The crisis caravan
Subtitle: what's wrong with humanitarian aid?
By: Linda Polman ; translated by Liz Waters
Contributors: Waters, Liz
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780805092905
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance; Disaster relief
Work titles: Crisiskaravaan
Description: Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe to show the often compromised results of aid workers' best intentions. It is time, Polman argues, to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing something is always better than doing nothing, and to hold humanitarians responsible for the consequences of their deeds. --from publisher description
Notes: "First English edition published in the United Kingdom in 2010 under the title War games by Viking, London"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index.

Translation of: De crisiskaravaan.
Table of contents: title: Goma: a "total ethical disaster"; title: Contract fever; title: MONGOs; title: Donor darlings; title: Aid as a weapon of war; title: Refugee warriors; title: The hunger weapon; title: When recipients call the shots; title: Afghaniscam; title: The logic of the humanitarian era; title: Afterword: Ask them questions.