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Aid and violence, with special reference to Sierra Leone
1Development Studies Department, London School of Economics and Political Science. d.keen@lse.ac.uk
Disasters
|January 6, 1999
Abstract:
This paper looks at how departures from humanitarian principles can be accommodated, legitimised and obscured within the international humanitarian system. It looks particularly at the case of Sierra Leone between 1991 and 1995. It analyses how misinformation about the causes and dynamics of violence and regarding the aid system contribute to the erosion of humanitarian principles.