When examining areas of conflict around the world, Dr. Andrew Campbell of Bellevue, NE often looks to NGO organizations as key players in the restoration of cultures. NGOs — non-government organizations — seek to alleviate the suffering of all human beings wherever they may be. Non-government organizations are normally funded by donations and primarily run by volunteers around the world at their humanitarian efforts.

Global

NGOs are global cooperatives and non-profit organizations. Regardless of where they are headquartered, NGOs attract a highly diverse workforce of altruistically driven volunteers.

This diversity not only grants NGOs more opportunity to reach suffering people in all corners of the world, it also helps NGOs embrace different cultures, religions, and ethnicities. The global focus of NGOs helps them cross borders in more ways than one.

Humanitarian Mission

Andrew H Campbell of Bellevue, Nebraska notes that NGOs are motivated to address pain and suffering wherever they find it. That said, most NGOs focused on a specific mission, such as poverty or environmental sustainability. Or, they may target a region, country, or community and seek to meet as many needs as possible within their area of operations.

While NGOs do not work for governments, they frequently seek financial aid from countries that wish to contribute to their humanitarian mission worldwide.

NGO personnel are able to access areas of the world that national or UN groups cannot. They take full advantage of that access in order to protect and nurture all life. This includes caring for plants/animals, providing medical aid to the injured/sick, distributing food and clean water, educating the population, and even constructing homes and community centers.

Essentially, anything that improves the quality of life for those suffering falls on the radar of NGOs. Some NGOs are so serious about their mission that they enter unsafe parts of the world to deliver aid.

Strict Neutrality

One critical rule of NGOs is that no representative carry a weapon or work alongside any armed group. Further, NGOs claim no allegiance to any government organization. This strict neutrality not only grants NGOs access to parts of the world that government-sponsored groups may not enter, it also keeps NGO personnel safe from war and violence between combatting groups and nations.

NGOs typically decline armed transport, and they are determined never to share information to a government organization. Their mission depends largely upon their ability to not be seen as working for someone else.

The neutrality approach of NGOs has worked in many areas that are deemed extremely unsafe. These people are able to get in and out of violent and needy areas like Syria and Afghanistan. Both sides of open conflict find that they can trust NGOs to do their work without having to worry that they might be working for the other side.

Andrew H Campbell of Bellevue, Nebraska concludes that the role of NGOs in peacekeeping is an important aspect because of their efforts to promote social, political, and environmental changes around the world.

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