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Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed : The MSF Experience by Claire Magone; Michael Neuman; Fabrice Weissman; Médecins sans frontières (Association) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged "clash of civilizations", our "humanitarian space" is shrinking. Put another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assumption through an analysis of the events that have marked MSF's history since 2003 (when MSF published its first general work on humanitarian action and its relationships with governments). It addresses the evolution of humanitarian goals, the resistance to these goals and the political arrangements that overcame this resistance (or that failed to do so). The contributors seek to analyse the political transactions and balances of power and interests that allow aid activities to move forward, but that are usually masked by the lofty rhetoric of "humanitarian principles". They focus on one key question: what is an acceptable compromise for MSF? This book seeks to puncture a number of the myths that have grown up over the forty years since MSF w

Who reads Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed : The MSF Experience?

Author

Claire Magone; Michael Neuman; Fabrice Weissman; Médecins sans frontières (Association)

Publisher

Hurst & Company

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849041621

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Political Science, Social Science