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Author | : Francis M. Deng |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0815719744 |
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For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has caused widespread human suffering. The Sudan illustrates the proverbial worst-case scenario in which urgent food needs have been denied, food has been used as a weapon, and outside assistance has been obstructed. The Challenges of Famine Relief focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s—the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis Deng and Larry Minear analyze the historical and political setting and the response by Sudan authorities and the international community. The book outlines four problem areas exemplified in the response to each crisis: the external nature of famine relief, the relationship between relief activities and endemic problems, the coordination of such activities, and the ambivalence of the results. The authors identify the many difficulties inherent in providing emergency relief to populations caught in circumstances of life-threatening famine. They show how such famine emergencies reflect the most extreme breakdown of social order and present the most compelling imperatives for international action. Deng and Minear also discuss how the international community, alerted by the media and mobilized by the Ethiopian famine, moved to fill the moral void left by the government and how outside organizations worked together to pressure Sudan's political authorities to be more responsive to these tragedies. Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order. As recent developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union demonstrate, such humanitarian challenges of global dimensions are no longer confined to third world countries. As the international community apportions limited resources among a growing number of such challenges, more effective responses to crises such as those described in this book are imperative.
Author | : Francis Mading Deng |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The Challenges of Famine Relief focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s - the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91.
Author | : John Osgood Field |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander De Waal |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253211583 |
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Who is responsible for the failures? African generals and politicians are the prime culprits for creating famines in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire, but western donors abet their authoritarianism, partly through imposing structural adjustment programmes.
Author | : Arline Tartus Golkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780941690218 |
Download Famine, a Heritage of Hunger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Feseha Kassa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Famine Relief and Development Problems in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benjamin M. Weissman |
Publisher | : Hoover Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1974-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780817913434 |
Download Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1921 one of the most devastating famines in history threatened the lives of millions of Russians as well as the continuance of Soviet rule. Responding to a plea for help from the Soviet government, the American Relief Administration (ARA) agreed to provide famine relief in the stricken areas. The ARA was a private relief organization headed by Herbert Hoover, then U.S. secretary of commerce and one of the best-known Americans of his time for his spectacular success in rescuing the population of Belgium from starvation during World War I and in feeding millions of Europeans during the Armistice. Hoover was also a retired capitalist of considerable wealth, a champion of Republican liberalism, and a leading opponent of recognition of Soviet Russia. Lenin—head of the Soviet government, leader of the Bolshevik party, and living symbol of world revolution—was the antithesis of the ARA's chief. This book studies the personalities, motives, and modi operandi of these two celebrated figures, both as individuals and as representatives of their societies. At the same time it considers the relief mission itself, which has been the subject of continuing controversy for fifty years. Its partisans see it as a charitable, nonpolitical enterprise, while its enemies judge it an anti-Soviet intervention entirely devoid of humanitarian purpose. Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief for Soviet Russia is the first major attempt by an American scholar to reexamine the ARA mission, on the basis of much material made available since the ARA's 1927 official history. What emerges is, on the one hand, a painstaking examination of the historical details of ARA's mission and, on the other hand, a philosophic essay relating the ARA to broader questions of U.S.-Soviet relations the ideological antitheses of Hoover and Lenin. The author concludes that both sides overcame their ideological antagonisms and made possible a spectacularly successful relief mission that inspired the vain hope that a new era in Soviet-American relations had begun.
Author | : Norbert Götz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108493521 |
Download Humanitarianism in the Modern World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Author | : Stephan Haggard |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0231140002 |
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"In their carefully researched book, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland present the most comprehensive account of the famine to date, examining not only the origins and aftermath of the crisis but also the regime's response to outside aid and the effect of its current policies on the country's economic future. Their study begins by considering the root causes of the famine, weighing the effects of the decline in the availability of food against its poor distribution. Then it takes a close look at the aid effort, addressing the difficulty of monitoring assistance within the country, and concludes with an analysis of current economic reforms and strategies of engagement."--BOOK JACKET.