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Title

Hard choices : moral dilemmas in humanitarian intervention / edited by Jonathan Moore.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Moore, Jonathan.

Description

xiii, 322 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• From their various cultural and professional perspectives the authors cover issues of human rights, development, 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.
• Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. 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.

Subjects

• War victims > Services for
• Relief Work
• Warfare
• Humanitarian assistance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Cornelio Sommaruga -- Introduction / Jonathan Moore -- 1. From War and Peace to Violence and Intervention: Permanent Moral Dilemmas under Changing Political and Technological Conditions / Pierre Hassner -- 2. Military Intervention and National Sovereignty: Recasting the Relationship / J. Bryan Hehir -- 3. Peacekeeping, Military Intervention, and National Sovereignty in Internal Armed Conflict / Kofi A. Annan -- 4. The End of Innocence: Rwanda 1994 / Romeo A. Dallaire -- 5. Mixed Intervention in Somalia and the Great Lakes: Culture, Neutrality, and the Military / Mohamed Sahnoun -- 6. Military-Humanitarian Ambiguities in Haiti / Colin Granderson -- 7. Weaving a New Society in Cambodia: The Story of Monath / Mu Sochua -- 8. "You Save My Life Today, But for What Tomorrow?" Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid / Mary B. Anderson -- 9. Hard Choices after Genocide: Human Rights and Political Failures in Rwanda / Ian Martin --
• 10. Refugee Camps, Population Transfers, and NGOs / Rony Brauman -- 11. Bringing War Criminals to Justice during an Ongoing War / Richard J. Goldstone -- 12. Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes / Jose Zalaquett -- 13. The Morality of Sanctions / Larry Minear -- 14. Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture / Roger Williamson -- 15. A Future, If One Is Still Alive: The Challenge of the HIV Epidemic / Elizabeth Reid -- 16. The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid / Michael Ignatieff.

ISBN

• 084769030X (alk. paper)
• 0847690318 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98019157

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries