History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader

465 Pages·2013·1.775 MB·English

by  Kevin M. Cahill

History and Hope
IHA BOOK SERIES
The International Humanitarian Affairs book series, edited by Kevin M. Cahill,
M.D., is devoted to improving the effectiveness of humanitarian relief programs.
With contributions by leading professionals, the books are practical guides to
responding to the many different effects of civil strife, natural disasters, epidemics,
and other crises. All books are available online at www.fordhampress.com. Books
marked with an asterisk are available in French translation from Robert Laffont
of Paris; books marked with a double asterisk are available in Spanish, German,
Arabic, and French.
Preventive Diplomacy: Stopping Wars Before They Start, 2000*
Basics of International Humanitarian Missions, 2003*
Emergency Relief Operations, 2003*
Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action, 2003*
Human Security for All: A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, 2004
Technology for Humanitarian Action, 2004
To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity, 2005*
Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text, 7th edition, 2006
The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance, 2007
Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency, 2010
Sudan at the Brink: Self-Determination and National Unity, F. D. Deng, 2010**
Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text, 8th edition (Jubilee Edition), 2011*
More with Less: Disasters in an Era of Diminishing Resources, 2012
IIHA OCCASIONAL PAPERS
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., Abdulrahim Abby Farah, Abdirazak Haji Hussen, and
David Shinn, The Future of Somalia: Stateless and Tragic, 2004
Mark Malloch Brown, International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance, 2006
Francis Deng, Sudan: From Genocidal Wars to Frontiers of Peace and Unity, 2006
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., The University and Humanitarian Action, 2008
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., Romance and Reality in Humanitarian Action, 2008
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., Gaza: Destruction and Hope, 2009
Daithi O’Ceallaigh, The Tale Towards a Treaty—A Ban on Cluster Munition, 2010
History and Hope
THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN READER
Edited byKEVIN M. CAHILL, M.D.
A JOINT PUBLICATION OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS AND
THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN COOPERATION
NEW YORK 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
History and hope : the international humanitarian reader / edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.
— First edition.
pages cm. — (International humanitarian affairs)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8232-5196-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8232-5197-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Humanitarian assistance. 2. International relief. 3. Humanitarianism. I. Cahill, Kevin M.
HV544.5.H57 2013
361.2—dc23
2012046488
Printed in the United States of America
15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1
First edition
All royalties from this book go to the training of humanitarian workers.
For Herbert Allen, whose steady, generous support
of my clinical programs, research, and academic initiatives
has changed dreams and visions into realities
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Contents
Foreword
LORD DAVID OWEN xi
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction
KEVIN M. CAHILL, M.D. 1
PART I. HISTORY
Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century:
The Danger of a Setback
PAUL GROSSRIEDER 14
Humanitarian Ethical and Legal Standards
MICHEL VEUTHEY 26
Humanitarian Vignettes
NICOLA SMITH AND LARRY HOLLINGWORTH 40
Humanitarian Response in the Era of Global Mobile
Information Technology
VALERIE AMOS 43
PART II. PRINCIPLES/VALUES
Neutrality or Impartiality
ALAIN DESTEXHE, M.D. 54
Torture
TIMOTHY W. HARDING, M.D. 69
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CONTENTS
Issues of Power and Gender in Complex Emergencies
JUDY A. BENJAMIN 84
Terrorism: Theory and Reality
LARRY HOLLINGWORTH 97
A Human Rights Agenda for Global Security
IRENE KHAN 112
PART III. EVOLVING NORMS
The Limits of Sovereignty
FRANCIS DENG 124
The Child Protection Viewpoint
ALEC WARGO 140
Preserving Humanitarian Space in Long-Term Confl ict
PETER HANSEN 155
Humanitarian Action in a New Barbarian Age
DAVID RIEFF 169
PART IV. ACTORS
The Challenges of Preventive Diplomacy: The Role of the
United Nations and Its Secretary-General
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI 178
Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural
Disasters
ED TSUI 192
The Peacekeeping Prescription
KOFI A. ANNAN 208
Reviving Global Civil Society After September 11
RICHARD FALK 222
The Academy and Humanitarian Action
JOSEPH A. O’HARE, S.J. 235
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CONTENTS
Government Responses to Foreign Policy Challenges
PETER TARNOFF 243
Disasters and the Media
JEREMY TOYE 255
Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination: Looking
Beyond the “Latest and Greatest”
CHRISTOPHER HOLSHEK 270
PART V. OPERATIONAL
Evidence-Based Health Assessment Process in Complex
Emergencies
FREDERICK M. BURKLE JR., M.D. 288
Teamwork in Emergency Humanitarian Relief Situations
PAMELA LUPTON-BOWERS 303
Education as a Survival Strategy: Sixty Years of Schooling
for Palestinian Refugees
SAM ROSE 320
What Can Modern Society Learn from Indigenous
Resiliency?
MARGARETA WAHLSTROM 335
PART VI. EXIT STRATEGIES
To Bind Our Wounds: A One-Year Post-9/11 Address
KEVIN M. CAHILL, M.D. 340
The Transition from Confl ict to Peace
RICHARD RYSCAVAGE, S.J. 346
Humanitarianism’s Age of Reason
GHASSAN SALAMÉ 356
Healing with a Single History
RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE 370
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