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Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action
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Description for Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action
Paperback. This is a comparative study of French versus British approaches to aid. Editor(s): Martin, Boris; Blanchet, Karl. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JKSR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 159 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216.
In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is because these French doctors - first and foremost Medecins Sans Frontieres and its 'little sister' Medecins du Monde - have created a style of humanitarian action that combines intervention in crises with critical assessment of and commentary on the human tragedies -- wars, famines, earthquakes -- in which they find themselves involved. The humanitarian practices we are familiar with today were devised, ... Read more
In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is because these French doctors - first and foremost Medecins Sans Frontieres and its 'little sister' Medecins du Monde - have created a style of humanitarian action that combines intervention in crises with critical assessment of and commentary on the human tragedies -- wars, famines, earthquakes -- in which they find themselves involved. The humanitarian practices we are familiar with today were devised, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849041423
SKU
V9781849041423
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Ref
99-5
About Blanchet
Karl Blanchet is a research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Boris Martin is Editor of the French journal Humanitaire, published by Medecins du Monde- France. He is also an independent publisher and author.
Reviews for Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action
'The idea of contrasting French and British approaches to humanitarian action and simultaneously questioning the adequacy of a simple dichotomy between the two is worthwhile. Key issues - about the nature of humanitarianism, the relationships between humanitarianism and development, the questions of independence and neutrality - are discussed in novel ways and the differing assumptions of the authors force readers ... Read more