Humanitarian action and ethics / edited by Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith ; with a foreword by Hugo Slim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmad, A. (Ayesha), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanitarian assistance.

Humanitarianism.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 311 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books Ltd, 2018.

Contents:

1 Difficult Decision-making, Compromise, and Moral Distress in Medical Humanitarian Response 6 / James Smith

2 Moral Entanglement and the Ethics of Closing Humanitarian Projects 22 / Matthew Hunt and Jingru Miao

3 The Outsider's Role: Ethical Reflections from the Study of International-National Staff Relations in Development and Humanitarian Organisations 40 / Maëlle Noé

4 The Moral Motivation of Humanitarian Actors 62 / Katarína Komenská

5 Makeshift Humanitarians: Informal Humanitarian Aid Across European Close(d) Borders 79 / Elisa Sandri and Fosco Bugoni

6 Amateur Humanitarianism, Social Solidarity and 'Volunteer Tourism' in the EU Refugee 'Crisis' 94 / Jane Freedman

7 La Nouvelle France: Institutionalised Abuse, 'Exception' and Spectacle in the Exiled/Volunteer Relationship at the Franco-British Border 112 / Celeste Cantor-Stephens

8 Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict 133 / Kory L Funk and Diana Rayes and Leonard S Rubenstein and Nermin R Diab and Namrita S Singh and Matthew DeCamp and Wasim Maziak and Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson

9 Home and Away: Ethical Issues in Humanitarian Aid to Syríans in Israel 146 / Schlomit Zuckerman and Morshid Farhat and Salman Zarka

10 The Emergence of Humanitarian Failure: The Case of Haiti 160 / Jan Wörlein

11 Ethical Encounters as a Humanitarian Psychiatrist 181 / Peter Hughes

12 One for All, or All for One: The Ethical Implications of Individual Human Rights-based and Public Good-based Frameworks in Emergency Mental Health 200 / Liyam Eloul and Claire F O'Reilly

13 Ethics of Cultural Concepts and Conflicts Surrounding Disclosure of Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings 219 / Ayesha Ahmad

14 The Invisible Man: The Shrouding of Ethical Issues Related to Sexual Violence Against Men in the Humanitarian Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo 232 / Vanessa Okito Wedi

15 Humanitarian Ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Discussing Dilemmas and Mitigating Moral Distress 249 / Rachel Kiddell-Monroe and Carol Devine and John Pringle and Sidney Wong and PhilipCalain

16 Stop Missing the Point Managing Humanitarian Action Well 269 / Caroline Clarinval

17 An Ethic of Refusal; The Political Economy of Humanitarianism Under Neoliberal Globalisation 283 / John Pringle and Toby Leon Moorsom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1786992671

9781786992673

178699268X

9781786992680

OCLC:

987053521