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The Golden Fleece
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Description for The Golden Fleece
Hardcover. Editor(s): Donini, Antonio. Num Pages: 356 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSR; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 622.
The Golden Fleece delves into questions that are rarely asked and seldom answered. It examines the impact of manipulation on the effectiveness of humanitarian action. The tension between fundamental humanitarian values – the prioritisation of life-saving over all other considerations – and political or economic agendas is not new. Relief work has long been subject to manipulation by governments, warlords, public opinion, disembodied realpolitik, and to the calculations of humanitarians themselves. As Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire notes in his Preface, ""the sacrosanct principles of neutrality and humanitarian space have been used and abused by many in ways which ultimately benefit ... Read more
The Golden Fleece delves into questions that are rarely asked and seldom answered. It examines the impact of manipulation on the effectiveness of humanitarian action. The tension between fundamental humanitarian values – the prioritisation of life-saving over all other considerations – and political or economic agendas is not new. Relief work has long been subject to manipulation by governments, warlords, public opinion, disembodied realpolitik, and to the calculations of humanitarians themselves. As Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire notes in his Preface, ""the sacrosanct principles of neutrality and humanitarian space have been used and abused by many in ways which ultimately benefit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Kumarian Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
West Hartford, CT, United States
ISBN
9781565494879
SKU
V9781565494879
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Ref
99-3
About
Antonio Donini is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies. From 1999 to the summer of 2002 he was the director of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan and Deputy UN Humanitarian Coordinator.
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