Choosing the Lesser Evil: Understanding Decision-Making in Humanitarian Aid NGOs.(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-SEP-07

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COPYRIGHT 2007 Professors World Peace Academy

CHOOSING THE LESSER EVIL: UNDERSTANDING DECISION-MAKING IN HUMANITARIAN AID NGOS

Liesbet Heyse

Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007

239 pp., hardcover, $99.95

As Thomas Ward wrote in "The Political Economy of NGOs and Human Security," (IJWP, Vol. XXIX No.1) "Although the role that NGOs can play in promoting peace may remain limited because of the complexity of the roots of conflict and the nature of the actors involved, it is clear that NGOs are assuming a more central role in this area and in advancing human security ... NGOs have come into the public's attention as potentially important independent vehicles that can assist in conflict resolution and in promoting human security."

There has been an increasing analysis of the role that NGOs play in...

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