Humanitarianism in Crisis

TitleHumanitarianism in Crisis
Publication TypeMagazine Article
Year of Publication2002
AuthorsRieff, David
MagazineForeign Affairs
Volume81
Frequencybimonthly
Issue Number6
Pagination111 - 121
Date Published11/2002
Abstract

First Paragraph: A WORLD APART? The humanitarian world emerged from the 1990s both saddened and chastened. Again and again nonprofit and UN personnel had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of particular crises -- as when 2 million people crossed from Rwanda into Zaire in 1994, or when 800,000 Kosovar Albanians were forcibly deported from the province by Serb forces in the spring of 1999. Even more unnerving was the sense that, often despite the relief groups' own best efforts, the moral dilemmas attendant on their actions had only grown more acute over the course of the decade. Even so, humanitarians did not give up. Non-governmental organizations (NGOS) and UN agencies multiplied their efforts to refine their operations in light of the lessons of Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Still, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, experienced relief workers had come to accept the new conventional wisdom that there are no humanitarian solutions to humanitarian problems.

URLhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2002-11-01/humanitarianism-crisis
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