For aid workers, it is important to recognize both the limits and the power of their roles in conflict. Chapter 4, aids impact on conflict through resource. Anderson boulder, colo lynne rienner publishers, 1999, 171 pp. A brief description of seven steps the do no harm analytical framework was developed from the programming experience of many assistance workers. Anderson s 1999 book of the same name where the author cites an example of a situation where aid may have caused harm taking place in sudan. A principled approach to conflict sensitive do no harm.
How aid can support peaceor war lynne rienner, 1999 notes. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. In order to further the spread of the knowledge gained by the project, cda detailed the framework and its use in do no harm. Anderson, author of do no harm and other works youtube. The do no harm framework came from the experiences of people participating in cda consultations and feedback workshops. Based on broad experience of providing international assistance in conflict settings. Anyone interested in working with a ngo or donating money to a ngo should read this book. The do no harm project dnh has always taken an inductive approach, gathering the experiences of aid workers involved in many different kinds of programmes and looking, empirically, at how these programmes affect and are affected by the conflicts in which.
The do no harm handbook the framework for analyzing the. It calls for a redesign of assistance programmes, and argues that opportunities exist for aid workers to support the processes by which societies disengage from war. This book addresses how the experiences of past aid workers, specifically in response to war, can help improve aid in the future. Anderson cites the experiences of many aid providers in wartorn. How aid can support peace or war, mary anderson collects a compilation of narratives and reports from workers in the aid system who have assisted developing countries amidst war. Anderson, 9781555878344, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
Local communities say aid is too much, too fast mary. Lynne rienner publishers do no harm how aid can support. How aid can support peace or war 1 by anderson, mary b. What beneficiaries really think of international aid. Ana grier cutter, ethics and international affairs provide s. With the release of the book, the local capacities for peace project became the do no harm program. Anderson offers the development community an opportunity to, at the least, do no harm do no harm makes an important contribution to an ongoing discussion about how outsiders can play a productive role in preventing and resolving violent conflict. Mary anderson, founder of cda collaborative learning projects and author of do no harm and time to listen speaks frankly about what aid recipients and local communities told her about. Anderson offers the development community an opportunity to, at the least, do no harm do no harm makes an important. The neurosurgeon henry marsh, author of do no harm.