Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
One doesn't necessarily have a mission.