Author: Kevin Cahill
Publisher: Fordham University Pre
Keywords: humanitarian, affairs, international, assistance, pulse
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0823227162
ISBN-13: 9780823227167

Understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian action--particularly following natural disasters or armed conflicts--has been the mission of this unique series. This book explores the cutting-edge concerns that will affect how assistance is offered in the future.Featuring twelve original essays by leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars, the book is a state of the field report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in today’s world.With contributions from such authorities as Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Charles McCo

Author: Yves Beigbeder
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: humanitarian, legal, assistance, aspects, inte, duty, organizations, status, international, volunteers, role, right
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1991-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0792311906
ISBN-13: 9780792311904

Author: Kevin Cahill
Publisher: Fordham University Pre
Keywords: international, humanitarian, affairs, mission, basics
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-11-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 082322242X
ISBN-13: 9780823222421

A necessary companion volume to Emergency Relief Operations, this book is a primer on designing, building, funding, and managing humanitarian action programs. Drawing their experience in such groups as Medecins sans Fronti�res, the World Health Organization, and the International Red Cross, the distinguished contributors explore the political, legal, ethical, cultural, and logistical aspects of effective relief work—from funding and team building to working with local NGOs.

Author: Dieter Fleck
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, humanitarian, international, handbook
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2009-09-21
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0199573166
ISBN-13: 9780199573165

This second edition of this work sets out a comprehensive and analytical manual of international humanitarian law, accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts. Topics examined include the historical development, legal basis, and scope of application of international humanitarian law; methods and means of combat; protection of the civilian population, and of the wounded, sick or shipwrecked, and of prisoners of war; the protection of cultural property; the law of neutrality; and the enforcement of internationa

Author: Larry Minear
Publisher: Kumarian Pre
Keywords: discoveries, dilemmas, enterprise, humanitarian
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1565491491
ISBN-13: 9781565491496

International humanitarian activities have grown enormously in scale over the past ten years. Alongside this greater experience, the complex links between humanitarian work and the worlds of politics and military engagement have become ever more contested. Through the lens of the Humanitarianism and War Project, Larry Minear explores what international humanitarians ? from the UN and national governments, to the Red Cross and the many private relief and development agencies ? have learned about how to do humanitarian work well, and the arguments which remain unresolved. With an epilogue on the

Author: Dieter Fleck
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: conflicts, armed, law, humanitarian, handbook
Number of Pages: 775
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $215.00
ISBN-10: 0199232504
ISBN-13: 9780199232505

This fully updated second edition of The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts sets out an international ’manual’ of humanitarian law in armed conflicts accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts. Topics examined include the historical development, legal basis, and scope of application of international humanitarian law; methods and means of combat; protection of the civilian population, and of the wounded, sick or shipwrecked, and of prisoners of war; the protection of cultural property

Author: Gary D. Solis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: law, war, humanitarian, conflict, armed, international
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0521870887
ISBN-13: 9780521870887

The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law applies to particular armed conflicts? Does that law apply to terrorists as well? What is the status of participants in an armed conflict? What constitutes a war crime? What is a lawful target and how are targeting decisions made? What are rules of engagement? What weapons are lawful and unlawful, and why? This text takes the reader through these essential questions of the law of armed conflict