Blinded by Humanity: Inside the Un's Humanitarian Operations - Paperbackby Martin Barber (Author), Lord Malloch Brown (Foreword by) How to respond effectively to humanitarian crises is one of the most pressing and seemingly intractable problems facing the United Nations. Martin Barber, for many years a senior UN official and with decades of humanitarian experience, here argues that the explanation for UN 'failures' or only partial successes lies not with any lack of idealism or good intentions but with the constraints