NEW YORK -- One of the greatest challenges facing governments and international aid agencies today is how to respond better to humanitarian disasters.
A just released U.S. State Department internal report entitled "Lessons Learned from Humanitarian Interven- tions Abroad" provides some important insights into the shortcoming of previous intervention efforts and ways to avoid them.
The directors of the study are Morton Halperin, head of the policy planning staff at the State Department and James Michel, counselor for the U.S. Agency for International Development.