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In the Shadow of Just Wars - Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action (Hardcover)
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In the Shadow of Just Wars - Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action (Hardcover)
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While military intervention in Iraq was being planned, humanitarian
organizations were offered US government funds to join the
Coalition and operate under the umbrella of "Operation Iraqi
Freedom". In Kosavo, Timor, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, NGOs had
previously been asked to join in "just" wars. Indeed many aid
agencies cooperated eagerly, subordinating their specific aims to
the greater goal of "peace, democracy and human rights". Few
Afghans or Sierra Leoneans regret the interventions. However, the
inconvenient victims of these triumphs, those from the "wrong"
side, are quickly forgotten. These are individuals whom
humanitarian organizations have the duty to save, yet in doing so
they must remain independent of the warring parties, and refrain
from joining in the "struggle against evil" or any other political
agenda. Then there are places where the pretence of providing
assistance allows donor governments to disguise their backing of
local political powers. Lastly there are those whose sacrifice is
politically irrelevant in the wider scope of international
relations. In circumstances such as these, what little
international aid is available collides head-on with the mutal
desire of the adversaries to wage "total" war that may lead to the
extermination of entire populations. In this book, international
experts and members of the MSF analyse the way these issues have
crystallized over the five years spanning the end of the 20th
century and the beginning of the 21st. The authors make the case
for a renewed commitment to an old idea: a humanitarianism that
defies the politics of sacrifice.
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