In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia
Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the
Democratic Republic of Congo-young people who live on the front
lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war,
and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution.
Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights
investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal
journey, which begins with the will to do good yet ends with the
realization of how international aid can contribute to greater harm
than good. The idea of protection and universalized human rights is
turned on its head as Seymour uncovers the complicities and
hypocrisies of the aid world. In the promotion of "inalienable
human rights," aid organizations ignore the complex historical and
socioeconomic dynamics that lead to the violations of such rights.
Offering a new perspective, The Myth of International Protection
reframes how the world sees the DRC and urges global audiences to
consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's seemingly endless
violence.
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