We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in
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Linda Polman's We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out with the UN goes in is an eye-opening account of peace-keeping operations across the globe. In recent years our newspapers and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0141012900
ISBN13:9780141012902
Release Date:March 2004
Publisher:Penguin Group
Length:234 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Incisive Journalism
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Polman provides an eye-opening account of how the UN really works, how powerful nations manipulate it for their own gain, and who pays the price. She was on hand during the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and so many other humanitarian disasters to which the UN tried its best to respond with always mixed results--sometimes just bad results--and so is able to provide first-hand accounts and insightful, boots-on-the-ground reportage. By providing a window on the politics that drive the UN, the reader comes to understand why a well-intentioned UN always seems ineffectual when it's most needed. This book is singly the most harrowing piece of journalism I've ever read and it indelibly changed my understanding of how the world works. I'd recommend it to anyone who is serious about understanding world affairs.
Insightful and thoughtful without being reactionary
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
One of the main things I took from this book was just how powerless the UN really is: it's a forum for countries to work together, but if the member countries don't want to do something, there's nothing the UN can do.Linda Polman's personal insight into what happened on the ground in Haiti and in Africa is gut-wrenching, but her journalistic integrity is fulfilled by researching what happened in the UN while she was on the ground amidst the attrocities.A must-read for anyone who wants to know how the UN works and why it reacts the way it does to attrocities around the world.
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