Disaster Network Books

In the Shadows of Just Wars

Violence, politics and humanitarian action

MSF

One of the most virulent issues of modern humanitarianism is the degree of separation between military interventions and the humanitarian community that come in front, alongside and behind them. Humanitarianism was still smarting from self-deprecation after Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo when Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror ripped a big whole in the established ethics of intervention. This analysis is urgently needed as one of the original 'balls-of-steel' moral stalwarts faces deep self-questioning.