Responding to Emergencies and Fostering Development: The Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid Pirotte Claire
Responding to Emergencies and Fostering Development: The Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid Pirotte Claire Civil wars, genocides, natural disasters and other emergencies multiplied in the 1990s, and not…
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Responding to Emergencies and Fostering Development: The Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid Pirotte Claire
Civil wars, genocides, natural disasters and other emergencies multiplied in the 1990s, and not just in the South, but in the Balkans and the former Soviet bloc. It brings together thinkers from many of the leading emergency relief and development agencies as they try to learn from their own experiences and develop a shared understanding of how to act more effectively in future. This book is about how to respond to the fundamental difficulties thrown up by these humanitarian crises.
But this approach, although necessary, is not enough. What kind of aid, in particular, should be brought in when the situation on the ground mixes up emergency relief with the longer-term process of development?One response, of course, is to get the specialist agencies of both kinds to work more closely together. The situations encountered in the field demand a new understanding of what such crises