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Aid in Danger: The Perils and Promise of HumanitarianismLarissa Fast *
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2015
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- International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 96 , Issue 894: Sexual violence in armed conflict , June 2014 , pp. 641 - 648
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- Copyright © icrc 2015
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7 Ibid., p. 67.
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27 Ibid., p. 193.
28 For a critical analysis of the event, see Eleanor Davey, “Memorialising Humanitarians”, History & Humanitarianism, 19 August 2014, available at: http://aidhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/memorialising-humanitarians/.