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Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 361.26
EAN: 9780823222889
ISBN: 0823222888
Label: Fordham University Press
Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 466
Publication Date: January 01, 2003
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date: January 01, 2003
Studio: Fordham University Press
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This third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the heart of humanitarian actions. How do different religious, cultural, and social systemsand the values they supportshape humanitarian action? What are the bases of caring societies? Are there universal values for human well-being? International experts come face to face with the assumptions about human dignity and social justice that guide efforts to rescue and repair communities in crisis. The original essays explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. They explore threats to human welfare from terrorism and gender exploitation and assess international law, the media, and the politics of civil society in a world of war, conflict, and strife. The contributors: Kofi Annan, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler, H.R.H. Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, Francis Mading Deng, Maj. Gen. Timothy Cross, Joseph O Hare, S.J., Tom Brokaw, Eoin OBrien, M.D., Jan Eliasson, Timothy Harding, M.D., Paul Wilkinson, Larry Hollingworth, Nancy Ely-Raphel, John Feerick, Michael Veuthey, Edward Mortimer, Kathleen Newland, Peter Tarnoff, Richard Falk, and the editor.
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Rating: - Thoughtfully informative and seminally important
Compiled and edited by Kevin M. Cahill (Director of the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University), Traditions, Values, And Humanitarian Action is a collection of nineteen erudite essays by various learned and scholarly authors informatively examining some of the fundamental issues surrounding humanitarian action, including reaching beyond practical difficulties of providing humanitarian assistance in a world of global politics, to the intermeshing of different religious, ... Read More
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