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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... of humanitarianism is racism. Aid agency staff find it hard to accept that black people exploit each other and tell lies just as white people do, and that greed is not the sole preserve of cigar-smoking white 8 THE SELFISH ALTRUIST.
... of humanitarianism is racism. Aid agency staff find it hard to accept that black people exploit each other and tell lies just as white people do, and that greed is not the sole preserve of cigar-smoking white 8 THE SELFISH ALTRUIST.
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... staff declared that they would stop all aid programmes until the Taliban allowed women to participate in the programmes on a more or less equal basis with men. The Taliban would not give way, nor would Oxfam, and hundreds of thousands ...
... staff declared that they would stop all aid programmes until the Taliban allowed women to participate in the programmes on a more or less equal basis with men. The Taliban would not give way, nor would Oxfam, and hundreds of thousands ...
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... staff viewed me in the same sort of way. I was a distant and wealthy eminence living in the lap of luxury and inclined to put on too much weight. Time holds the present as a mirror to the past and makes us learn what we have experienced ...
... staff viewed me in the same sort of way. I was a distant and wealthy eminence living in the lap of luxury and inclined to put on too much weight. Time holds the present as a mirror to the past and makes us learn what we have experienced ...
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... staff should identify and build on local rather than external resources, with consultation and involvement of the affected local population.' In the end, that remains the most basic lesson that I have learned and relearned. Everything ...
... staff should identify and build on local rather than external resources, with consultation and involvement of the affected local population.' In the end, that remains the most basic lesson that I have learned and relearned. Everything ...
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المحتوى
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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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