Date: 2015
Type: Book
Humanitarian ethics : a guide to the morality of aid in war and disaster
London : Hurst & Company, 2015[IOW]
SLIM, Hugo, Humanitarian ethics : a guide to the morality of aid in war and disaster, London : Hurst & Company, 2015[IOW] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/63625
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Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction
-- PART ONE — ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS
1. The Ethical Origins of Humanitarian Action
-- PART TWO — THE MODERN ELABORATION OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES
2. The Humanitarian Goal—Humanity and Impartiality
3. Political Principles—Neutrality and Independence
4. Dignity Principles—Participation, Empowerment and Respect
5. Stewardship Principles—Sustainability and Accountability
6. What Kind of Ethics is Humanitarian Ethics?
-- PART THREE — ETHICAL PRACTICE IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION
7. Reason and Emotion
8. Humanitarian Deliberation
9. The Structure of Moral Choices
10. Moral Responsibility in Humanitarian Ethics
11. Persistent Ethical Problems in Humanitarian Action
12. The Ethical Humanitarian Worker
-- Annex 1 The Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
-- Annex 2 The Code of Conduct for NGOs in Disaster Relief
-- Annex 3 The Humanitarian Charter
-- Annex 4 Principles of Good Humanitarian Donorship
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/63625
ISBN: 9781849043403
Series/Number: [IOW]
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Grant number: FP7/340956/EU
Sponsorship and Funder information:
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement No 340956 - IOW - The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict.