Abstract:International development assistance, humanitarian relief and human rights interventions, like many other noble human endeavours are inherently political and liable to have unexpected and/or unintended, positive or negative outcomes. Since Mary Anderson's seminal work Do No Harm (Lynne Rienner, 1999) highlighted the inadvertent and harmful effects of relief and development assistance in conflict zones, there has been greater consciousness amongst individual aid workers and relief and development agencies of … Show more
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