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The crisis caravan : what's wrong with humanitarian aid? / by Polman, Linda.(CARDINAL)366303; Polman, Linda.Crisiskaravaan.English.(CARDINAL)592619; Waters, Liz.(CARDINAL)476907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.Goma: a "total ethical disaster" -- Contract fever -- MONGOs -- Donor darlings -- Aid as a weapon of war -- Refugee warriors -- The hunger weapon -- When recipients call the shots -- Afghaniscam -- The logic of the humanitarian era -- Afterword: Ask them questions.Linda Polman takes us to war zones around the globe to show the often compromised results of aid workers' best intentions. It is time, Polman argues, to impose ethical boundaries, to question whether doing something is always better than doing nothing, and to hold humanitarians responsible for the consequences of their deeds. --from publisher description
Subjects: Disaster relief.; Humanitarian assistance.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The thin blue line : how humanitarianism went to war / by Foley, Conor.(CARDINAL)368379;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance; Humanitarian intervention.;
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The will to see : dispatches from a world of misery and hope / by Lévy, Bernard-Henri,Author(DLC)n 80051527 ;
An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world's most daring philosopher-reporters "Call[s] on people not just to see the world, but to be moved and interested by what they find there, and to do something about it."-Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic "Fierce and elegant, Levy's musings will be of profound interest to any reader of modern continental philosophy."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Levy into eight international hotspots--in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan--that have escaped global attention or active response. In a deeply personal introduction, Levy recounts the intellectual journey that led him to advocacy, arguing that a truly humanist philosophy must necessarily lead to action in defense of the most vulnerable. In the second section, he reports on the eight investigative trips he undertook just before or during the coronavirus pandemic, from the massacred Christian villages in Nigeria to a dangerously fragile Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban talks, from an anti-Semitic ambush in Libya to the overrun refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. Part manifesto, part missives from the field, this new book is a stirring rebuke to indifference and an exhortation to level our gaze at those most hidden from us.
Subjects: Disaster relief.; Humanitarian assistance.; Human services.;
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The sunflower / by Evans, Richard Paul,author.(CARDINAL)340505;
Heartbroken and bereft when her fiance b̌acks out a week before the wedding, Christine Hollister allows herself to be talked into a volunteer work trip to Peru by best friend Jessica so that the pair can work together in an orphanage called the Sunflower. There she meets Paul Cook, the handsome but damaged former ER doc who left the U.S. after being blamed for a series of tragic Christmas deaths on the ward.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Humanitarian assistance; Americans;
Available copies: 99 / Total copies: 102
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The sunflower [large print] / by Evans, Richard Paul.(CARDINAL)340505;
Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiance calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol -- The Sunflower. It is while working at the orphanage that Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal day took away his career, his faith, and the woman he loved. Unplanned events lead Paul and Christine into the jungle of the Amazon, where Christine must confront her deepest fears, and she, and Paul, must both learn to trust and love again.
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Humanitarian assistance; Americans;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 21
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The sunflower / by Evans, Richard Paulauthor.(DLC)n 95047423 ; Scott, Campbell,narrator.(DLC)no 96043160;
Read by Campbell Scott."Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiancé calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol -- The Sunflower. While working at the orphanage Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal day took away his career, his faith, and the woman he loved. Unplanned events lead Paul and Christine into the jungle of the Amazon, where Christine must confront her deepest fears, and she, and Paul, must both learn to trust and love again" -- from publisher's web site.Compact disc.
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance; Americans;
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Home of the brave [videorecording] / by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.; Winkler, Irwin-Director.;
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents in association with Millennium Films, a film by Irwin Winkler ; produced by Rob Cowan, Avi Lerner, George Furla, Irwin Winkler ; story by Mark Friedman & Irwin Winkler ; screenplay by Mark Friedman ; directed by Irwin Winkler. Director of photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; edited by Clayton Halsey ; music by Stephen Endelman ; costume designer, Karyn Wagner ; production designer, Warren Alan Young.Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, Brian Presley, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray.Shortly after receiving the news that they will soon be reunited with their families back in the United States, a unit serving in Iraq is deployed on one last humanitarian mission. Their objective is to deliver medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. Upon arriving in the village, the unit is viciously ambushed and many lives are lost. Now, as the four surviving members of the battalion return home and attempt to readjust to civilian life, the physical injuries and psychological scars sustained during that tragic event continue to take a heavy emotional toll on the war-torn soldiers. -R-for war violence and language.
Subjects: War -- Feature.; Iraq War, 2003- -- Drama.; Humanitarian assistance -- Iraq -- Drama.;
© 2006. , Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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Three cups of tea [sound recording]: one man's mission to promote peace ...one school at a time / by Mortenson, Greg.(CARDINAL)475431; Relin, David Oliver.(CARDINAL)475432;
Read by Patrick Lawlor.Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.
Subjects: Girls' schools; Girls' schools; Humanitarian assistance, American; Humanitarian assistance, American;
© cp2008., Tantor Media,
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Three cups of tea [sound recording] : one man's mission to promote peace . . . one school at a time / by Mortenson, Greg,author.(CARDINAL)475431; Relin, David Oliver,author.(CARDINAL)475432; Relin, David Oliver.(CARDINAL)475432; Tantor Media, Inc.; Tantor Media, Inc.,publisher.;
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor.Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.General adult.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Girls' schools; Girls' schools; Humanitarian assistance, American; Humanitarian assistance, American;
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Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time. by Mortenson, Greg.(CARDINAL)475431; Relin, David Oliver.(CARDINAL)475432;
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.1220LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Girls' schools; Girls' schools; Humanitarian assistance, American; Humanitarian assistance, American;
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