Humanitarian Action and the 'Global War on Terror': A Review of Trends and Issues
The second in an annual series reviewing key trends in humanitarian policy, this report focuses on the implications for humanitarian action of the global ‘war on terrorism’. For this purpose, its main chapters consider the following issues:
• Humanitarian action and the ‘war on terror’: A review of issues
• International law and the ‘war on terror’
• Humanitarian NGOs: Challenges and trends
• Humanitarianism and Islam after 11 September
• Afghanistan and the ‘war on terror’
Drawing on contributions by commissioned specialists providing personal reflections on specific themes, the report places them within a wider review of the literature concerning the origins, nature and dynamics of the war on terrorism.
