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Aid in danger : the perils and promise of humanitarianism / Larissa Fast.
LIBRA HV553 .F3717 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fast, Larisa, author.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Risk management.
- Violence.
- Security, International.
- Physical Description:
- 326 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Three stories of aid in danger : from Baghdad and Muttur to Solferino
- The twin challenges for contemporary humanitarianism
- The dangers they face : understanding violence against aid workers and agencies
- The dominant explanations : competing discourses of aid
- Explanations in the shadows : competing images of aid
- Coping with danger : paradigms of humanitarian security management
- Conclusion. reclaiming humanity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812246032
- 0812246039
- OCLC:
- 859745427
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