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A billion lives : an eyewitness report from the frontlines of humanity
- Title
- A billion lives : an eyewitness report from the frontlines of humanity / Jan Egeland.
- Author
- Egeland, Jan.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
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- Publisher description
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- Description
- xii, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Called "the world's conscience" and one of the 100 most influential people of our time by Time magazine, Jan Egeland takes us to the frontlines of war and chaos in Iraq, to scenes of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, to the ground zeroes of famine, earthquakes, and tsunamis. He challenges the first world to act. A Billion Lives is his on-the-ground account of his work in the most dangerous places in the world, where he has led relief efforts, negotiated truces with warlords, and intervened in what many had thought to be hopeless situations."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Always Speak the Truth: Ivory Coast, Humanity's First Line of Defense, February 2006 -- 2. The Bombs in Baghdad: Missions to Iraq Before and After the American Invasion -- 3. No End to Violence in Colombia: Thirty-five Years Traveling to the Land of Conflicts, 1976-2006 -- 4. Scorched Earth in Darfur: Relief, but no Protection for Civilians, 2003-07 -- 5. Tsunami! Nature at Its Worst, Humanity at Our Best -- 6. More Dead Children than Soldiers in the Middle East: Wars in Lebanon, Northern Israel, and Gaza, 2006 -- 7. The Life and Death of the Oslo Accord: The Norwegian Channel Between Israel and the PLO, 1992-93 -- 8. "Tents Are for Arabs": Meeting with President Robert Mugabe, December 2005 -- 9. Uganda's Twenty Thousand Kidnapped Children: Progress for the Victims of the World's Forgotten Emergency -- 10. The Generation That Can End the Suffering: A Renaissance for the United Nations.
- ISBN
- 9781416560968
- 1416560963
- LCCN
- 2007045913
- 40015233339
- OCLC
- 180989613
- ocn180989613
- SCSB-5396553
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries