War and Hunger: Rethinking International Responses to Complex EmergenciesBosnia, Somalia, Angola, Rwanda: these and other current conflicts involve not just civilian deaths as a result of acts of war, but also widespread hunger and even famine. UN agencies and many charitable organizations have tried to intervene in order to reduce the human suffering involved. But, as this thorough investigation reveals, they confront numerous difficulties and limitations. The authors explore ways in which warfare creates hunger. The cases of Angola, Sudan, Tigray, Eritrea, Mozambique and Somalia illuminate the nature of complex emergencies in situations of war. Other chapters focus on the reforms required of the UN's machinery, reassess the role of relief in time of war, and ask how the international community should respond to the new circumstances of post-Cold War international interventions. This authoritative book is centrally relevant to the difficult issues of policy, institutional reform and development of new human rights approaches which the international community must confront if more effective interventions are to be made. |
Contents
Introduction Joanna Macrae and Anthony Zwi | 1 |
The Use of Food as a Weapon II | 11 |
Towards a New Approach to Conflict and Famine | 20 |
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ACORD Africa Watch agencies agenda agricultural Angola areas assets Baggara Bahr el Ghazal Baidoa cent Children Fund civilian complex emergencies conflict countries crisis depopulation Dinka disasters donors drought Duffield economic effects Eritrea Ethiopia example famine farming food aid food security forces gender grain groups highlands households human rights humanitarian assistance humanitarian crises humanitarian emergencies hunger ICRC impact important Institute international community international relief intervention labour land land mines livelihood livestock London Luanda major ment military mimeo Mogadishu movements Mozambique NGOs northern Operation Restore Hope organisations Oxfam Oxford peace peacekeeping political population production protection rebel recovery refugees rehabilitation relations relief aid relief operations relief programmes Renamo Report resolution response role rural Save the Children Security Council situations social Somalia southern Sudan SPLA starvation strategies structures Sudanese survival Tigray TPLF UN's UNICEF United Nations victims violence vulnerability Waal women