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The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance
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Description
Featuring twelve original essays by leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars, the book is a state of the field report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in today's world.
With contributions from such authorities as Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Charles McCormick, CEO of Save the Children, and physicians, military leaders, field workers, and others, the essays
confront the most critical issues facing the delivery of effective relief.
The issues include military and civilian cooperation in large-scale disasters, with special attention to the growth of private armies. How traditional nongovernmental organizations and faith-based agencies adapt to new
challenges is also explored. Ways to strengthen security for humanitarian workers, refugees, and internally displaced persons and those in transition after wars are also considered.
Bringing together diplomatic, military, medical, legal, political, religious, and ethical perspectives from experiences in Darfur, West Africa, Iraq, Pakistan, and other areas, the essays offer an authoritative inventory of where humanitarian relief has been, and how it must change to save lives and communities in peril.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2007-04-01
Publication Date:
2007-04-15
Publisher:
Fordham University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0823227162
ISBN13:
9780823227167
Weight:
449 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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