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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Today’s aid organizations often neglect key humanitarian principles because they have now become commercial businesses.
Chapter 3: Warring factions routinely exploit humanitarian aid in active zones of conflict.
Chapter 4: Based on their internal cost-benefit calculations, aid organizations often cherry-pick the crises they support.
Chapter 5: Aid organizations shape media coverage to attract attention to their humanitarian missions.
Chapter 6: Crisis victims lack protection from unqualified humanitarian aid efforts.
Chapter 7: Humanitarian aid efforts have failed in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Chapter 8: We must scrutinize humanitarian aid work if we truly hope to improve it.
Description
The Crisis Caravan (2011) is about the complexities and pitfalls that come with delivering humanitarian aid to conflict zones. Though aid is usually provided with nothing but good intentions, there are political, social and economic obstacles that can cause it to do more harm than good. These blinks outline the reasons aid work often fails, and offer advice on how we can improve it.
Who Should Listen
- Students of politics or conflict studies
- Anyone who has donated money to a humanitarian organization
- People thinking of working in humanitarian aid