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Responding to Emergencies and Fostering Development
Author | : Claire Pirotte,Bernard Husson,Francois Grunewald |
Publsiher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1999-10-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105028517493 |
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Civil wars, genocides, natural disasters and other emergencies multiplied in the 1990s, and not just in the South, but in the Balkans and the former Soviet bloc. This book examines how to respond to the fundamental difficulties thrown up by these humanitarian crises. What kind of aid, in particular, should be brought in when the situation on the ground mixes up emergency relief with the longer-term process of development? The book includes many different voices and embodies an open-ended debate about the whole diverse process of international aid. The experiences and lessons it contains are relevant to all those playing a part in, or wishing to understand, the practice and dilemmas of humanitarian aid in the 1990s.
Gender Development and Humanitarian Work
Author | : Caroline Sweetman |
Publsiher | : Oxfam |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0855984570 |
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While the difficulties of integrating gender equity goals into interventions are acknowledged, the authors argue that gender-blind responses can further endanger the survival of women and their families and their long term position in society and also deny them the opportunity of exercising their potential as peace-builders.
Poverty in Grace
Author | : David H. Kodia |
Publsiher | : Uzima Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9966855947 |
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Eroding Local Capacity
Author | : Monica Kathina Juma,Astri Suhrke |
Publsiher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9171065024 |
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Eroding Local Capacity is a critical examination of the interplay between international and local actors operating in the humanitarian arena in Africa. All sides emphasise the need to build local capacity for humanitarian action, yet the results have not been substantial. Even long-term, semi-permanent emergencies have generated little local capacity to assist and protect the victims of violence, displacement and related deprivations. In some cases, whatever local capacity did exist has been overwhelmed by the international aid presence. Why is this so? What is the case for a more even division of labour between North and South in this area, and why is it so difficult to bring about? The book focuses on cases from East Africa and the Horn. It considers institutional capacity in the public and private sector, as well as legal and social norms of humanitarian action. The authors are African and Nordic scholars who worked together on the NORAD-supported project over a 3-year period. Preliminary conclusions were discussed at seminars organized by the Centre for Foreign Relations (Dar es Salaam), the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town), and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (Bergen).
The History of Development
Author | : Gilbert Rist |
Publsiher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2002-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1842771817 |
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With all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies in both North and South. Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world. He argues persuasively that development has always been a kind of collective delusion which in reality has simply promoted a widening of market relations despite the good intentions of its advocates.
The Responsibility to Protect
Author | : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
Publsiher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0889369631 |
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Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
At Risk
Author | : Benjamin Wisner,Piers M. Blaikie,Terry Cannon,Ian Davis |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780415252164 |
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The second edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.
Disasters Without Borders
Author | : John Hannigan |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780745663111 |
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Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition the collective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book, respected Canadian environmental sociologist John Hannigan argues that the global community of nations has failed time and again in establishing an effective and binding multilateral mechanism for coping with disasters, especially in the more vulnerable countries of the South. Written in an accessible and even-handed manner, Disasters without Borders it is the first comprehensive account of the key milestones, debates, controversies and research relating to the international politics of natural disasters. Tracing the historical evolution of this policy field from its humanitarian origins in WWI right up to current efforts to cast climate change as the prime global driver of disaster risk, it highlights the ongoing mismatch between the way disaster has been conceptualised and the institutional architecture in place to manage it. The book’s bold conclusion predicts the confluence of four emerging trends - politicisation/militarisation, catastrophic scenario building, privatisation of risk, and quantification, which could create a new system of disaster management wherein 'insurance logic' will replace humanitarian concern as the guiding principle. Disasters Without Borders is an ideal introductory text for students, lecturers and practitioners in the fields of international development studies, disaster management, politics and international affairs, and environmental geography/sociology.