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9781849041423: Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action
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ISBN 10 : 1849041423 ISBN 13 : 9781849041423
Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is because these French doctors - first and foremost Medecins Sans Frontieres and its 'little sister' Medecins du Monde - have created a style of humanitarian action that combines intervention in crises with critical assessment of and commentary on the human tragedies -- wars, famines, earthquakes -- in which they find themselves involved. The humanitarian practices we are familiar with today were devised, through trial and errors, by agencies in the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland. France was the last to join the group of so-called 'founder democracies' in the humanitarian field. A closer examination of the history of humanitarianism reveals that it was by drawing on already existing forms of action that MSF, MDM and many others gradually developed its particular brand of intervention, which combines relief practices learnt from the Red Cross with efforts to mobilise public opinion using strategies invented by Amnesty International. The contributors to this volume assess the competing French and 'Anglo-Saxon' models of intervention in the hope of learning from both and formulating approaches to humanitarianism for the twenty-first century. CONTRIBUTORS: Philippe Ryfman, Hugo Slim, Egbert Sondorp, Francois Grunewald, Hugh Goyder, Sami Makki, James Darcy, Christophe Courtin, Adeel Jafferi.

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À propos de l'auteur

Karl Blanchet is a research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Boris Martin is Editor of the French journal Humanitaire, published by Medecins du Monde- France. He is also an independent publisher and author.

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Éditeur
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849041423
ISBN 13 
9781849041423
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Éditeur
Martin Boris, Blanchet Karl
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