| Title : | Hard Choices : Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Jonathan Moore, Editor | | Publisher: | Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | | Publication Date: | 1999 | | Pagination: | xiii; 322 p. | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-84769-031-2 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical index (p. [303]-315) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Humanitarian assistance
Moral and ethical aspects
War victims - Legal status, laws, et
| | Class number: | 363.3 | | Abstract: | Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find themselves in the midst of confusion and weakness where what they seek are clarity and stability. Competing needs, rights, and values can obscure even the best international efforts to quell violence and assuage crises of poverty. More attention must be paid to the complexity of issues and moral dilemmas involved. This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and scholars brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions ranging from Rwanda and Somalia to Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia. From their various cultural and professional perspectives the authors cover issues of human rights, sanctions, arms trade, refugees, HIV, and the media. Together they make the case that, although there are no easy answers, moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decision making and intervention in internal conflicts. Published under the auspices of The International Committee of the Red Cross. | | Contents note: | Pierre Hassner: From War and Peace to Violence and Intervention : Permanent Moral Dilemmas under Changing Political and Technological Conditions; Hebir J. Bryan: Military Intervention and National Sovereignty : Recasting the Relationship; Kofi A. Annan: Peacekeeping, Hard Choices : Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention and National Sovereignty in Internal Armed Conflict; Romeo A. Dallaire: The End of Innocence : Rwanda 1994; Mohamed Sahnoun: Mixed Interventions in Somalia and the Great Lakes : Culture, Neutrality, and the Military; Colin Granderson: Military-Humanitarian Ambiguities in Haiti; Mu Sochua: Weaving a New Society in Cambodia : The Story of Month; Mary B. Anderson: "You save my life today, but for what tomorrow?" Some moral dilemmas of humanitarian aid; Ian Martin: Hard choices after genocide : human rights and political failures in Rwanda; Rony Brauman: Refugee camps, population transfers, and NGOs; Richard J. Goldstone: Bringing war criminals to justice during an ongoing war; Jose Zalaquett: Moral reconstruction in the wake of human rights violations and war crimes; Larry Minear: Morality of sanctions; Roger Williamson: Moving in vicious circles : the moral dilemmas of arms transfers and weapons manufacture; Elizabeth Reid: Future, if one is still alive : the challenge of the HIV epidemic; Michael Ignatieff: Stories we tell : television and humanitarian aid; | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19141 |
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