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The Golden Fleece
The Golden Fleece delves into questions that are rarely asked and seldom answered. It examines the impact of manipulation on the effectiveness of humanitarian action. The tension between fundamental humanitarian values – the prioritization of life-saving over all other considerations – and political or economic agendas is not new. Relief work has long been subject to manipulation by governments, warlords, public opinion, disembodied realpolitik, and to the calculations of humanitarians themselves. As Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire notes in his Foreward, “the sacrosanct principles of neutrality and humanitarian space have been used and abused by many in ways which ultimately benefit killers rather than the victims of armed conflict.”
Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins
By Catley, A., Lind, J., and Scoones, I. (2013) Development at teh Margins. Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa. In: Catley, A., Lind, J. and Scoones, I. (eds.) Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins Routledge, Abingdon and New York
Through Veterans’ Eyes
Larry Minear, a researcher at the Center until his retirement in 2006, has published a book, Through Veterans’ Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience (Potomac Books, 2010). The narrative is based on interviews conducted by Minear himself, supplemented with eye-witness … Read More
Shaping the Humanitarian World
By Peter Walker and Daniel Maxwell. 2009. Series on Global Institutions. London: Routledge.
Using Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA) to inform policy: Lessons from Ethiopia
By D. Abebe, A. Catley, B. Admassu, and G. Bekele. (2009). In I. Scoones, J. Thomson, and R Chambers (eds.), Farmer First Revisited. Practical Action Publishing, 296-300
After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan
By Neamattolah Nojumi, Dyan Mazurana, and Elizabeth Stites. 2008. Rowman & Littlefield: Oxford & Boulder.
The Economic Life of Refugees
By Karen Jacobsen. Kumarian Press, 2005.
Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping
By Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts, and Jane Parpart (eds.). 2005. Rowman & Littlefield: Oxford & Boulder.
Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role
By Christopher Barrett and Daniel Maxwell. 2005. London: Routledge Press.
Where are the Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives During and After War
By Susan McKay and Dyan Mazurana. 2004. International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, Montréal, Canada. (Published in English and French)

