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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... issues, while the aid worker is left with the task of converting public response into practical action. Yet the same mixture of motives and feelings persists. A feeling that 'I have been clever and they have been stupid' may ...
... issues, while the aid worker is left with the task of converting public response into practical action. Yet the same mixture of motives and feelings persists. A feeling that 'I have been clever and they have been stupid' may ...
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... issues into the open and to explore them dispassionately. For aid workers, there is plenty of scope to develop our own ideologies, to choose whom to help and whom to ignore, to enjoy a sense of power and to overlook the capacity of ...
... issues into the open and to explore them dispassionately. For aid workers, there is plenty of scope to develop our own ideologies, to choose whom to help and whom to ignore, to enjoy a sense of power and to overlook the capacity of ...
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... issue of care for others is absolutely fundamental to that culture. From the perspective of the reader, the question might be: 'Who am I today?' * * *As a preliminary question, we need to ask whether there is any agreed moral basis for ...
... issue of care for others is absolutely fundamental to that culture. From the perspective of the reader, the question might be: 'Who am I today?' * * *As a preliminary question, we need to ask whether there is any agreed moral basis for ...
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... issues. What I have learned is that, in terms of helping people, all the wisdom of principles, codes and standards is superseded by the simple concept of humanity, applied impartially and to the best of our ability. Governments will ...
... issues. What I have learned is that, in terms of helping people, all the wisdom of principles, codes and standards is superseded by the simple concept of humanity, applied impartially and to the best of our ability. Governments will ...
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... issues and the personal interests of politicians that I felt the meaning of the word desperately needed to be clarified. If voluntary agencies are to hand over the torch of leadership to governments, let us at least take stock of what ...
... issues and the personal interests of politicians that I felt the meaning of the word desperately needed to be clarified. If voluntary agencies are to hand over the torch of leadership to governments, let us at least take stock of what ...
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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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