Kofi Annan called for the book to be banned, and debate was sparked about the future direction of the UN. Brilliantly written and mordantly funny, it is a book that continues to make waves.
Author: Andrew Thomson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446408256
Category: Political Science
Page: 320
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What it’s really like on the frontline of humanitarian aid It's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi's paths cross in Cambodia, from where their fates are to become inextricably bound. Over the coming years, their stories interweave through countries such as Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti - war-torn, lawless places where the intervention of the UN is needed like nowhere else. Driven by idealism, the three struggle to do the best they can, caught up in an increasingly tangled web of bureaucracy and ineffectual leadership. As disillusionment sets in, they attempt to keep hold of their humanity through black humour, revelry and 'emergency sex'. Brutal and moving in equal measure, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) explores pressing global issues while never losing a sense of the personal. Deeply critical of the West's indifference to developing countries and the UN's repeated failure to intervene decisively, the book provoked massive controversy on its initial publication. Kofi Annan called for the book to be banned, and debate was sparked about the future direction of the UN. Brilliantly written and mordantly funny, it is a book that continues to make waves.
"You're listening to 99.9 FM MogadishuRockin' the Dish," American Armed Forces Radio announces, "Keep your head down and the volume up.
Author: Kenneth Cain
Publisher: Miramax
ISBN:
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 308
View: 478
"This is a true story about three friends trying to bring a bit of decency to some of the most savage and indecent spots on our planet." Back cover.
Author: Llewellyn Johns
Publisher:
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Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson, Emergency Sex and
Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth (New York: Miramax,
2004), p. 88. 8. Kenneth Cain, Interview with Robin Lustig, The Connection,
WBUR ...
Author: James Dawes
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674030273
Category: Political Science
Page: 304
View: 574
What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.
Three young staff members published Emergency Sex and Other Desperate
Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth, detailing their demoralizing and even
sordid experiences in UN operations in crisis areas around the world.41 The
book ...
Author: John Allphin Moore, Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317288432
Category: Political Science
Page: 354
View: 491
With a fresh look at challenges to the UN in Syria, Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, the second edition of this successful text highlights new international trends toward global governance, holistic democracy and human development, and progress on peacebuilding and counterterrorism. A comprehensive guide to the world body's institutions, procedures, policies, specialized agencies, historic personalities, initiatives, and involvement in world affairs, The New United Nations is organized thematically, blending both topical and chronological explanations making reference to current scholarly terms and theories. New to this edition: Fully updated chapters and a new Introduction, including discussion of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, Human Rights Council, and Peacebuilding Commission; New sections on Special Rapporteurs and Special Procedures, the theory and practice of neoliberalism, the UN’s endorsement of the "Responsibility to Protect," and Contact Groups; Unique special section on the student Model United Nations experience; Coverage of the UN’s fifteen-year assessment of the Millennium Development Goals and the consequent approval of the Sustainable Development Goals; and eResources with supportive materials and documents.
Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thompson's collaborative memoir of
their years working for the UN, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures)
(2006), contains the same high-tension brushes with danger and death, bouts ...
Author: Rebecca Jinks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474256953
Category: History
Page: 280
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This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide; and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream representations – the majority – largely replicate the representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human society. By contrast, the more engaged representations – often, but not always, originating from those who experienced genocide – tend to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence.
... 324 Two Souls Indivisible , 301 - 2 Virginia Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , 94
Underdogs The Boys of Winter , 10 - 11 A Measure of Endurance , 334
Seabiscuit , 12 United Nations Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures ,
17 Urban Life 8 ...
Author: Sarah Statz Cords
Publisher: Libraries Unltd Incorporated
ISBN:
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 460
View: 438
Explores the genres and sub-genres of nonfiction and provides an annotated bibliography of more than five hundred popular nonfiction titles, organized according to genre with a focus on titles published in the last decade.
The Paradox of Humanitarian Action ( Ithaca : NY : Cornell University Press ,
2002 ) , and Kenneth Cain , Heidi Postlewait , and Andrew Thomson , Emergency
Sex ( and Other Desperate Measures ) : True Stories from a War Zone ( London ...
Author: Didier Fassin
Publisher:
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Category: Political Science
Page: 403
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The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere lives to be rescued. From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protect human lives--however and wherever endangered--has given rise to a new form of humanitarian government that moves from one crisis to the next, applying the same battery of technical expertise (from military logistics to epidemiological risk management to the latest social scientific tools for "good governance") and reducing people with particular histories and hopes to mere lives to be rescued. This book explores these contemporary states of emergency. Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency examines historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions common today. It addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, describing both differences and similarities, and examines the moral and political consequences of these generalized states of emergency and the new form of government associated with them.
JENNY FELDMAN BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER nternational aid workers are a
strange , often marvelous breed — a case in point being the authors of
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures ( Miramax Books ) : Kenneth
Cain , a ...
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... on many other fronts in 2004 , most prominently in the publication of a series of
graphic memoirs , titled Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures , written
jointly by three UN employees : Andrew Thomson , a medical doctor and son of ...
Author: Marcus F. Franda
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780742553330
Category: Political Science
Page: 257
View: 206
The United Nations is confronting a severe crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Its capabilities have been called into question amid a rash of recent scandals and charges of leadership mismanagement, bureaucratic ineptitude, and corrupt activities. Current world opinion seems to express elevated concern about the organization's ability to deal with the complexity of international relations in the new millennium. Despite six decades of survival, its membership still appears unable to maintain a consistent focus or set of practices to pursue common goals. The United Nations in the Twenty-First Century analyzes the significance of the many forces and events affecting the UN's efforts at reform. It provides a detailed examination of these processes for all of the major UN organs and agencies, including chapters on the Secretaries-General, the Secretariat, the General Assembly, the Security Council, and ECOSOC. The chapters on the Secretaries-General are the only detailed discussion that compares, contrasts, and evaluates the tenures of the seven people who have headed the UN. The book's concluding chapters focus on Kofi Annan's reform agenda as it relates to previous UN reform experiences and assess the future impact of recent UN-related scandals and charges of mismanagement.
Cain et al . , Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures ; Edwards , “
Imagining the Other in Cambodian Nationalist Discourse before and during the
UNTAC Period ” ; J . Jordens , “ Persecution of Cambodia ' s Ethnic Vietnamese ...
Author: United Nations University
Publisher: United Nations Univ
ISBN:
Category: Political Science
Page: 292
View: 912
The deployment of a large number of soldiers, police officers and civilian personnel inevitably has various effects on the host society and economy, not all of which are in keeping with the peacekeeping mandate and intent or are easily discernible prior to the intervention. This book is one of the first attempts to improve our understanding of unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations, by bringing together field experiences and academic analysis. The aim of the book is not to discredit peace operations but rather to improve the way in which such operations are planned and managed.
Somalia is the kind of place where UNDP and other international expatriate
workers make fortunes . It is classified as hardship post . A Book to be published
by three field workers " Emergency Sex & Other Desperate Measures " speaks of
...
Author: Mohamed Osman Omar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Insurgency
Page: 272
View: 585
En forklaring på årsager og forfaldet af den somaliske borgerkrig
59 For contrasting personal accounts and views see Kenneth Cain , Heidi
Postlewait and Andrew Thomson , Emergency Sex and Other Desperate
Measures , Miramax Books 2004 , and Aidan Hartley , The Zanzibar Chest ,
Harper Perennial ...
Author: Conor Foley
Publisher: Verso Trade
ISBN:
Category: Political Science
Page: 266
View: 327
No Marketing Blurb
Blinkered chroniclers of Annan ' s failings in the mould of Kenneth Cain , author
of Emergency Sex ( And Other Desperate Measures ) in newspaper articles
bayed for Annan ' s blood when , as many of us see it , his alleged crimes
seemed to ...
Author: Osei G. Kofi
Publisher: Hello Africa Pub.
ISBN:
Category: Africa
Page: 453
View: 368
This is a title on Africa that tells it like it is.
Lars Mehlum , “ Alcohol and Stress in Norwegian United Nations Peacekeepers ,
” Military Medicine , October 1999 . 55 . Kenneth Cain , Heidi Postlewait , and
Andrew Thomson , Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures , New York ...
Author: Paul Rexton Kan
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
ISBN:
Category: Child soldiers
Page: 43
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The presence of drugged fighters is not unknown in the history of warfare. Yet widespread drug use on the battlefield is now part of protracted conflicts largely fought by nonprofessional combatants that take place in an international system characterized by the process of globalization. From marijuana, khat, hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine to looted pharmaceuticals, irregular fighters have found a ready supply of narcotics to consume for a variety of combat purposes. Such consumption has led to unpredictable fighting, the commission of atrocities, and to the prolongation of internal violence. The presence of intoxicated combatants will continue to be a feature of armed conflict and requires a fuller accounting to adequately prepare policymakers and military planners for future conflicts.
Read their stories in Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures ( New York
: Hyperion , 1991 ) . 13. H. Allen Orr's review of The Blank Slate in New York
Review of Books , 27 February 2002 , 20 , and the exchange of letters in New
York ...
Author: Richard J. Coleman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
ISBN:
Category: Philosophy
Page: 301
View: 389
Where could Mr Goon's nephew have disappeared to? Mr Goon has forbidden the Five Find-Outers from solving mysteries - so they decide to make one up for his nephew, Ern! But what will happen when Ern disappears, and their pretend mystery turns into a real one?
... John , Greenmantle , Oxford , Oxford University Press , 1999 Cain , Kenneth ,
Postlewait , Heidi and Thomson , Andrew , Emergency Sex ( and Other
Desperate Measures ) : True Stories from a War Zone , London , Ebury Press ,
2005 Calder ...
Author: Kevin Brown
Publisher: History PressLtd
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 288
View: 952
Graphic, first-hand accounts of the experiences of medical personnel on the front line
Emergency Sex ( and Other Desperate Measures ) : True Stories from a War
Zone . New York : Random House , 2004 . Calderisi , R . The Trouble with Africa :
Why Foreign Aid Isn ' t Working . New Haven , CT : Yale University Press , 2006 .
Author: Gérard Prunier
Publisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN:
Category: Africa, Central
Page: 529
View: 142
process)." "In From Genocide to Continental War Gerard Prunier describes in precise and chilling detail this massive yet little-known conflict, which became known as 'Africa's First World War'. It became a litmus test for the fragile state of the continent as Africans were struggling to usher in a new era as the twentieth century drew to a close." --Book Jacket.
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures : a True Story From Hell on Earth
. New York : Miramax Books . Expert Meeting on Private Military Contractors :
Status and State Responsibility for Their Actions ( Geneva : The University Centre
...
Author: Festus Boahen Aboagye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Africa
Page: 126
View: 194
The AU System does not shy away from its inglorious past that characterised the OAU from its inception in 1963 until the start of its transformation during the early 1990s. Coming of age at the height of the Cold War, the OAU was politically torn between competing East-West political ideologies that instilled fear among and between the newly independent African states. African leaders of that era, who were also founding fathers of the continental Organisation, were driven by an inordinate desire for power for safeguarding national independence and sovereignty. By extension, this resulted in many of them remaining in office for far longer than was necessary. Convinced of their mandate to safeguard Africa’s sovereignty, they sought to claim that they were the only ones bequeathed with love of country, sufficient wisdom and commitment to safeguard national independence.
... their unique group memoir , Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures ,
in which they recollect their experiences as ... SWEETS FOR THE SWEDES ,
AND OTHERS RELEASING ONE OF HER OWN Dancing until dark is the
traditional ...
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