A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity. By Jan Egeland.
2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jrs/fep004
ISSN1471-6925
Autores ResumoWhen Jan Egeland was 17, he wrote to a Catholic priest in Colombia: ‘I graduate from high school next summer and I am more than ready for something very different from my overprotected Norwegian affluence’ (p. 36). Thus began an extraordinary odyssey that grew from labouring in a peasant cooperative in Santander, to negotiating with the FARC and ELN on behalf of the UN and government of Colombia, initiating the Oslo peace accords in the Middle East, overseeing the world's largest relief operation following the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, and coordinating UN humanitarian aid to millions caught up in devastating conflicts in Darfur, the Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Uganda. But the book is more than a memoir from the former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Norwegian State Secretary. It is an analysis of the successes and failures of international intervention in humanitarian crises, written by someone on the front line, from the contrasting perspectives of government, private organizations and the United Nations.
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