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The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?

Door Linda Polman

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#323865-XC5
Titel	The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?
Auteur	Polman, Linda
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Henry Holt & Company
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	0805092900
ISBN13	9780805092905
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, ribbon marker, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A no-holds-barred, controversial exposé of the financial profiteering and ambiguous ethics that pervade the world of humanitarian aid A vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid: a cavalcade of organizations? some 37,000? compete for a share of the $160 billion annual prize, with "fact-inflation" sometimes ramping up disaster coverage to draw in more funds. Insurgents and warring governments, meanwhile, have made aid a permanent feature of military strategy: refugee camps serve as base camps for genocidaires, and aid supplies are diverted to feed the troops. Even as humanitarian groups continue to assert the holy principle of impartiality, they have increasingly become participants in aid's abuses. In a narrative that is impassioned, gripping, and even darkl... (Lees verder)y absurd, journalist Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe? from the NGO-dense operations in "Afghaniscam" to the floating clinics of Texas Mercy Ships proselytizing off the shores of West Africa? to show the often compromised results of aid workers' best intentions. It is time, Polman argues, to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing something is always better than doing nothing, and to hold humanitarians responsible for the consequences of their deeds.
Pagina's	229
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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