The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and WarRoutledge, 17/06/2013 - 240 من الصفحات Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical action and difficult choices - whom to help and how. Their own feelings have to motivate action for others. But can they separate out their own selfish feelings and prejudices in such an emotive climate? How do they avoid being partial among those they are helping? Are they motivated by altruistic concern, or the power they experience or the attention they receive? Tony Vaux brings over 20 years experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency managers to the exploration of the conflicts between subjective impulses and objective judgements and the dilemmas relief workers contend with. |
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... able to share his thoughts with the public in this highly enlightening book. That, too, is a contribution to the cause of 'humanity'. Jean Drèze Delhi School of Economics Acknowledgements I would like to thank Oxfam for a grant vi FOREWORD.
... able to share his thoughts with the public in this highly enlightening book. That, too, is a contribution to the cause of 'humanity'. Jean Drèze Delhi School of Economics Acknowledgements I would like to thank Oxfam for a grant vi FOREWORD.
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... able to interpret what I am saying according to their own culture and set of assumptions. Indeed, the contrast may throw light on their own circumstances. This book is a kind of postmodern history in which the personal viewpoint ...
... able to interpret what I am saying according to their own culture and set of assumptions. Indeed, the contrast may throw light on their own circumstances. This book is a kind of postmodern history in which the personal viewpoint ...
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... able to forget their own failure and to ignore their reactions to an event that they felt unable to understand. They want to just carry on in their own way as if nothing had happened, and so, she said, 'They preach to me that I must ...
... able to forget their own failure and to ignore their reactions to an event that they felt unable to understand. They want to just carry on in their own way as if nothing had happened, and so, she said, 'They preach to me that I must ...
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... able to tackle the human biases which become so troublesome if they have to fight for their own dignity and principles through the lives and deaths of those they are supposed to help. I do not think the concept of humanity, 'concern for ...
... able to tackle the human biases which become so troublesome if they have to fight for their own dignity and principles through the lives and deaths of those they are supposed to help. I do not think the concept of humanity, 'concern for ...
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... able and good. For he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as ...
... able and good. For he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as ...
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A Golden Age of Humanitarianism? | 43 |
Impartiality and Selfrespect | 69 |
Vulnerability and Power | 93 |
Pride and Principle | 115 |
Emotion and Order | 137 |
Responsibility and Rights | 159 |
Mans Inhumanity | 183 |
Chapter 9 The Selfish Altruist | 201 |
Notes on the Sources | 213 |
Index | 224 |
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