Between Samaritans and states : the political ethics of humanitarian INGOs / Jennifer C. Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenstein, Jennifer C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Non-governmental organizations.

Organizational behavior--Moral and ethical aspects.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs), this book explains why INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan and full-fledged conventional governments.

Contents:

1.1.A Cartographic Approach

1.2.A Map of Humanitarian INGO Political Ethics

1.3.Four Ethical Predicaments

1.4.Eight Extant Alternatives

1.5.Democratic, Egalitarian, Humanitarian, and Justice-Based Norms

1.6.Contributions to Existing Literatures

1.7.Scope of the Study, Fieldwork, and Methodology

1.8.Outline of the Book

2.Eight Extant Alternative Approaches

2.1.INGOs as Rescuers

2.2.INGOs as Partners

2.3.INGOs as Agents for their Donors

2.4.INGOs as Agents for their Intended Beneficiaries

2.5.Accountability

2.6.Traditional Humanitarian Principles

2.7.INGOs as Neo-Colonialists

2.8.INGOs as Multinational Corporations

2.9.Conclusion

3.A Map of Humanitarian INGO Political Ethics

3.1.Humanitarian INGOs are Sometimes Somewhat Governmental

3.2.Humanitarian INGOs are Highly Political

3.3.Humanitarian INGOs are Often Second-Best Actors

3.4.Moral Permissions

3.5.Conclusion: Four Ethical Predicaments

4.The Problem of Spattered Hands

4.1.The Distinctiveness of Spattered Hands Ethical Predicaments

4.2.Do No Harm, Complicity, Doctrine of Double Effect, Dirty Hands

4.3.Spattered Hands

4.4.Conclusion

5.The Quandary of the Second-Best

5.1.INGO Advocacy as Non-Electoral Representation

5.2.INGO Advocacy as Equal Partnership

5.3.INGO Advocacy as the Exercise of Power

5.4.Conclusion

6.The Cost-Effectiveness Conundrum

6.1.INGOs' Large-Scale Decisions about Resource Use

6.2.The Need Principle, the Harm Minimization Principle, and the Ethics of Refusal

6.3.Evaluating the Need Principle, the Harm Minimization Principle, and the Ethics of Refusal

6.4.The Ethics of Resistance

6.5.Conclusion

7.The Moral Motivation Tradeoff

7.1.The Standard View and Its Limitations

7.2.An Alternative Approach: The Moral Motivation Tradeoff

7.3.Strategies for Navigating the Moral Motivation Tradeoff

7.4.Conclusion

8.Conclusion: Political Political Ethics

8.1.Bringing the Four Maps Together

8.2.Implications for Donors

8.3.Specifying Democratic, Egalitarian, Humanitarian, and Justice-Based Norms for Humanitarian INGOs

8.4.Toward a Political Political Ethics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-150701-6

0-19-176466-3

OCLC:

1135520056