The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and WarRoutledge, 17 de jun. de 2013 - 240 páginas 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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... poor and suffering peoples. Is there guidance from within the humanitarian tradition? Since the Crimean war, the issue has been dominated by the question (of concern to generals as much as to humanitarians) of how to limit the effects ...
... poor and suffering peoples. Is there guidance from within the humanitarian tradition? Since the Crimean war, the issue has been dominated by the question (of concern to generals as much as to humanitarians) of how to limit the effects ...
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... poor out of the minds and hearts of Western people who wanted to get on with their own lives? Suddenly I saw it all in a new light. I was also alarmed that I too had been swept along on an uncontrollable tide created by NATO and the ...
... poor out of the minds and hearts of Western people who wanted to get on with their own lives? Suddenly I saw it all in a new light. I was also alarmed that I too had been swept along on an uncontrollable tide created by NATO and the ...
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... poor'. The idea is that people deserve our help because they are innocent victims. But this is not always true. And if it is not, are we supposed to withhold aid? The public response to the camps in Goma in 1995, which were full of ...
... poor'. The idea is that people deserve our help because they are innocent victims. But this is not always true. And if it is not, are we supposed to withhold aid? The public response to the camps in Goma in 1995, which were full of ...
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... poor when I left as when I arrived. Every day as I stepped out of my house I had to walk past, and sometimes over, the bodies of poor people who might be either alive or dead. During 1984–1994 I worked as part of a huge team of aid ...
... poor when I left as when I arrived. Every day as I stepped out of my house I had to walk past, and sometimes over, the bodies of poor people who might be either alive or dead. During 1984–1994 I worked as part of a huge team of aid ...
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... poor people were so wonderful they could cope with anything. The mistake I now notice most is that weignored the universality of the human desire for power. It was in ourselves, and in the poor, but we were only interested in people ...
... poor people were so wonderful they could cope with anything. The mistake I now notice most is that weignored the universality of the human desire for power. It was in ourselves, and in the poor, but we were only interested in people ...
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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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