Humanitarian action and ethics /

"From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escala...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ahmad, Ayesha, Dr (Editor, Contributor), Smith, James, MBBS (Editor, Contributor), Slim, Hugo (writer of foreword.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, England : Zed Books, 2018.
Subjects:	Humanitarian assistance > Moral and ethical aspects. Humanitarianism. Aid & relief programmes Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Foreword: Humanitarian action and ethics / Hugo Slim
Foreword: On the front lines of humanitarian medical ethics / Vickie Hawkins and Paul McMaster
Introduction: Narrating humanitarian action and ethics / Ayesha Ahmad
Difficult decision-making, compromise, and moral distress in medical humanitarian response / James Smith
Moral entanglement and the ethics of closing humanitarian projects / Matthew Hunt and Jingru Miao
The outsider's role : ethical reflections from the study of international-national staff relations in development and humanitarian organisations / Maëlle Noé
The moral motivation of humanitarian actors / Katarína Komenská
Makeshift humanitarians : informal humanitarian aid across European close(d) borders / Elisa Sandri and Fosco Bugoni
Amateur humanitarianism, social solidarity and 'volunteer tourism' in the EU refugee 'crisis' / Jane Freedman
La Nouvelle France : institutionalised abuse, 'exception' and spectacle in the exiled/volunteer relationship at the Franco-British border / Celeste Cantor-Stephens
Ethical challenges among humanitarian organisations : insights from the response to the Syrian conflict / Kory L Funk, Diana Rayes, Leonard S Rubenstein, Nermin R Diab, Namrita S Singh, Matthew DeCamp, Wasim Maziak, Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson
Home and away : ethical issues in humanitarian aid to Syrians in Israel / Schlomit Zuckerman, Morshid Farhat and Salman Zarka
The emergence of humanitarian failure : the case of Haiti / Jan Wörlein
Ethical encouners as a humanitarian psychiatrist / Peter Hughes
One for all, or all for one : the ethical implications of individual human rights-based and public good-based frameworks in emergency mental health / Liyam Eloul and Claire F O'Reilly
Ethics of cultural concepts and conflicts surrounding disclosure of gender-based violence in humanitarian settings / Ayesha Ahmad
The invisible man : the shrouding of ethical issues related to sexual violence against men in the humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Vanessa Okito Wedi
Humanitarian ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders : discussing dilemmas and mitigating moral distress / Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Carol Devine, John Pringle, Sidney Wong and Philippe Calain
Stop missing the point : managing humanitarian action well / Caroline Clarinval
An ethic of refusal : the political economy of humanitarianism under neoliberal globalisation / John Pringle and Toby Leon Moorsom
Afterword: The ethics of compiling a book on humanitarian ethics / James Smith.