Between war and peace: humanitarian assistance in violent urban settings
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Between war and peace: humanitarian assistance in violent urban settings.
Cities are fast becoming new territories of violence. The humanitarian consequences of many criminally violent urban settings are comparable to those of more traditional wars, yet despite the intensity of the needs, humanitarian aid to such settings is limited. The way in which humanitarian needs are typically defined, fails to address the problems of these contexts, the suffering they produce ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Disasters
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0361-3666
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01178.x