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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... experiences in Iraq in 1990- 1992 , I am not surprised to read Tony Vaux's impression of Bosnia in 1993 : ' The difference between what the European public believes and what happens on the ground is extraordinary . ' The same could be ...
... experiences in Iraq in 1990- 1992 , I am not surprised to read Tony Vaux's impression of Bosnia in 1993 : ' The difference between what the European public believes and what happens on the ground is extraordinary . ' The same could be ...
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... experience and the attention they receive ? In The Selfish Altruist , Tony Vaux brings over 20 years ' experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency programmes coordinators to a far - reaching and unflinching account of the conflicts ...
... experience and the attention they receive ? In The Selfish Altruist , Tony Vaux brings over 20 years ' experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency programmes coordinators to a far - reaching and unflinching account of the conflicts ...
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... experience not just one feeling , nor purely a sense of altruistic concern , but other feelings of which we would rather not be conscious . Maybe a little smugness because the same thing has not happened to us . Perhaps even a sense of ...
... experience not just one feeling , nor purely a sense of altruistic concern , but other feelings of which we would rather not be conscious . Maybe a little smugness because the same thing has not happened to us . Perhaps even a sense of ...
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... experience described in this book demon- strates that we need to pare away personal prejudice and preconception in order to reach a comprehensive understanding of ' the person in need ' . Otherwise , for the serious altruist at least ...
... experience described in this book demon- strates that we need to pare away personal prejudice and preconception in order to reach a comprehensive understanding of ' the person in need ' . Otherwise , for the serious altruist at least ...
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... experienced . I began to assemble my most striking memories of Ethiopia , Sudan , Mozambique , Afghani- stan , Somalia and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union . All of these recollections have been ...
... experienced . I began to assemble my most striking memories of Ethiopia , Sudan , Mozambique , Afghani- stan , Somalia and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union . All of these recollections have been ...
المحتوى
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...