Humanitarian groups have helped populations-in-crisis for centuries. But, with emergency aid now increasingly professionalized and sophisticated, aid workers find themselves facing many new practical and philosophical ambiguities. Kojo explores how past lessons are being applied to today's conflicts.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2007-05-23/humanitarian-intervention-lessons-learned
Humanitarian Intervention - Lessons Learned
Listen Wednesday, May. 23, 2007 at 1:06 p.m. in Conflict, Politics
CD or 
TRANSCRIPT of this program.
Guests
John Norris
Chief of Political Affairs, United Nations Mission in Nepal; author "The Disaster Gypsies: Humanitarian Workers in the World's Deadliest Conflicts" (Praeger Security International)
Alex De Waal
Program Director, Social Sciences Research Council; and Fellow, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
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