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The strategy of militarized aid in Afghanistan is failing to help the Afghani people says a new policy paper from eight nonprofit groups who have worked in the country for almost 50 years, including Oxfam International and Actionaid.  “The overemphasis on military issues at the expense of efforts to promote

Hours after the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, both the U.S. military and American and international NGO community were en route to the island country with urgently needed food, water and medical supplies. The crisis in Haiti serves as an example of how disaster relief missions often bring military and NGOs actors together. To improve cooperation with NGOs working in humanitarian relief operations and to establish “social, economic, and political domestic order in the short-term, and in the longer term… conditions for a sustainable peace,” the Department of Defense published the Guide to Nongovernmental Organizations for the Military: A primer for the military about private, voluntary, and nongovernmental organizations operating in humanitarian emergencies globally (Guide) in July 2009. 

“Religiously conservative Muslim-Americans are just as vehement in denouncing violence,” says a January 2010 research project finding “Muslim-American communities strongly reject radical jihadi ideology.” Analyzing the scope of terrorist violence by Muslim-Americans since 9/11 and the campaign of “positive steps that help prevent radicalization within their communities,” a trio of North Carolina state professors concluded the number of radicalized Muslim-Americans in the United States remains small. The authors recommend the government augment the activities already taking place in Muslim-American communities that reduce the threat of domestic terrorists.