Humanitarian Challenges And Intervention: World Politics And The Dilemmas Of Help - Softcover

Weiss, Thomas G; Collins, Cindy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813328454 ISBN 13: 9780813328454

Publisher: Westview Press, 1996

Synopsis

There are two distinct contemporary challenges to the relief of war-induced human suffering: one that occurs within the institutions that make up the international humanitarian system, the other in war zones. Varied interests, resources, and organizational structures within institutions hamper the efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian operations. At the same time—on the ground—ethical, legal, and operational challenges and dilemmas continually arise that require humanitarian actors to choose a course of action with associated necessary evils. Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention shows how institutional concerns—combined with the domestic context of armed conflicts—often yield policies that do not serve the immediate requirements of victims for relief, stabilization, and community reconstruction. Based on case studies of the post–Cold War experience in Central America, northern Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the authors make recommendations for a more effective and efficient humanitarian system.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he is also one of the directors of the UN Intellectual History Project and one of the editors of Global Governance .

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0813328454
• ISBN 13: 9780813328454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256