War Relief Work
Author | : American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hugo Slim |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-01-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190613327 |
Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.
Author | : Tony Vaux |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781849774307 |
Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical action and difficult choices - whom to help and how. Their own feelings have to motivate action for others. But can they separate out their own selfish feelings and prejudices in such an emotive climat.
Author | : Bruno Cabanes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110702062X |
Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
Author | : United States. President's War Relief Control Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Women's National War Relief Association |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781374347229 |
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Author | : Linda Polman |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-04-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0670919772 |
From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this brilliantly written and at times blackly funny work of reportage shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over are locked in a cycle of mutual support. Drawing on her decades of first-hand experience, Linda Polman�s gripping narrative introduces us to the key players in this twisted game, to the aid-workers and the warlords themselves. Among many others, there is the Bible-bashing one-man NGO who rescued two Sierra Leonean girls from life in an amputee camp � only to change his mind and try to send them back again; the director of the World Bank in Kabul who estimates that 35�40 per cent of all aid in Afghanistan is looted or lost; and the rebel soldier who explains that war does not mean fighting: 'W.A.R. means Waste All Resources. Destroy everything. Then you people will come and fix it.' War Games is a controversial expos� from the front lines of the humanitarian aid industry by one of the most intrepid and brilliantly incisive journalists of our times.
Author | : George H. Nash |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0817912363 |
Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and policies during the war, as well as an examination of the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists.
Author | : Fiona Terry |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801468647 |
Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand. Terry was the head of the French section of Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire because aid intended for refugees actually strengthened those responsible for perpetrating genocide. This book contains documents from the former Rwandan army and government that were found in the refugee camps after they were attacked in late 1996. This material illustrates how combatants manipulate humanitarian action to their benefit. Condemned to Repeat? makes clear that the paradox of aid demands immediate attention by organizations and governments around the world. The author stresses that, if international agencies are to meet the needs of populations in crisis, their organizational behavior must adjust to the wider political and socioeconomic contexts in which aid occurs.