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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... action. The reason for this is that, contrary to popular perception, humanitarian action is often compromised, or even corrupted, by very different motives. We are not talking here of humanitarian action on the part of national ...
... action. The reason for this is that, contrary to popular perception, humanitarian action is often compromised, or even corrupted, by very different motives. We are not talking here of humanitarian action on the part of national ...
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... action. Yet the same mixture of motives and feelings persists. A feeling that 'I have been clever and they have been stupid' may convertitself into a tendency to treat people as if they have no worth or ability at all. It reinforces ...
... action. Yet the same mixture of motives and feelings persists. A feeling that 'I have been clever and they have been stupid' may convertitself into a tendency to treat people as if they have no worth or ability at all. It reinforces ...
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... actions cannot be guided simultaneously by seven different principles. Instead of simplifying the principles and exploring more fundamental values, the tendency in the last two decades has been to expand and elaborate the principles ...
... actions cannot be guided simultaneously by seven different principles. Instead of simplifying the principles and exploring more fundamental values, the tendency in the last two decades has been to expand and elaborate the principles ...
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... action is preferable to the intervention of governments. Voluntary action has its place; so too does paid and accountable political action. The new world order in which governments now operate may be better at exerting greater political ...
... action is preferable to the intervention of governments. Voluntary action has its place; so too does paid and accountable political action. The new world order in which governments now operate may be better at exerting greater political ...
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... actions over the course of the years. I thought as deeply as I could about the ten years from 1984 when I had been Oxfam's emergencies coordinator, assessing humanitarian crises and organizing responses in conjunction with colleagues in ...
... actions over the course of the years. I thought as deeply as I could about the ten years from 1984 when I had been Oxfam's emergencies coordinator, assessing humanitarian crises and organizing responses in conjunction with colleagues in ...
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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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