"The International Committee of the Red Cross? Jürg Montani highlights the need for medium-term thinking to complement immediate humanitarian action in the context of Myanmar?s ongoing conflicts. In 2016 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) marked its 30th anniversary in Myanmar. This ongoing engagement reflects both humanitarian needs created by long-running violence and insecurity in this Southeast Asian nation, and the reality that the ICRC faces in many long wars where emergency relief and development assistance must be provided concurrently, not sequentially. Humanitarians can ? and do ? respond to long-term humanitarian needs alongside more urgent needs, in the same neutral and impartial way that relief assistance is provided. But the tendency remains to view humanitarian action as ?emergency? responses, and long-term activities as ?development work?. This is despite the fact that long-term action can certainly be considered humanitarian when it addresses structures that threaten human survival..."