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1 Jeffrey Clark, Frustration and Failure: International Response to the Somali Crisis 1 (1992)

handle is hein.immigration/frufai0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Cornell University/Institute for African Development Conference on Somalia: Human Disaster and World Politics October 16, 1992 FRUSTRATION AND FAILURE: International Response to the Somali Crisis by JEFFREY CLARK Jeffrey Clark, Senior Advisor United States Committee for Refugees 202/347-3507 It is a pleasure to be here on the campus of Cornell University and to have my initial visit associated with the commemoration of World Food Day - an annual celebration with which I have long been involved through my work for the House Select Committee on Hunger. I want to first congratulate the organizers of this program on a job well done and to thank them for including me in the discussions on a subject as important as the horrible crisis which wracks Somalia and haunts people of conscience around the world. It is my belief that one of the contributing factors to the catastrophic conditions now gripping Somalia is the lack of attention paid not just to Somalia but Africa in general in this country. The relative absence of knowledge and understanding of African issues, problems and opportunities reduces the required political mobilization in time of crisis that determines the generosity of official U.S. - and often by extension UN - relief assistance as well as the vigor of diplomatic and political initiatives. Efforts such as this 1

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