Pursing the Mandate in Nigeria: International Committee of the Red Cross and Its Challenges, 1967-2007
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Abstract
While regarded as one of the best performing humanitarian agencies in the world today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)has continued to face various obstacles and challenges in the pursuit of its mandate in the field in both conflict situation and peace time operations. The magnitude of such challenges has provoked calls for reforms in the ICRC in order to make it more functional and effective in the face of the dynamic nature of conflicts and humanitarian operations of the 21st century. This paper therefore examines the challenges facing the ICRC and in particular, in Nigeria from 1967 to 2007. The choice of 1967 as the commencement date stems from the fact that the year marked the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War and the involvement of the ICRC in relief operations in the country, while 2007 marked the end of General OlusegunObasanjo’s term as Nigeria’s president, a period marked by tensions in various parts of the country resulting from the restiveness in the Niger/Delta, ethno-regions crisis in the North and communal crisis in the southwest and southeast Key words: Humanitarian; Challenges; Operations; Relief; Displaced; Supplies Resume Alors ce dernier est considere comme l'une des agences les plus performantes humanitaire dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, le Comite international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) a continue de faire face a divers obstacles et les defis dans la poursuite de son mandat dans le domaine a la fois en situation de conflit et les operations en temps de paix. L'ampleur de ces defis a provoque des appels a des reformes dans le CICR en vue de le rendre plus fonctionnel et efficace dans le visage de la nature dynamique des conflits et des operations humanitaires du 21eme siecle. Ce document examine donc les defis auxquels le CICR et, en particulier, au Nigeria de 1967 a 2007. Le choix de 1967 comme la date de commencement provient du fait que l'annee a marque le debut de la guerre civile nigeriane et l'implication du CICR dans les operations de secours dans le pays, tandis que 2007 a marque la fin du mandat general Olusegun Obasanjo en tant que president du Nigeria, une periode marquee par des tensions dans differentes parties du pays resultant de l'enervement dans la crise du Niger / Delta, ethno-regions dans la crise du Nord et communales dans le sud-ouest et sud-est. Mots cles : Humanitaire; Defis; Les operations; Du secours; Deplacees; Fournitures
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".