The history and practice of humanitarian intervention and aid in Africa /

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Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	xv, 250 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Humanitarian intervention -- Africa -- History. Human security -- Africa -- History. Human rights -- Africa -- History. Humanitarian assistance -- Africa -- History. Human rights. Human security. Humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian intervention. Africa. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9287433

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Other authors / contributors:	Everill, Bronwen, 1983- Kaplan, Josiah David, 1983-
ISBN:	9781137270016 (hardback) 1137270012 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Ambitious humanitarian military, economic and social interventions, undertaken by Western actors acting in defence of liberal values, have today become indelible features of Africa's engagement with the world. Yet the continent's long, complex historical relationship with Western humanitarian intervention, dating back to the origins of imperial engagement with the continent, is often overlooked in the study of contemporary African security and development issues. This volume responds to a need for greater historical grounding in the study of humanitarian intervention, by bringing together a wide and interdisciplinary range of contributors who explore the history, theory, and practice of humanitarian intervention in Africa. In doing so, it traces continuities in the discourse and practice of the concept as it evolved from the colonial past to the present, and argues that the West's colonial relationship with Africa is crucial for better understanding humanitarian intervention and how the legacies of colonialism continue to impact emerging international policy."--

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Enduring Humanitafianisms in Africa
1. Freetown, Frere Town and the Kat River Settlement: Nineteenth-Century Humanitarian Intervention and Precursors to Modern Refugee Camps
2. Public Health or Public Good? Humanitarian Agendas and the Treatment of Leprosy in Uganda
3. Contraband Charity: German Humanitarianism in Contemporary Kenya
4. 'Reading' British Armed Humanitarian Intervention in Sierra Leone, 2000-2
5. Humanitarian Intervention in the Horn of Africa
6. The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Land of Humanitarian Interventions
7. Humanitarian Aspects of Interventions by the United Nations in Southern Africa
8. The Nigerian Civil War and 'Humanitarian Intervention'
9. Building State Effectiveness: Evolving Donor Approaches to Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
10. Beyond Humanitarian Imperialism: The Dubious Origins of 'Humanitarian Intervention' and Some Rules for its Future
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

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