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On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a
mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a
school in the village of Aberfan below. It is a moment that will be
forever etched in the memories of many people in Wales and beyond.
Aberfan - Government & Disaster is widely recognised as the
definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of
public records - kept confidential by the UK Government's 30-year
rule - the authors, in this revised second edition, explain how and
why the disaster happened and why nobody was held responsible. Iain
McLean and Martin Johnes reveal how the National Coal Board, civil
servants, and government ministers, who should have protected the
public interest, and specifically the interests of the people of
Aberfan, failed to do so. The authors also consider what has been
learned or ignored from Aberfan such as the understanding of
psychological trauma and the law concerning 'corporate
manslaughter'. Aberfan - Government & Disaster is the revised
and updated second edition of Iain McLean and Martin Johnes'
acclaimed study published in 2000, which now solely focuses on
Aberfan.
This book assesses the prospects of official development
assistance (ODA) for poverty reduction. It analyzes the entire
value chain of ODA, including provision, allocation and
utilization. Within each of these components, coverage examines
scope and limits of aid. The horizontal interactions between donors
and recipients as well as the vertical connections to local and
region-specific conditions represent the heart of this book's
approach.
Outside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal exploration of the
evolution of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of
international relief. Her memoir graphically describes her
experiences as a practising psychiatrist in war zones and disasters
around the world, from the Balkans and 'mission-accomplished' Iraq,
to tsunami-affected Indonesia, post-earthquake Haiti and 'the
Jungle' in Calais. The book poses and attempts to address awkward
questions. What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you
have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? What
is it like to see all your family killed in front of you when you
are 12 years old? Is it true that almost everyone caught up in a
disaster is likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder?
What can mental health professionals do to help? How does one stay
neutral and impartial in the face of genocide? Why would a doctor
support military intervention? From her training in one of
Britain's last asylums, to treating traumatised soldiers in Gorazde
after the Bosnian war, and learning from traditional healers in
Sierra Leone, Lynne has worked with extraordinary people in
extraordinary situations. But this book is not only about
psychiatry. It also shines a light on humanitarian aid and all its
glories and problems. She shows how ill-thought-out interventions
do more harm than good and that mental well-being is deeply
connected to human rights and the social and political worlds in
which people live. It also reveals the courage and resilience of
people who have to survive and endure some of the most frightening
situations in the world.
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Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution
achievable in practice? These 8 essays mirror and expand the
complexity of contemporary discussions on cosmopolitanism and
global justice, focusing on a normative study of the global
institutional order with suggestions of direct ways to reform it.
They assess schemes of worldwide distributive justice and the
mechanisms required to discharge the global duties that the
theories establish. Assesses the workability of philosophical
conceptions of justice for the global sphere Addresses fields
including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health
care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the United
Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund and the global
responsibility of the European Union For political philosophers,
political scientists and sociologists working on the philosophy of
international relations, global ethics, global justice,
humanitarian aid and development politics
Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid
organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to
protecting the security of their personnel and assets. The
management of humanitarian security has gradually become the
business of professionals who develop data collection systems,
standardized procedures, norms, and training meant to prevent and
manage risks. A large majority of aid agencies and security experts
see these developments as inevitable -- all the more so because of
quantitative studies and media reports concluding that the dangers
to which aid workers are today exposed are completely
unprecedented. Yet, this trend towards professionalisation is also
raising questions within aid organisations, MSF included. Can
insecurity be measured by scientific means and managed through
norms and protocols? How does the professionalisation of security
affect the balance of power between field and headquarters,
volunteers and the institution that employs them? What is its
impact on the implementation of humanitarian organizations' social
mission? Are there alternatives to the prevailing security model(s)
derived from the corporate world?Building on MSF's experience and
observations of the aid world by academics and practitioners, the
authors of this book look at the drivers of the professionalization
of humanitarian security and its impact on humanitarian practices,
with a specific focus on Syria, CAR and kidnapping in the Caucasus.
As government officials and political activists are becoming
increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an
important political dimension: although not self-serving, these
private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) seek social changes of which many of their
financial contributors are unaware. As PVOs and NGOs receive
increasing subsidies from their home governments in the United
States, Canada, and Europe, they are moving away from short-term
relief commitments in developing countries and toward longer-term
goals in health, education, training, and small-scale production.
Showing that European and Canadian NGOs focus more on political
change as part of new development efforts than do their U.S.
counterparts, Brian Smith presents the first major comparative
study of the political aspect of PVOs and NGOs. Smith emphasizes
the paradoxes in the private-aid system, both in the societies that
send aid and in those that receive it. Pointing out that
international nonprofit agencies are in some instances openly
critical of nation-state interests, he asks how these agencies can
function in a foreign-aid network intended as a support for those
same interests. He concludes that compromises throughout the
private-aid networkand some secrecymake it possible for
institutions with different agendas to work together. In the
future, however, serious conflicts may develop with donors and
nation states.
Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei,
Sudan, in 2007. The newest Medicins Sans Frontieres' doctor in the
field, he arrived with only his training, full of desire to
understand this most desperate part of the world. He returned home
six months later profoundly affected by the experience. Six Months
in Sudan is an illuminating and affecting account of saving lives
in one of the most harrowing and dangerous places on Earth.
When a perfect storm of personal, professional, and natural
disaster threw Mike Mantel into a dark night of the soul, he
embarked on a journey through his own life and around the world to
rediscover God's presence through the diverse body of Christ. In
Thirsting for Living Water, Mantel invites readers to join him on
this adventure and open their eyes to their own stories of God's
faithfulness. It's an invitation to see where God is already at
work: at home, among neighbors, and to the ends of the earth. Here
is a story of the holistic gospel, driven by compassion, justice,
and mercy, with Jesus at the center. Here is an inspiring vision of
a unified, global church-in which each of us has a vital role to
play.
The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely
perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread
concern in the West. This concern reveals itself as an ambiguous
mixture of heartfelt compassion for the plight of the unfortunates
cast adrift and a diffuse fear that they will come "pouring in." In
this comprehensive study, the authors examine the refugee flows
originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and suggest how a
better understanding of this phenomenon can be used by the
international community to assist those in greatest need. Reviewing
the history of refugee movements in the West, they show how their
formation and the fate of endangered populations have also been
shaped by the partisan objectives of receiving countries. They
survey the kinds of social conflicts characteristic of different
regions of the Third World and the ways refugees and refugee policy
are made to serve broader political purposes.
For over 150 years, the Red Cross has brought succour to the
world's needy, from sick and wounded soldiers on the battlefield,
to political detainees, to those suffering the effects of natural
disasters. The world's oldest and most preeminent humanitarian
movement, the relevance and status of the Red Cross Movement today
is as high as it has ever been. Reimagining and re-evaluating the
Red Cross as a global institutional network, this volume charts the
rise of the Red Cross and analyses the emergence of humanitarianism
through a series of turning points, practices and myths. The
contributors explore the three unique elements that make up the Red
Cross Movement: the International Committee of the Red Cross, the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent formerly
known as the League of Red Cross Societies (both based in Geneva)
and the 192 national societies. With chapters by leading scholars
and researchers from Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, New
Zealand and America, the book offers a timely account of this
unique, complex and contested organisation. -- .
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This is an important and innovative book which was well-received and attracted much media attention when it appeared in hardback in 1990. It advocates a new approach to the relief of famine and hardship in developing countries by addressing the political issues that prevent fair distribution of resources, rather than by simply seeking to provide more food and services. As such this book could prove extremely influential, and, in paperback, will be more easily available to relief agencies and third world charities, as well as to students and concerned individuals. Amartya Sen, the co-author is internationally eminent - he is a former delegate and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, and he recently won the Fiat-sponsored Giovanni Agnelli Prize for promoting the understanding of ethical issues in modern society. Lengthy articles about Sen and his books have appeared in The Independent, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and the New York Review of Books, to name a few.
For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents
opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the
disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created,
religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and
industrial capital- ism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing
in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the
literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those
who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust
and noise of re- construction, the author focuses on the survivors
and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came
to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward
Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a 'natural'
disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by
manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness
arguments about the past. What was important? What should be
preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the
antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also
knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to
live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and
places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake,
knowing that things will fall apart again?
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