Advocacy and research on attacks on healthcare have increased in recent decades, even if concrete action to prevent them has been inadequate. This book is a very timely and significant contribution to confronting this devastating issue. The author places attacks in an historical and legal context, provides a wealth of detail in the form of case studies and makes carefully thought-through recommendations. He also situates these attacks in a wider context: how the characteristics of individual conflicts influence different actors and how the attacks on healthcare fit into more generalized violence. This is all essential: the motivations and drivers behind attacks have to be understood if they are going to be prevented.
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