to to the disaster stricken area would ultimately be depended on the willingness of the bureaucratic organization. The bureaucratic formatio n work strictly on the principals of advantages and advantage of the doing thus attention becomes relatively more obvious in areas of vested occupy than the areas that are not directly linked up with the interest of the bureaucratic scheme. Olsen, 16)It is true that the Western Society has proved to be the almost powerful in terms of finance and resource in the modern era and thus it is the call of the Western world that determines the severity of a disaster in a given situation and the measuring of guardianship that should be granted as a residuum. It is obvious that the bureaucratic system is the most instrumental part in this entire scenario of politics of aid and thus all the humanitarian institutes are in alignment with this system.The tie between the bureaucratic system and and the humanitarian institutes are also revealed in the local perception of aid or relief during a disaster. If the Tsunami of the Indian Ocean is taken into account it would be clear that in the island of Sri Lanka it was order that such bureaucratic discrimination in the parameters of race abd religion was winning place. Here the bureaucratic system was playing in the hands of the governance formed by the help of the majority consisting of the state of the Sinhalese language.This bureaucratic system then influenced the humanitarian institutions to offer major part of the relief to the Sinhalese population rather than the Tamil population of the northern split of the island. (Walker, 5) The example of Sri Lanka and the relief discrimination between the Sinhalese and the Tamil population could be regarded as a classic example of bureaucratic system induced humanitarian misuse or under use of the aid. In conclusion it should be mentioned that there are several examples that point towards appropriate distribution of aid during the time of disaster by institutions like salvation Army and the Red Cross.However, the point that should not be missed is that the action taken during a disaster is an emergency and is purely based on humanitarian grounds thus the equal and proper distribution of aid and relief should always be one hundred per cent and there should not be any bureaucratic influence to state otherwise. As a human being this is the minimum requirement and the maximum amount of resource should be employed to attain the goal.