The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? by Linda Polman

The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?



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Page: 240
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780805092905
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

"Marvellous, strange, and profound...Carries echoes of the African writings of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, and in a tone that is both disillusioned and fearless."---The Guardian" "A blood-boilingly good polemic that should knock a few halos off a few heads."---The Sunday Telegraph" "Unflinching...The intrepid Polman is a reporter of conspicuous courage...A tour de force."---The Sunday Times" "Vivid, concise, the pages of this necessary, contentious book burn with a righteous moral anger...A timely reminder that noble intentions and humanitarian motives are often stretched to, and beyond, breaking point in the febrile world of modern-day war."---The Daily Telegraph" "Essential reading. If this book can serve as a rallying cry to more radical, redistributive humanitarian alternatives, then it will have more than fulfilled its function."---The Times" "This disturbing account of the multibillion dollar juggernaut that is today's global humanitarian aid network raises profound questions not just about the palliative efficacy of aid, but whether it fuels and prolongs conflict...Deeply troubling."---Financial Times" "A withering catalogue of corruption, incompetence, and an aid industry that lives in unholy symbiosis with politicians and the military...The account of Afghaniscam is wonderfully awful. This is an exhilarating book."---The Scotsman" "A vast indutry has grown up around humanitarian aid, with cavalcades of organizations---an estimated 37,000---following the flow of money and competing for the biggest share of a $120-billion annual prize. To warring parties as well, humanitarian funds and supplies represent a business opportunity; indeed, aid has become a permanent feature of military strategy. But even as the humanitarian principle of impartiality is trampled underfoot by warlords, insurgents, mercenaries, and national governments, the aid operations continue to assert their claim of neutrality." "In a narrative that is impassioned, gripping, and darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman exposes the flaw in the claim. She travels the globe's war zones, from NGO-dense operations in "Afghaniscam" to the floating clinics of Texas Mercy Ships dropping anchor to proselytize on the shores of West Africa. In the process, she shows a humanitarian world participating in the abuse of its aid: refugee camps serve as base camp for genocidaires; aid supplies are diverted to fuel a war economy; "fact-inflation" ramps up disasters to bring in more funds." 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 sometimes deadly consequences of their deeds. Calling for a radically new approach to aid, The Crisis Caravan marks a turning point in the humanitarian debate. MORE EBOOKS:
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