Aid in Danger
Subtitle: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 14, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780812246032
Description: Based on more than a decade of research, this book explores the assumptions underpinning existing explanations of and responses to violence against aid workers. According to Fast, most explanations of attacks locate the causes externally and maintain an image of aid workers as an exceptionally category of civilians.
Notes: Source title: Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of Humanitarianism (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)