Frontline Diplomacy: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict in Africa

✍ Scribed by John Prendergast

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 176
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Prendergast investigates the negative impacts of humanitarian aid in conflict situations and explores how these can be minimized and how aid might instead contribute to conflict prevention and peace building.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acronyms
Map of Africa
1 The Context of Aid in Complex Emergencies: The Seven Deadly Sins
2 Good Intentions on the Road to Hell
3 Providing Aid Without Sustaining Conflict, Part One: Principles and Codes of Conduct
4 Providing Aid Without Sustaining Conflict, Part Two: Ten Commandments
5 Humanitarian Aid, Conflict Prevention, and Peace Building
6 Carrot-and-Stick Humanitarianism: Aid Conditions for Peace
Concluding Thoughts
Notes
Index
About the Book

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