The Road to the Horizon. This is an interesting website – it’s meant to be a “dynamic e-book” with multiple contributors. I haven’t had time to explore much yet, but I can recommend the excellent piece on “So you want to be an aid worker.”
field life
The Serena
This is a firsthand account from someone at the Serena hotel during the bombing. Make sure to read the comments; there are interesting points in there. Let me say here and now though that the expats who implement international aid are fully aware of the ugly contradictions between our lives and the lives of the people we serve.