Blinded by Humanity: Inside the Un's Humanitarian Operations

by Martin Barber

Book Overview

How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the United Nations. Martin Barber, for many years a senior UN official and with decades of humanitarian experience, here argues that the explanation for UN 'failures' or only partial successes lies not with any lack of idealism or good intentions but with the constraints placed on aid workers by ill-considered policies and poor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784536237
• ISBN13: 9781784536237
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"