HIST 508: Europe and Humanitarian Aid: Home

Topic for database search practice during library instruction session:

Analyse the balance between state and NGO aid efforts for famine relief in Ethiopia in the 1980s.

Some questions to consider:

• Who produced this source? Is the author’s biography (i.e., viewpoints and personal background) relevant to understanding this source? Did he or she have an agenda?
• When was this source created? Where? Is it representative of other sources created at the same time?
• Why did the author produce this source? For what audience and purpose?
• Is it a work of scholarship, fiction, art, or propaganda?

Group 1:

Human rights and food aid in Ethiopia : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations and the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, October 16, 1985. Washington : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986. Retrieved from: https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb8513323

Group 2:

Bello, G. I. (1990). The international politics of famine relief operations in ethiopia: A case study of the 1984-86 famine relief operations (Order No. U615376). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Retrieved from: https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/docview/1586023395?pq-origsite=summon

Group 3:

(November 26, 1984, UNITED STATES EDITION). A Five-Point Plan for Action. Newsweek. Retrieved from https://advance-lexis-com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3SJ4-FX50-0008-X52G-00000-00&context=1516831.

Group 4: 

Kissi, E. (2005). Beneath International Famine Relief in Ethiopia: The United States, Ethiopia, and the Debate over Relief Aid, Development Assistance, and Human Rights. African Studies Review, 48(2), 111-132. Retrieved from http://gateway.proquest.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:bsc:&rft_dat=xri:bsc:ft:iibp:211684770

Questions retrieved from: Writing Center Harvard College Writing Program Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard University WRITING CENTER BRIEF GUIDE SERIES A Brief Guide to Writing the History Paper