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The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? Linda Polman
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

Linda Polman's The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? To bring home an innocent American from North America, our distinguished former president recently made the journey to Pyongyang -- the only president we have humble enough to undertake such a humanitarian mission. Polman, a Dutch journalist, has travelled the world and witnessed the real effects of humanitarian aid efforts. What's wrong with humanitarian aid? What counts as humanitarian aid? In a recent article in the New Yorker, writer Philip Gourevitch asks: Can you provide humanitarian aid without facilitating conflicts? The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid, by Linda Polman. Linda Polman, The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?, Metropolitan Books, 2010; $24.00, 229 pp. Miss Polman is not the first reporter or chastened aid worker who has come to that conclusion, yet every year the money spent on humanitarian and development aid increases—she says the idea of donor fatigue is a myth—and what she calls “the crisis caravan” rolls on. The short answer to the question posed by Dutch reporter Linda Polman in the would be better than what we are doing now. Last week I finished Crisis Caravan by Linda Polman. The paradox of humanitarian action), Linda Dolman (The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?), and David Rieff (A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis). According to a new book by the Dutch writer Linda Polman,The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?, humanitarianism has become a massive and rapidly growing industry. As journalist Linda Pullman highlights in her book What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid: The Crisis Caravan, misunderstanding and mismanagement on the part of aid organizations often contributes to the chaos.