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Author |
: Daniel G. Maxwell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1849045755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781849045759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Famine in Somalia by : Daniel G. Maxwell
Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while donors counter-terrorism policies led to cuts and criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from the production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself was the result of the failure to quickly respond to these events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyses the famine: the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods.It also examines the humanitarian response, including actors that had not previously been particularly visible in Somalia-from Turkey, the Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide.
Author |
: Daniel G. Maxwell |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0190499389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190499389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Famine in Somalia by : Daniel G. Maxwell
Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while the donor's counter-terrorism policies criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from the production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself was the result of the failure to quickly respond to these events -- and was thus largely human-made. This book analyses the famine: the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods. It also examines the humanitarian response, including actors that had not previously been particularly visible in Somalia-- from Turkey, the Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide.
Author |
: Edward R. Ricciuti |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 72 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015029905588 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Somalia by : Edward R. Ricciuti
Explores the crisis of famine and war in Somalia by tracing its evolution through the nation's history and politics.
Author |
: Alexander De Waal |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253211581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253211583 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Famine Crimes by : Alexander De Waal
Who is responsible for the failures? African generals and politicians are the prime culprits for creating famines in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire, but western donors abet their authoritarianism, partly through imposing structural adjustment programmes.
Author |
: Laurence Binet |
Publisher |
: Médecins Sans Frontières |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2013-10-03 |
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: |
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: |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN "Military-Humanitarian" Intervention by : Laurence Binet
Author |
: Judith Gardner |
Publisher |
: CIIR |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745322085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745322087 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Somalia - The Untold Story by : Judith Gardner
Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.
Author |
: Alex de Waal |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2017-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509524709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509524703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mass Starvation by : Alex de Waal
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.
Author |
: Richard Winship Stewart |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112059857679 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The United States Army in Somalia, 1992-1994 by : Richard Winship Stewart
Author |
: Lidwien Kapteijns |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2012-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812207583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812207580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clan Cleansing in Somalia by : Lidwien Kapteijns
In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror—wounding, raping, and killing—to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia. Manipulating clan sentiment, they succeeded in turning ordinary civilians against neighbors, friends, and coworkers. Although this episode of organized communal violence is common knowledge among Somalis, its real nature has not been publicly acknowledged and has been ignored, concealed, or misrepresented in scholarly works and political memoirs—until now. Marshaling a vast amount of source material, including Somali poetry and survivor accounts, Clan Cleansing in Somalia analyzes this campaign of clan cleansing against the historical background of a violent and divisive military dictatorship, in the contemporary context of regime collapse, and in relationship to the rampant militia warfare that followed in its wake. Clan Cleansing in Somalia also reflects on the relationship between history, truth, and postconflict reconstruction in Somalia. Documenting the organization and intent behind the campaign of clan cleansing, Lidwien Kapteijns traces the emergence of the hate narratives and code words that came to serve as rationales and triggers for the violence. However, it was not clans that killed, she insists, but people who killed in the name of clan. Kapteijns argues that the mutual forgiveness for which politicians often so lightly call is not a feasible proposition as long as the violent acts for which Somalis should forgive each other remain suppressed and undiscussed. Clan Cleansing in Somalia establishes that public acknowledgment of the ruinous turn to communal violence is indispensable to social and moral repair, and can provide a gateway for the critical memory work required from Somalis on all sides of this multifaceted conflict.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 11 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:986525754 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Instruments of Pain (III) by :
"History is at risk of tragically repeating itself. Once again, conflict-wracked Somalia is faced with mass hunger, just six years after a man-made famine took the lives of 250,000 people, mostly children, and 25 years after another killed 300,000, triggering a U.S. and UN intervention without which many more would have perished. An estimated 6.2 million people -- half the country's population -- are in dire need; over three million are in a 'crisis' or 'emergency' situation, faced with death due to hunger and disease. While governmental and international responses have been relatively swift and relief efforts better coordinated (in part, because of lessons learned from the 2011 famine), many former limitations and challenges remain. Today, Somalis are starving because funding is insufficient and because access denial and insecurity impede delivery; most of all, they are starving because chronic conflict has destroyed their savings and ability to cope with periodic drought. The government and its international partners must tackle these immediate impediments and do more to stabilise the country lest yet another famine loom in the not-too-distant future"--Publisher's web site.