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Developing a prototype handbook for monitoring and evaluating Department of Defense humanitarian as…
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Marla C. Haims |
Humanitarian assistance has long been a part of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in direct support of the broader strategic goals underlying U.S. policy, such as reconstruction and stabilization.… |
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Saving Haiti's heritage
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Richard Kurin |
"The aim of the Haiti Cultural Recovery Project was to rescue, recover, safeguard, and help restore Haitian cultural materials damaged and endangered by the January 12, 2010 earthquake and its afterm… |
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The Big Truck That Went By
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Jonathan M. Katz |
Published to glowing reviews, The Big Truck That Went By is a crucial look at a signal failure of international aid.
Jonathan M. Katz was the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti o… |
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The lucky few
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Jan K. Herman |
"As the Vietnam War reached its tragic climax in the last days of April 1975, a task force of U.S. Navy ships cruised off South Vietnam's coast. The Lucky Few focuses on the role of USS Kirk in the r… |
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Fierce enigmas
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Srinath Raghavan |
"South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Rag… |
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Three cups of deceit
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Jon Krakauer |
Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools… |
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To be a friend is fatal
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Kirk W. Johnson |
"In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID’s only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted … |
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They are all my family
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John P. Riordan |
"In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War in April 1975, as Americans fled and their Vietnamese allies and employees prepared for the worst, John Riordan, the assistant manager of Citibank's Saig… |
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Se chan ŭi ch'a
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Greg Montenson |
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through… |
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Stones into schools
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Greg Mortenson |
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg … |
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