Aid and relief programmes

Despite impressive economic growth rates over the last decade, foreign aid still plays a significant role in Africa's political economies.

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy.

Das Buch zur aktuellen Flüchtlingskrise Er rettete Zehntausende bedrohte Hutu aus dem Regenwald, koordinierte die internationalen Maßnahmen im Kosovo.

On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation.

Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state.

A "e;superb account"e; of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation's northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).

An accessible introduction for all social science studentsA balanced, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the issues and trendsA guide to the past, present and future of foreign aidForeign aid has undergone considerable changes over the past fifty years.

An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation.

In recent years the United States and many other international donors have embraced civil society aid as a key tool of democracy promotion.

Americas wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist sanctuaries and safe havens.

This new volume, Disaster Recovery: Community-Based Psychosocial Support in the ?

This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism.

At the moment, over 65 million people are forcibly displaced from their homes.

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state.

In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes.

Chatting with notorious war criminal Charles Taylor on the lawn of his presidential mansion as ostriches and armed teenagers strut in the background.

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word "e;peacebuilding"e; evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse.

Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest?

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child.

On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation.

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'.

Africa is poor.

A Washington Post bestsellerWhile the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor.

The term "e;sanctuary city"e; gained a new level of national recognition during the 2016 United States presidential election, and immigration policies and debates have remained a top issue since the election of Donald Trump.

For over 150 years, the Red Cross has brought succour to the world's needy, from sick and wounded soldiers on the battlefield, to political detainees, to those suffering the effects of natural disasters.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

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This book examines South-South development aid and cooperation amongst BRICS and other developing countries from the angle of New Structural Economics.

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World.

In Making the World Safe, historian Julia Irwin offers an insightful account of the American Red Cross, from its founding in 1881 by Clara Barton to its rise as the government's official voluntary aid agency.

This book takes a look at the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the UK, and Papua New Guinea.

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment.

Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the associational revolution in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia.

What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters?

Africa is poor.

Throughout the 1990s, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries.

Gegen Profit und Heuchelei: Für Hilfe, die wirklich hilft!

Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century.

Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa.

The term "e;sanctuary city"e; gained a new level of national recognition during the 2016 United States presidential election, and immigration policies and debates have remained a top issue since the election of Donald Trump.

What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid?

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response.

Calderisi shows that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement; that corrupt, dictatorial regimes have hobbled agriculture, enterprise and foreign investment; that African family values and fatalism are more destructive than tribalism; and that African leaders prey intentionally on Western guilt.

This edited volume analyzes the evolution of international disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human rights, sovereignty, and technology.