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An independent, international humanitarian organization, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

An independent, international humanitarian organization, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Founded in 1971, its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.

Founded in 1971, its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland

Fabrice Weissman, e. Despite this shortcoming, In the Shadow of Just Wars is a provocative and challeng-ing book produced by an organization com-mitted to the realization of universal.

Fabrice Weissman, ed. (Ithaca, . The book consists of a series of articles writ-ten by members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in conjunction with writers, journal-ists, social scientists, and others who have had some collaborative experience with the work of the organization.

Medecins Sans Frontieres, Fabrice Weissman. While military intervention in Iraq was being planned, humanitarian organizations were offered US government funds to join the Coalition and operate under the umbrella of "Operation Iraqi Freedom". In Kosavo, Timor, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, NGOs had previously been asked to join in "just" wars. Indeed many aid agencies cooperated eagerly, subordinating their specific aims to the greater goal of "peace, democracy and human rights". Few Afghans or Sierra Leoneans regret the interventions

for a renewed commitment to an old ideal: a humanitarianism that defies a politics of expendable lives.

In this book, international experts and members of Medecins Sans Frontieres analyze the way. these issues have crystallized over the five years spanning the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.

In the Shadow of Just Wars: Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action. Hurst & Co, London and Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Address for correspondence: Médecins Sans Frontières France, 8 Rue Saint Sabin, Paris 75011, France. E-mail : <

In In the Shadows of ‘Just Wars’: Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action, e. The Meaning of Living in South Africa: Violence, Condemnation and Community After 5–11.

In In the Shadows of ‘Just Wars’: Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action, ed. Fabrice Weissman, 341–356. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Harrell-Bond, Barbara. Forced Migrations Studies Programme. Migration Studies Working Paper Series No. 39, July 2008. Landau, Loren . and Jean Pierre Misago. Who to Blame and What’s to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa. Africa Spectrum 44 (1): 99–110.