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Because of several reasons, external pressures on the ICRC have increased dramatically over time. Humanitarian work has become a business with a market which includes hostages, refugees, criminal competitors, etc. The ICRC is now confronted with a more fractured environment comprised of different splinter groups which has made its work more complex.
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See in a similar way also Hopgood (2006), p. ix.
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Hopgood, S. (2006). Keepers of the flame. Understanding Amnesty International. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
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Müller-Stewens, G., Dinh, T., Hartmann, B., Eppler, M.J., Bünzli, F. (2019). Managerial Implications. In: The Professionalization of Humanitarian Organizations. SpringerBriefs in Business(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03248-7_5
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