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This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabw[...]
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This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi, and provides the reader with an appropriate background for an understanding of Burundi's transition to multiparty democracy and the coup and vi[...]
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The author enlists history, politics, economics and geography to disentangle the reasons why up to 400,000 people have been killed and millions more displaced in the continuing genocide. The first sections recount Darfur's time as an independent[...]
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Through a rich examination of the practice of non-state armed groups and careful analysis of legal developments in international humanitarian and human rights law, Ezequiel Heffes provides valuable insight into the protective role of internation[...]
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The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant to security and the post-2015 sustainable development framework. It estimates that 508,000 people died violently—in both conflict and non-conflict setting[...]
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Solomon Benatar, Author ; Gillian Brock, Author | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press | 2021Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable with the accelerated destruction of the planet. Building on the success of the previous edition, t[...]
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The genocide in Rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder. But the conflict in Kosovo raised equally important questions about the consequences of action without international consensus and clea[...]
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Richard Ashby Wilson, Editor ; Richard D. Brown, Editor | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press | 2009Humanitarian sentiments have motivated a variety of manifestations of pity, from nineteenth-century movements to end slavery to the creation of modern international humanitarian law. While humanitarianism is clearly political, the book addresses[...]
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This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by th[...]
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Eric Stover, Publishing director ; Ariel Dorfman, Author of introduction, etc. | Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press | 2006Tackling the crucial issue of our day--the rebuilding of countries following ethnic cleansing and genocide, this book evaluates the role of trials and tribunals with regard to social reconstruction and reconciliation. The voices of the people of[...]
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