Suffering and charity have a long history. Both human sorrows and
attempted remedies were familiar features of life in earlier eras
and religious traditions, however, during the final decades of the
twentieth century, natural disasters and civilian casualties of war
transformed into "humanitarian crises." In these recurring dramas
presented by international media, an extensive network of
interstate entities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
supplies assistance to victims. The contemporary aid world is a
mosaic of aid sectors, each skewed slightly toward a particular
aspect of need and action. The development sector focuses on
alleviating poverty, while the human rights sector aims to rectify
identifiable wrongs. Humanitarianism directly addresses physical
and psychological suffering. The contributors to Forces of
Compassion examine this sector through the lens of anthropology,
looking at dominant practices, tensions, and beliefs.
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