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HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE --- NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

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DISASTER RELIEF --- HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE --- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

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The 'War on Terror' has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers, and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate. From the battlefield in Afghanistan to the frontier refugee camps in Pakistan, the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the tense flashpoint of the Turkey-Syria border, the author travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth to reveal the new relationship between aid agencies and western security. While some agencies have clung to their neutrality, he finds others risking their impartiality in their pursuit of official funding. In a world where the advance of Islamic State constitutes the gravest affront to humanitarian practice and principle faced in decades, he poses the crucial question -can Western nations go to war in a country and aid it at the same time ?

HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE --- INTERNATIONAL RELIEF --- WAR RELIEF

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EDUCATION--AFGHANISTAN --- EDUCATION--PAKISTAN --- HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, AMERICAN--PAKISTAN --- HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, AMERICAN--AFGHANISTAN

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The Syrian war has been a blatant example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. This book discusses the dilemmas of how to respond to such a complex crisis while adhering to international law and practice. The author draws from first-hand diplomatic, practitioner, and UN sources. he sheds light on the UN's credibility crisis and the wider implications for the development of international humanitarian and human rights law. Was it both legally correct and morally justifiable to deliver the big bulk of aid through Damascus while destruction and suffering was mostly caused by the regime itself ? Should the UN have severed its cooperation ? Why was it so difficult to deliver cross-border aid ? The meticulous account of current international practice is both insightful and disturbing. It tackles the painful lessons learnt and provides recommendations for future challenges where politics fails and humanitarians fill the moral void.

HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE--SYRIA --- SYRIA--HISTORY--CIVIL WAR, 2011-