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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... called , goes down quite well with sensation - hungry read- ers , and a little bit of sensation is perhaps necessary to draw attention to the issues involved . But this adversarial approach does not do jus- tice to the complexities of ...
... called , goes down quite well with sensation - hungry read- ers , and a little bit of sensation is perhaps necessary to draw attention to the issues involved . But this adversarial approach does not do jus- tice to the complexities of ...
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... called Third World First . I cannot remember how I got into it , but I do recall going from room to room collecting money to relieve starvation . I remember one scene vividly . I had fallen into a routine of jokingly saying ' I'm after ...
... called Third World First . I cannot remember how I got into it , but I do recall going from room to room collecting money to relieve starvation . I remember one scene vividly . I had fallen into a routine of jokingly saying ' I'm after ...
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... called shallow and superficial . Was that pride ? I ask because it is something I have often found to be a block to hu- manitarian aid . In Afghanistan , Oxfam staff declared that they would stop all aid programmes until the Taliban ...
... called shallow and superficial . Was that pride ? I ask because it is something I have often found to be a block to hu- manitarian aid . In Afghanistan , Oxfam staff declared that they would stop all aid programmes until the Taliban ...
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... called in to carry Gordana down the stairs . When Gordana was bombed by NATO , I suddenly had the feeling that I might be on the wrong side . And then came the more chilling realization that I should not be on any side at all . All the ...
... called in to carry Gordana down the stairs . When Gordana was bombed by NATO , I suddenly had the feeling that I might be on the wrong side . And then came the more chilling realization that I should not be on any side at all . All the ...
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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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الصفحة 18 - a person is a person through other people'. It is not 'I think therefore I am'. It says rather: 'I am human because I belong.' I participate, I share. A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are 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...