The need to ‘disaster proof’ development is increasingly recognised by development agencies, as is the need to engender both development and disaster response. This unique book explores what these processes mean for development and disasters in practice. Sarah Bradshaw critica…
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Controversieel boek van de ontwikkelingseconoom, waarin de opkomst beschreven wordt van 'de tirannie van de experts': experts die de rol van ambtenaren en technocraten innemen om zonder aanzien des persoons een land hun politieke ideologie op te leggen. De vraag naar economische…
"Another Day in Paradise' is an anthology of first-person stories by international aid workers. Written by active aid workers and spanning the 'hot spots' of the globe from Afghanistan to Vietnama, these stories tell it like it really is 'on the ground."
'Another Day in Paradise' is an anthology of first-person stories by international aid workers. Written by active aid workers and spanning the 'hot spots' of the globe from Afghanistan to Vietnama, these stories tell it like it really is 'on the ground'.
Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis an…
The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups that founded the movement …