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OverviewTimely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Drawing on firsthand reporting from war zones around the world, David Rieff shows us what aid workers do in the field and the growing gap between their noble ambitions and their actual capabilities for alleviating suffering. He describes how many humanitarian organizations have moved from their founding principle of neutrality, which gave them access to victims, to encouraging the international community to take action to stop civil wars and ethnic cleansing. By calling for intervention, humanitarian organizations risk being seen as taking sides in a conflict and thus jeopardizing their access to victims. And by overreaching, the humanitarian movement has allowed itself to be hijacked by the major powers. Rieff concludes that if humanitarian organizations are to do what they do best -- alleviate suffering -- they must reclaim their independence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rieff DavidPublisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.507kg ISBN: 9780743252119ISBN 10: 074325211 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 20 October 2003 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsTime A ruthlessly lucid book...hard, intelligent analysis. Brian Urquhart<p>former Undersecretary General of the United Nations<p> A Bed for the Night provides an excellent antidote to the hollow cliches and generalizations that often blur and distort the horribly real problems of helping the world's most afflicted people.<p> Brian Urquhart former Undersecretary General of the United Nations A Bed for the Night provides an excellent antidote to the hollow cliches and generalizations that often blur and distort the horribly real problems of helping the world's most afflicted people. Author InformationDavid Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including Swimming in a Sea of Death, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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