Crisis Caravan What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?

Name: Crisis Caravan What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
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ISBN: 9780312610586

ISBN-10: 0312610580

ISBN-13: 9780312610586

Edition: 2010

Authors: Linda Polman

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In her controversial, no-holds-barred expose Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravantakes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid operations and the humanitarian world have become a feature of military strategy. Impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman "gives some powerful examples of unconscionable assistance...a world where aid workers have become enablers of the atrocities they seek to relieve" ( The Boston Globe).

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 8/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Linda Polman is the author of We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When the UN Goes In. She studied at the School of Journalism in Utrecht and for the past twenty years has been a freelance journalist for Dutch radio, TV and newspapers.



Introduction



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


Aidspeak


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index