Hard Choices
Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
Published on 19. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8476-9031-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find themselves in the midst of confusion and weakness where what they seek are clarity and stability. Competing needs, rights, and values can obscure even the best international efforts to quell violence and assuage crises of poverty. More attention must be paid to the complexity of issues and moral dilemmas involved.
This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and scholars brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions ranging from Rwanda and Somalia to Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia. From their various cultural and professional perspectives the authors cover issues of human rights, sanctions, arms trade, refugees, HIV, and the media. Together they make the case that, although there are no easy answers, moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decisionmaking and intervention in internal conflicts.
Published under the auspices of The International Committee of the Red Cross.
This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and scholars brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions ranging from Rwanda and Somalia to Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia. From their various cultural and professional perspectives the authors cover issues of human rights, sanctions, arms trade, refugees, HIV, and the media. Together they make the case that, although there are no easy answers, moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decisionmaking and intervention in internal conflicts.
Published under the auspices of The International Committee of the Red Cross.
Reviews / Votes
Sharply worded statements of uncomfortable truths. -- Eliot A. Cohen, Counselor of the Department of State, 2007-2009; Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2019-2021 * Foreign Affairs * A short chapter by the Canadian General Romeo Dallaire in Hard Choices must qualify as the most gripping account of peacekeeping ever written. -- Alex de Waal * London Review Of Books * The book is not about Kosovo per se, but its themes and illustrations are pertinent to our current turmoil in the Balkans. One obvious point is that the consequences of inaction can be horrible. * The Boston Sunday Globe * Every chapter in this timely book is worth reading. -- Larman C. Wilson, American University * Perspectives on Political Science * The volume is the most comprehensive available about the view of the international community on morally sound and policy-prudent intervention. . . . Recommended for upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and faculty collections. * Choice Reviews * Each of these essays shows a different aspect of the dilemmas confronting humanitarian workers as well as the multiple and often incompatible tasks that fall within the range of humanitarian intervention. -- Nicholas Xenos, University of Massachusetts, Amherst This volume illuminates what may be the challenge for the next decade, century, and millennium: closing the gap between lofty rethoric and the reality in the field. -- Diane Paul, Human Rights Watch, Brown University Humanitarianism and War Project, Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights * International Politics * The book is a solid contribution to the ever-growing debate on humanitarian intervention. * Journal of Peace Research * Hard Choices is a remarkably franc attempt to consider the consequences and shortcomings of humanitarian intervention. * International Review Of The Red Cross *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
547 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9031-2 (9780847690312)
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Persons
Jonathan Moore is a senior advisor to the administrator of the UN Development Program and associate at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
Content
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 From War and Peace to Violence and Intervention: Permanent Moral Dilemmas under Changing Political and Technological Conditions
Chapter 4 Military Intervention and National Sovereignty: Recasting the Relationship
Chapter 5 Peacekeeping, Military Intervention, and National Sovereignty in Internal Armed Conflict
Chapter 6 The End of Innocence: Rwanda 1994
Chapter 7 Mixed Intervention in Somalia and the Great Lakes: Culture, Neutrality, and the Military
Chapter 8 Military-Humanitarian Ambiguities in Haiti
Chapter 9 Weaving a New Society in Cambodia: The Story of Monath
Chapter 10 "You Save My Life Today, But for What Tomorrow?" Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 11 Hard Choices after Genocide: Human Rights and Political Failures in Rwanda
Chapter 12 Refugee Camps, Population Transfers, and NGOs
Chapter 13 Bringing War Criminals to Justice during an Ongoing War
Chapter 14 Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes
Chapter 15 The Morality of Sanctions
Chapter 16 Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture
Chapter 17 A Future, If One Is Still Alive: The Challenge of the HIV Epidemic
Chapter 18 The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 19 Index
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 From War and Peace to Violence and Intervention: Permanent Moral Dilemmas under Changing Political and Technological Conditions
Chapter 4 Military Intervention and National Sovereignty: Recasting the Relationship
Chapter 5 Peacekeeping, Military Intervention, and National Sovereignty in Internal Armed Conflict
Chapter 6 The End of Innocence: Rwanda 1994
Chapter 7 Mixed Intervention in Somalia and the Great Lakes: Culture, Neutrality, and the Military
Chapter 8 Military-Humanitarian Ambiguities in Haiti
Chapter 9 Weaving a New Society in Cambodia: The Story of Monath
Chapter 10 "You Save My Life Today, But for What Tomorrow?" Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 11 Hard Choices after Genocide: Human Rights and Political Failures in Rwanda
Chapter 12 Refugee Camps, Population Transfers, and NGOs
Chapter 13 Bringing War Criminals to Justice during an Ongoing War
Chapter 14 Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes
Chapter 15 The Morality of Sanctions
Chapter 16 Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture
Chapter 17 A Future, If One Is Still Alive: The Challenge of the HIV Epidemic
Chapter 18 The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 19 Index