The NGO game

Post-conflict peacebuilding in the Balkans and beyond

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9902860
AutoresNoam Schimmel (0000-0002-5429-8813, University of Oxford, UK, and Future Generations University, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen94
Número4
Páginas933-935
Fecha de publicación2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iiy102
OpenAlexW2883176262
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

The NGO game is a detailed, original and substantive contribution to the critical literature on humanitarian and development aid. It provides evidence of major failures in the humanitarian and development aid sectors in post-conflict contexts that are structural, endemic and repetitive in nature, despite being increasingly evident and well documented. Patrice C. McMahon illustrates these failures using evidence from interviews, ethnographic observation, data analysis of financial expenditures and descriptions of development aid programming. This book should not be misconstrued as a critique of development and humanitarian aid generally and in all contexts. Its focus is specifically on post-conflict development and humanitarian aid in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo—the chapter on Kosovo is particularly clear and convincing. However, the author's observations point to larger problems in the post-conflict development and humanitarian aid sector that are not geographically limited to these regions and offer valuable lessons and cautions for the entire development and humanitarian aid sector

Armed conflict · Development aid · Development economics · Economics · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian crisis · Peacebuilding · Political science · Refugee · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development