Humanitarian Hypocrisy: Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations

Placeholder author icon
By Andrea L. Everett *12

Published March 26, 2018

There are often huge disparities between governments’ stated commitment to protect civilians undertake peace operations and their willingness to allocate resources to see those commitments through. Humanitarian Hypocrisy (Cornell University Press) argues that political compromises lead governments to institute policies that try to help but overlook the most important needs of the individuals they are supposed to serve.

Paw in print

Image
The January 2026 cover of PAW, featuring a man and a woman and the headline "Empower Couple."
The Latest Issue

January 2026

Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.