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Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe 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. --from publisher description
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Humanitarian assistance, Disaster reliefShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The crisis caravan: what's wrong with humanitarian aid?
2010, Metropolitan Books
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
0805092900 9780805092905
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Table of Contents
Goma: a "total ethical disaster"
Contract fever
MONGOs
Donor darlings
Aid as a weapon of war
Refugee warriors
The hunger weapon
When recipients call the shots
Afghaniscam
The logic of the humanitarian era
Afterword: Ask them questions.
Edition Notes
"First English edition published in the United Kingdom in 2010 under the title War games by Viking, London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index.
Translation of: De crisiskaravaan.
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