The Operational Medicine Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2012 Mar;6(1):53-9. doi: 10.1001/dmp.2012.5.
Disaster diplomacy is an evolving contemporary model that examines how disaster response strategies can facilitate cooperation between parties in conflict. The concept of disaster diplomacy has emerged during the past decade to address how disaster response can be leveraged to promote peace, facilitate communication, promote human rights, and strengthen intercommunity ties in the increasingly multipolar modern world. Historically, the concept has evolved through two camps, one that focuses on the interactions between national governments in conflict and another that emphasizes the grassroots movements that can promote change. The two divergent approaches can be reconciled and disaster diplomacy further matured by contextualizing the concept within the disaster cycle, a model well established within the disaster risk management community. In particular, access to available health care, especially for the most vulnerable populations, may need to be negotiated. As such, disaster response professionals, including emergency medicine specialists, can play an important role in the development and implementation of disaster diplomacy concepts.
灾难外交是一种不断发展的当代模式，它研究了灾难应对策略如何促进冲突各方之间的合作。灾难外交的概念是在过去十年中出现的，旨在探讨如何利用灾难应对来促进和平、促进沟通、促进人权，并在日益多极化的现代世界中加强社区间的联系。从历史上看，这一概念经历了两个阵营的发展，一个专注于冲突中国家政府之间的互动，另一个强调可以促进变革的基层运动。通过将这一概念置于灾害周期的背景下，可以调和这两种截然不同的方法，并进一步完善灾害外交，这一概念在灾害风险管理界已经得到很好的建立。特别是，需要对可获得的医疗保健进行协商，特别是对最脆弱人群的医疗保健。因此，灾难应对专业人员，包括急诊医学专家，可以在制定和实施灾难外交概念方面发挥重要作用。
