Humanitarians At War

Author : Gerald Steinacher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198704935

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Humanitarians at War by Gerald Steinacher Pdf

"Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was desperatel to salvage its reputation. ... The organization emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. But it did so while defending former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials and issuing travel papers to many of Hitler's former henchmen. ... In spite all of this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs..."-- Book jacket.

Author : Bruno Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020627

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The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 by Bruno Cabanes Pdf

Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.

Author : Joy Damousi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108833905

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The Humanitarians by Joy Damousi Pdf

A longitudinal study spanning six decades to map the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.

Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190613327

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Humanitarian Ethics by Hugo Slim Pdf

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 : Robert C. DiPrizio
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0801870674

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Armed Humanitarians by Robert C. DiPrizio Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War, the US military has found itself embroiled in many "operations other than war" - most controversially, in humanitarian interventions. DiPrizio examines the factors that lay behind decisions to send in troops, analyzing the decision-making process and its constraints.

Author : Gilles Carbonnier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190613402

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Humanitarian Economics by Gilles Carbonnier Pdf

While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it matters. Among the issues he discusses are: how are emotions and altruism incorporated within a rational-choice framework? How do the economics of war and terrorism inform humanitarians' negotiations with combatants, and shed light on the role of aid in conflict? What do catastrophe bonds and risk-linked securities hold for disaster response? As more actors enter the humanitarian marketplace (including private firms), Carbonnier's revealing portrayal is especially timely, as is his critique of the transformative power of crises.

Author : David P. Forsythe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139446320

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The Humanitarians by David P. Forsythe Pdf

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.

Author : Jaclyn Granick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495028

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International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War by Jaclyn Granick Pdf

The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.

Author : Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489113

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In the Shadow of 'just Wars' by Médecins sans frontières (Association) Pdf

Essays written by scholars, journalists and humanitarian relief workers look at humanitarian crises of the past five years for their successes and failures, and suggest that humanitarian action has often failed to live up to its ideals. These essays expose the shortcomings of the various humanitarian organizations, particularly the U.N., and illuminate the complex moral and political debate that surrounds even the most basic relief operations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004431140

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Humanitarianism: Keywords by Anonim Pdf

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary.

Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911723308

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Solferino 21 by Hugo Slim Pdf

War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving fast--'big aid' demands more and more money, while aid workers try to digitalise, preparing to meet ever-broader needs in the long, big wars and climate crisis of the future. This book draws on the founding moment of the modern Red Cross movement--the 1859 Battle of Solferino, a moment of great change in the nature of conflict--to track the big shifts already underway, and still to come, in the wars and war aid of our century. Hugo Slim first surveys the current landscape: the tech, politics, law and strategy of warfare, and the long-term transformations ahead as conflict goes digital. He then explains how civilians both suffer and survive in today's wars, and how their world is changing. Finally, he critiques today's humanitarian system, citing the challenges of the 2020s. Inspired by Henri Dunant's seminal humanitarian text, 'Solferino 21' alerts policymakers to the coming shakeup of the military and aid professions, illuminating key priorities for the new century. Humanitarians, he warns, must adapt or fail.

Author : Eric A. Heinze
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791477083

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Waging Humanitarian War by Eric A. Heinze Pdf

How severe must human suffering be before military intervention is considered? Can there be commensurate legal grounding for such an argument? Which actors are the most appropriate agents of intervention? In this reasonable and straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples, including the 1999 Kosovo intervention, the 2003 Iraq war, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The result is a more theoretically consistent—and therefore more practically workable—approach to humanitarian intervention.

Author : Larry Minear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Humanitarianism
ISBN : 0429039972

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Mercy Under Fire by Larry Minear Pdf

Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Humanitarian assistance
ISBN : 178738683X

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Solferino 21 by Hugo Slim Pdf

Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare and a renewed risk of 'big war' between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as 'big aid' demands more and more money and tries to digitalise and prepare for new needs in long wars and escalating climate crisis. This book starts with the founding moment of modern of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and tracks the big changes in war and humanitarian response in our own times. Organised in three parts, it assesses twenty first century experience of warfare, civilians and humanitarians and looks at where they are heading in the next ten years. It examines the nature of warfare in the century so far and how it is now being transformed by digitalisation. It explains how civilians suffer and survive in wars today and how "digital civilians" will be central in wars to come. Finally, it looks at today's big humanitarian agencies and how their world is changing too. Inspired by Henri Dunant's seminal humanitarian text, completed 160 years ago in 1862, Hugo Slim alerts military and humanitarian policymakers alike to the big changes underway in their professions and points to key areas where they must adapt or fail.

Author : Nathan Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608194452

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Armed Humanitarians by Nathan Hodge Pdf

In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. But while we won the war, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our failure prompted a fundamental change in our foreign policy. Confronted with the shortcomings of "shock and awe," the U.S. military shifted its focus to "stability operations": counterinsurgency and the rebuilding of failed states. In less than a decade, foreign assistance has become militarized; humanitarianism has been armed. Combining recent history and firsthand reporting, Armed Humanitarians traces how the concepts of nation-building came into vogue, and how, evangelized through think tanks, government seminars, and the press, this new doctrine took root inside the Pentagon and the State Department. Following this extraordinary experiment in armed social work as it plays out from Afghanistan and Iraq to Africa and Haiti, Nathan Hodge exposes the difficulties of translating these ambitious new theories into action. Ultimately seeing this new era in foreign relations as a noble but flawed experiment, he shows how armed humanitarianism strains our resources, deepens our reliance on outsourcing and private contractors, and leads to perceptions of a new imperialism, arguably a major factor in any number of new conflicts around the world. As we attempt to build nations, we may in fact be weakening our own. Nathan Hodge is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who specializes in defense and national security. He has reported from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, and a number of other countries in the Middle East and former Soviet Union. He is the author, with Sharon Weinberger, of A Nuclear Family Vacation, and his work has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and many other newspapers and magazines.