The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance

Edited by: Kevin M. Cahill

In the series International Humanitarian Affairs

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823260744

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About this book

Understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian action—particularly following natural disasters or armed conflicts—has been the mission of this unique series. This book explores the cutting-edge concerns that will affect how assistance is offered in the future.

Featuring twelve original essays by leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars, the book is a state of the field report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in today’s world.

With contributions from such authorities as Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Charles McCormick, CEO of Save the Children, and physicians, military leaders, field workers, and others, the essays
confront the most critical issues facing the delivery of effective relief.

The issues include military and civilian cooperation in large-scale disasters, with special attention to the growth of private armies. How traditional nongovernmental organizations and faith-based agencies adapt to new
challenges is also explored. Ways to strengthen security for humanitarian workers, refugees, and internally displaced persons and those in transition after wars are also considered.

Bringing together diplomatic, military, medical, legal, political, religious, and ethical perspectives from experiences in Darfur, West Africa, Iraq, Pakistan, and other areas, the essays offer an authoritative inventory of where humanitarian relief has been, and how it must change to save lives and communities in peril.

Author / Editor information

Cahill Kevin M. :

Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. is University Professor and Director of Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA). He also serves as President of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC), Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital, Clinical Professor of Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University School of Medicine, Chief Medical Advisor for Counterterrorism, NYPD, Professor of International Humanitarian Affairs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Senior Consultant to the United Nations Health Service. Dr. Cahill has served as Chief Advisor on Humanitarian Affairs and Public Health for three Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly.

Reviews

—Laurie Garrett:

We are living in agonizingly complicated times, when a volunteer doctor
from Kansas may find herself repairing the broken bodies of an ethnic
conflict on a continent far away. She may one day look up to see a child
whose bones she mended a year ago now standing before her, machete in hand,
threatening murder. Whether they work for organizations like the Red Cross,
for United Nations agencies or for their governments, the world-over
humanitarians now find themselves in great confusion. This is an enormous,
soul-searching moment in history, brilliantly clarified and focused by The
Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance.

—Dirk Salomons:

In taking the pulse of humanitarian assistance, Dr. Cahill and his
impressive array of authors detect a steady heartbeat behind the
battered and bruised exterior of current relief operations.
Shrinking humanitarian space, the frustrations of inadequate
protection, the rarity of social justice, the challenges of
building local capacity and the need to move from first aid to
recovery all amount to a call for action. This book addresses these
issues with clinical clarity, and responds with a clear moral voice.
CPR in print.

—Tom Arnold:
This timely book discusses the many challenges facing humanitarians in their increasinglinly complex work. Kevin Cahill and his expert contributors have correctly identified what constitutes the pulse of humanitarian assistance, and many of the dilemmas it faces, in a thoughtful and constructive way.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acronyms Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Kevin M. Cahill and M. D. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Moving Targets
1. Patients Without Borders Bernard Kouchner and M. D. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: A Decade of Promises Sheri Fink and M. D. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3. No Justice Without Power: The Case for Humanitarian Intervention Alexander Van Tulleken and M. D. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Part 2 Military-Civilian Cooperation
4. The Humanitarian Community and the Private Sector Tim Cross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Looking Beyond the ‘‘Latest and Greatest’’ Christopher Holshek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6. Not If . . . But When and How? Larry Hollingworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
7. The 2005 Pakistan Earthquake Nadeem Ahmed and Andrew MacLeod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Part 3 Post-Conflict Issues
8. Protecting Societies in Transition Geoff Loane, Lois Austin and Pat Gibbons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Internal Displacement in West Africa: Challenges and Constraints Claudia McGoldrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Part 4 The NGO Perspective
10. Coordination and Collaboration: An NGO View Charles F. MacCormack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
11. Being With Them Lluis Magriñà and S. J. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
12. Transformation from Relief to a Justice and Solidarity Focus Joan Neal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
About the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation and the Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: disaster relief; aid work; humanitarian; international; refugee; conflict; security; war; medicine

eBook

Published: September 16, 2013
ISBN: 9780823260744