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We Did Nothing
By Linda Polman
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In recent years our newspapers and televisions have brought us stories of the failure of the UN to keep the peace in the modern world. How often have our journalists our politicians and charity workers turned around and accused the UN of weakness in the face of violence? During the 1990s Polman visited UN peacekeeping missions in Somalia Haiti and Rwanda to try to understand how resolutions are made and how the peace is lost. The result is this extraordinary disturbing and utterly compelling book.
We Did Nothing shows what the resolutions mean for the people who must live in these battle fields and for the UN soldiers who are sent to bring order to the terrifying chaos.
'A small classic of man's inhumanity to man' Sunday Telegraph
'One of the most affecting pieces of writing about man's inhumanity this side of Primo Levi' Guardian
'What Michael Herr's Dispatches was to war in the era of Vietnam this is to the peace keeping era of the nineties' Evening Standard
Linda Polman has been a freelance journalist for Dutch radio television and newspapers. Since the publication of her book in Holland Polman has lectured to government military and academic audiences throughout the region. She currently lives in Sierra Leone.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2004-02-05
Publication Date:
2004-02-05
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0141012900
ISBN13:
9780141012902
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Weight:
311 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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