Introduction French Colonial Documentary

Several themes present in this book crystallized unexpectedly when I attended a March 2006 lecture by Nicolas Torrenté, the U.S. executive director of Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF), at the University of California–Santa Barbara, where I currently teach. Torrenté presente...

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Published inFrench Colonial Documentary p. vii
Main Author Bloom, Peter J
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 12.03.2008
EditionNED - New edition
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Summary:Several themes present in this book crystallized unexpectedly when I attended a March 2006 lecture by Nicolas Torrenté, the U.S. executive director of Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF), at the University of California–Santa Barbara, where I currently teach. Torrenté presented a survey of humanitarian actions that MSF—winner of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize and international humanitarian organization par excellence—undertakes in various regions of Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, the Middle East, and beyond. A primary argument justifying the work of MSF is the need for a narrow humanitarianism that involves assisting communities in
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