
The Challenges of Famine Relief
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The Challenges of Famine Relief focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s¿the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis Deng and Larry Minear analyze the historical and political setting and the response by Sudan authorities and the international community.
The book outlines four problem areas exemplified in the response to each crisis: the external nature of famine relief, the relationship between relief activities and endemic problems, the coordination of such activities, and the ambivalence of the results.
The authors identify the many difficulties inherent in providing emergency relief to populations caught in circumstances of life-threatening famine. They show how such famine emergencies reflect the most extreme breakdown of social order and present the most compelling imperatives for international action. Deng and Minear also discuss how the international community, alerted by the media and mobilized by the Ethiopian famine, moved to fill the moral void left by the government and how outside organizations worked together to pressure Sudan's political authorities to be more responsive to these tragedies.
Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order. As recent developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union demonstrate, such humanitarian challenges of global dimensions are no longer confined to third world countries. As the international community apportions limited resources among a growing number of such challenges, more effective responses to crises such as those described in this book are imperative.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1. Famine: Causes and Responses
- The Geographic Context
- The Demographic Context
- The Political Context
- Poverty and Underdevelopment
- Official Attitudes
- Emerging Global Perspectives
- The Challenges
- 2. Drought-Induced Famine, 1983-86
- Genesis of the Emergency
- Intervening from Outside
- Framing the Context
- Coordinating Activities
- Evaluating the Results
- 3. Conflict-Related Famine, 1987-91
- Overview of Operation Lifeline Sudan
- Intervening from Outside
- Framing the Context
- Coordinating Activities
- Evaluating the Results
- 4. A Look to the Future
- The Generic Problems in Perspective
- New Horizons on Humanitarian Imperatives
- Needed Institutional Reforms
- Relief and the Prospects for Peace
- Concluding Reflections
- Appendix A: Persons Consulted for Office of Emergency Operations in Africa Evaluation
- Appendix B: Persons Consulted for Operation Lifeline Sudan Study
- Appendix C: Contributing Agencies
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- Q
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- W
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