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Reflections on Humanitarian Action [PDF ebook] 
Principles, Ethics and Contradictions

Humanitarian action has become a subject for serious debate in light of recent conflicts across the globe. The debacle in Somalia, the policy of intervention in Bosnia, and domestic conflicts in the West over intervention in Kosovo have given rise to many complex questions surrounding humanitarian action. The contributors to this volume provide a systematic overview of the issues involved from a wide range of viewpoints.



The book examines the central problems of humanitarian action: the judicial question and the right to humanitarian assistance; the ethical framework of humanitarian action; the challenge of coordination of all the actors involved in humanitarian action; the recipients in the aid chain; the link between aid, development and emergency action; the role of the media; and a practical evaluation of Operation Lifeline Sudan.

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Abbreviations and Acronyms



Introduction



Humanitarian Studies Unit



1. The Role of Humanitarian Issues in International Politics in the 1990s

Adam Roberts



2. The Right to Humanitarian Aid: Basis and Limitations

Joana Abrisketa



3. The Ethical Framework of Humanitarian Action

Xabier Etxeberría



4. The Complex Nature of Actors in Humanitarian Action and the Challenge of Co-Ordination

Francisco Rey



5. Subalterns on the Aid Chain

David Sogge



6. Relief, Development and Humanitarian Intervention

Joanne Raisin and Alexander Ramsbotham



7. The Media and the Humanitarian Spectacle

Mariano Aguirre



8. Chronicle of Ajiep, Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan, 1998

Médecins Sans Frontières



Contributors



Index

O autorze

Adam Roberts is a Professor at Oxford University. Xabier Etxeberria is a theorist. David Sogge is the author of Structurally Adjusted Africa. Alexander Ramsbotham is a senior member of Peace Studies in Bradford. Marraino Aguirre is a long time and senior member of TNI who runs his own publishing and his own peace organisation.