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Kevin M. Cahill
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the…
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Includes essays that explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. This book explores threats…
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This is a practical guide to current technologies that can help relief and humanitarian aid workers. Designed to facilitate technology transfer to the humanitarian sector, the essays focus on areas…
The tragic death in Baghdad in 2003 of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, brought into bitter relief the challenges faced by peacekeepers and…
Part of a series that aims to understand the complex nature of international humanitarian action. This book is a report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in the…
Having had the privilege of working throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as in the great medical centers of Europe and the United States, the author presents the…
Provides a better understanding - both within and outside academia - of the multifaceted demands posed by humanitarian assistance programmes
This work covers issues such as early warning and preparedness, rapid health and physical needs assessments, recognizing and managing severe malnutrition, the unique needs of refugees and IDPs, security, exit…
Open Door: Art and Foreign Policy at the Rcsi.
An assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance.
Preventive Diplomacy explores the process of conflict prevention from humanitarian, economic, and political perspectives.
An international team of experts offer an assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance.
This work covers topics such as the history of humanitarian action, the scope of international humanitarian crises, developing a professional corps, team building, developing a common language, and funding international…
This book is a celebratory history, marking 25 years since the founding of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC).
Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow…
Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill…
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.
For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world: as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and…
Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world…
Analyses the tension between multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm in 20th century literature through the German writings of Kafka, Adorno, Tawada, Ozdamar, and Zaimoglu.
This volume casts a fresh light on many classical philosophical issues and brings Wittgensteinian ideas to bear on a number of current debates in which naturalism is playing a central…
Francis Mading Deng
In this brief but comprehensive book, Francis Deng offers a creative analysis of the situation, aimed at addressing, and hopefully resolving, the complex dilemmas confronting Sudan, Africa, and the international…
Analyzes global economic forecasts and the United Nations pattern of philanthropy
Children have a fundamental right to education, and to the protection that schools uniquely provide in the chaos that characterizes life for refugees and internally displaced persons. This book features…
Ten essays from world-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue in different ways the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human?
Foreword by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. –Front cover.
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650-1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies…
Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650-1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first…
