War and Hunger: Rethinking International Responses to Complex Emergencies

摘要: Conflicts, such as those in Bosnia, Somalia, Angola and Rwanda, involve not just civil deaths but also widespread hunger even famine. United Nations agencies many charitable organizations have tried to intervene order reduce the human suffering involved, but, this investigation reveals, they confront numerous difficulties, contradictions limitations on what can achieve. The authors explore how warfare increases hunger. Chapters focus reforms required of UN's machinery if it is cope more effectively, make reassessments role relief time war, ask NGOs should respond new circumstances thrown up by post-Cold War international interventions.