The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and WarEarthscan, 2013 - 241 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 climat. |
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... asked what were their priority needs , people invariably replied : " Stop the war . Stop the war " . In a community of genuinely democratic societies , this popular revulsion against war is likely to receive a much stronger hearing than ...
... asked what were their priority needs , people invariably replied : " Stop the war . Stop the war " . In a community of genuinely democratic societies , this popular revulsion against war is likely to receive a much stronger hearing than ...
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... asked myself what was the fundamental principle that had guided my better 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 ...
... asked myself what was the fundamental principle that had guided my better 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 ...
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... asking her to forgive and forget . What they mean , she said , is that they want to be able to forget their own failure and to ignore their reactions to an event that they felt unable to under- stand . They want to just carry on in ...
... asking her to forgive and forget . What they mean , she said , is that they want to be able to forget their own failure and to ignore their reactions to an event that they felt unable to under- stand . They want to just carry on in ...
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... - tional life . I was 22 . My boss asked me to write a two - page summary of world statistics on poverty and then tore apart what I wrote . It was not the cosy friendliness I had expected . The exacting boss treated poverty INTRODUCTION 13.
... - tional life . I was 22 . My boss asked me to write a two - page summary of world statistics on poverty and then tore apart what I wrote . It was not the cosy friendliness I had expected . The exacting boss treated poverty INTRODUCTION 13.
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Kosovo The Loss of Impartiality | 19 |
Ethiopia A Golden Age of Humanitarianism? | 45 |
Sudan Impartiality and Selfrespect | 71 |
Mozambique Vulnerability and Power | 95 |
Afghanistan Pride and Principle | 117 |
Somalia Emotion and Order | 139 |
Azerbaijan and Bosnia Responsibility and Rights | 161 |
The Rwanda Genocide Mans Inhumanity | 185 |
The Selfish Altruist | 203 |
Notes on the Sources | 215 |
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