Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "Cold War"
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Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ... -
Humanitarianisms in context
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-03-16)This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus ...