Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History

Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps; Lasse Heerten; Arua Oko Omaka; Kevin O'Sullivan; Bertrand Taithe

doi:10.7227/JHA.045

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (Dec 2020)

Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History

Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps,
Lasse Heerten,
Arua Oko Omaka,
Kevin O'Sullivan,
Bertrand Taithe

Affiliations

Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps: Author of L’Humanitaire en guerre civile: La crise du Biafra (1967–1970) (2018)
Lasse Heerten: Author of The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering (2017)
Arua Oko Omaka: Author of The Biafran Humanitarian Crisis, 1967–1970, International Human Rights and Joint Church Aid (2016)
Kevin O'Sullivan: Author of Ireland, Africa and the End of Empire: Small State Identity in the Cold War, 1955–75 (2012)
Bertrand Taithe: Historian of humanitarianism and director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7227/JHA.045
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 2
pp. 68 – 78

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This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan. The roundtable was organised and chaired by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.

Published in Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

ISSN: 2515-6411 (Online)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Social Sciences: Communities. Classes. Races: Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology: City population. Including children in cities, immigration
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