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Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners and their craft
Author(s): Larry Minear (Author), Hazel Smith (Author)
- Publisher: United Nations University
- Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 450 pages
- ISBN-10: 9280811347
- ISBN-13: 9789280811346
Book Description
Humanitarian professionals are on the front lines of today’s internal armed conflicts, negotiating access through physical and diplomatic roadblocks to reach imperiled civilians. This volume provides a compendium of experiences presented and analysed by 14 senior humanitarian practitioners who led humanitarian operations in settings as diverse as the Balkans and Nepal, Somalia and East Timor, and across a time frame from the 1970s in Cambodia and 1980s in Lebanon to more recent engagement in Colombia and Iraq.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Written by humanitarian practitioners themselves, this volume provides invaluable insights into the crucial lessons learned from recent relief operations and considers what might be done to make this work more effective.” –Gil Loescher, Center for International Studies, University of Oxford “This book successfully establishes the concept of ‘Humanitarian Diplomacy’ which will be a permanent fixture in humanitarian efforts for years to come. Each chapter is a tribute to the skills of thousands of humanitarians whose ‘small d’ diplomatic skills keep millions of people alive every day.” –Catherine Bertini, Syracuse University and former Executive Director, UN World Food Programme
About the Author
Larry Minear is director of the Humanitarianism and War Project at Tufts University. Hazel Smith is a professor in international relations at the University of Warwick, U.K.
