Resources: A History of Humanitarian Aid

Roots of Humanitarianism

• Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Neutral aid to all in need

• “Who We Are: History” IFRC.org

The Red Cross

• “Who We Are: History” IFRC.org

Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Peace 1901: Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
• The Nobel Prize in Peace 1963: International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies

Millions in need

• “CARE History” Care.org.
• “Catholic Relief Services History” Crs.org.
• “History of Oxfam International” Oxfam.org.
• “History of the International Rescue Committee” Theirc.org.

The Limits of Neutrality

• “ICRC in WW II: the Holocaust” ICRC.org. 2 January 2005

Never again

• “About the United Nations / History” Un.org.
• “Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949” ICRC.org

The rights of refugees

• “History of UNHCR” UNHRC.org

Fundamental principles

• “Significant dates in the history of international humanitarian law and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement” ICRC.org

Biafra

• Foley, Conor. “Humanitarian errors” Guardian.co.uk. 20 September 2007.
  

MSF founded

• “About Us: History and Principles” Doctorswithoutborders.org.
• Foley, Conor. “Humanitarian errors” Guardian.co.uk. 20 September 2007.

Ethiopia & Live Aid

• “BBC: Ethiopian famine aid ‘siphoned off’ to buy weapons according to rebels, report” En.wikinews.org. 5 March 2010.
• Milner, Kate. “Flashback 1984: Portrait of a famine” News.bbc.co.uk. 6 April 2000.
  

“Containment through charity”

• “Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The World Fact Book: Europe. CIA.gov. 19 August 2010.
• Rieff, David.  A Bed for the Night : Humanitarianism in Crisis. New York, N.Y.; Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Aid, not intervention

• “The International Response to Conflict and Genocide:Lessons from the Rwanda Experience” Um.dk.
• Rieff, David.  A Bed for the Night : Humanitarianism in Crisis. New York, N.Y.; Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
  
• “Rwanda: How the genocide happened” News.bbc.co.uk. 18 December 2008.
  

Pooled funding

• Poole, Lydia. “Funding according to needs: the UN Consolidated Appeal Process” Globalhumanitarianassistance.org. 9 July 2010.
• “What is the CERF?” Ochaonline.un.org.
  

Famine Crimes

• De Waal, Alex. Famine Crimes: politics & the disaster relief industry in Africa. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Famine Crimes is published and distributed by Indiana University Press and James Currey Publishers.  We thank them for permission to use the book’s cover image.

Sphere project

• “About Us” Sphereproject.org.
  

“Do No Harm”

MSF wins Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Peace 1999: Médecins Sans Frontières

“Humanitarian war”

• Rieff, David.  A Bed for the Night : Humanitarianism in Crisis. New York, N.Y.; Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
  

The Responsibility to Protect

• “The Responsibility to Protect” ICISS.ca.
  
• ICRtoP: International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect
  

Blurring the Lines

• Kenyon Lischer, Sarah. “Military intervention and the humanitarian “force multiplier”” Bnet, Findarticles.com. Jan-March 2007.
  
• Rieff, David.  A Bed for the Night : Humanitarianism in Crisis. New York, N.Y.; Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
  

Aid workers targeted

• “Aid workers to be honoured on first annual day” Alertnet.org. 17 August 2009.
• Batha, Emma. “2008 was deadliest year for aid workers – study” Alertnet.org. 6 April 2009.
• “Top UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello killed in terrorist blast in Baghdad” Un.org. 19 August 2003.
• World Humanitarian Day: 19 August 2010: Security Trends [PDF]

Certifying accountability

• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership

Tsunami chaos

Prepositioning aid

• Beiser, Vince. “Organizing Armageddon: What We Learned From the Haiti Earthquake” Wired.com. 19 April 2010.

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