Book: Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine – A Practical Guide
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-2927-1
Editors: James M. Ryan, Adriaan P.C.C. Hopperus Buma, Charles W. Beadling, Aroop Mozumder, David M. Nott, Norman M. Rich, David MacGarty
ISBN: 978-1-4471-2926-4 (Print) 978-1-4471-2927-1 (Online)

Excerpt from Foreword
…It seems then that wars, confl icts and humanitarian calamities will be exercising our thoughts for the coming decades at least. The world too has become a dangerous place for humanitarian volunteers who face kidnap and murder by extremists and criminals with little sympathy for humanitarian ideals. The term “failed states” has entered the language of diplomacy, anthropology, politics and the media. When we edited the fi rst edition in 2002, we knew much of this – what we did not know was how the problem would grow and threaten to engulf us. Never has there been a greater need to prepare and plan for humanitarian interventions in a wide variety of hostile environments. Never has there been a greater need for properly trained humanitarians to work in these challenging environments. We hope that the third edition of this textbook will play a role in this preparation…