Description: This book shows how stories of suffering are created and their impact on global politics.
Review Quotes: "As humanitarian workers and human rights activists we owe it to those most in need that they are protected against well-intended incompetence. Through a generation of humanitarian and human rights work I have seen how the difference between good and bad action is measured in lives lost or saved. We therefore need this excellent, critical, and systematic review of humanitarianism and suffering in our time.
--Jan Egeland, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2003-2006)