Humanitarian aid will never resolve political conflict and I think that political decision makers in the world today when they can't get a political resolution have a tendency to put more pressure on the humanitarian players to get a conflict resolved and that's never going to work.
Smith emphasizes that humanitarian aid cannot substitute for political solutions to conflicts.
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