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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... global emergency programmes , and became particularly closely involved in Ethiopia , Sudan , Mozambique and Somalia . With the collapse of the Soviet Union , he turned to Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region , building up new Oxfam ...
... global emergency programmes , and became particularly closely involved in Ethiopia , Sudan , Mozambique and Somalia . With the collapse of the Soviet Union , he turned to Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region , building up new Oxfam ...
الصفحة 1
... global economy . They are not people worthy of concern - people whose thoughts and lives are valued in themselves . Disaster is compounded by a sense of being devalued . The body suffers physical want , while the mind suffers from a ...
... global economy . They are not people worthy of concern - people whose thoughts and lives are valued in themselves . Disaster is compounded by a sense of being devalued . The body suffers physical want , while the mind suffers from a ...
الصفحة 3
... global economy , global science and global technology . The 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 ...
... global economy , global science and global technology . The 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 ...
الصفحة 4
... global change . These wars are not between states or even between recognizable mili- tary entities , and they rarely have a recognizable objective of peace ; they are chronic wars of political control , of marginalization and of access ...
... global change . These wars are not between states or even between recognizable mili- tary entities , and they rarely have a recognizable objective of peace ; they are chronic wars of political control , of marginalization and of access ...
الصفحة 17
... global era in which Western power promotes the concept of humanity ? Or does it show Western military power seizing hold of humanitarian principles and distorting them ? I suspect that there is nothing quite as definite as a new world ...
... global era in which Western power promotes the concept of humanity ? Or does it show Western military power seizing hold of humanitarian principles and distorting them ? I suspect that there is nothing quite as definite as a new world ...
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...