History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader provides a better understanding—both within and outside academia—of the multifaceted demands posed by humanitarian assistance programs. The Reader is a compilation of the most important chapters in the twelve-volume International Humanitarian Affairs book series published by Fordham University Press. Each selected chapter has been edited and updated.
In addition, the series editor, Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., has written, among other chapters, an introductory essay explaining the academic evolution of the discipline of humanitarian assistance. It focuses on the “Fordham Experience”: its Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) has developed practical programs for training fieldworkers, especially those dealing with complex emergencies following conflicts and man-made or
natural disasters.
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. HISTORY
- Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century: The Danger of a Setback
- Humanitarian Ethical and Legal Standards
- Humanitarian Vignettes
- Humanitarian Response in the Era of Global Mobile Information Technology
- PART II. PRINCIPLES/VALUES
- Neutrality or Impartiality
- Torture
- Issues of Power and Gender in Complex Emergencies
- Terrorism: Theory and Reality
- A Human Rights Agenda for Global Security
- PART III. EVOLVING NORMS
- The Limits of Sovereignty
- The Child Protection Viewpoint
- Preserving Humanitarian Space in Long-Term Conflict
- Humanitarian Action in a New Barbarian Age
- PART IV. ACTORS
- The Challenges of Preventive Diplomacy: The Role of the United Nations and Its Secretary-General
- Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters
- The Peacekeeping Prescription
- Reviving Global Civil Society After September 11
- The Academy and Humanitarian Action
- Government Responses to Foreign Policy Challenges
- Disasters and the Media
- Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination: Looking Beyond the “Latest and Greatest”
- PART V. OPERATIONAL
- Evidence-Based Health Assessment Process in Complex Emergencies
- Teamwork in Emergency Humanitarian Relief Situations
- Education as a Survival Strategy: Sixty Years of Schooling for Palestinian Refugees
- What Can Modern Society Learn from Indigenous Resiliency?
- PART VI. EXIT STRATEGIES
- To Bind Our Wounds: A One-Year Post-9/11 Address
- The Transition from Conflict to Peace
- Humanitarianism’s Age of Reason
- Healing with a Single History
- PART VII. EPILOGUE
- The Evolution of a Tropicalist
- Disturb Us, O Lord
- Appendix: the IIHA Resource Library
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- The Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs
- Index
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