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8%OFFHugo Slim - Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster - 9781849043403 - V9781849043403
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Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

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Description for Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster Paperback. An indispensable guide to the moral quandaries confronting those engaged in humanitarian action. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFM; JKSR; JPWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 311 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849043403
SKU
V9781849043403
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About Hugo Slim
Hugo Slim (PhD) is a leading scholar of Humanitarian Studies with particular expertise in humanitarian ethics, the protection of civilians, conflict resolution, and international business ethics. He is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War (Hurst, 2008).

Reviews for Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster
Slim writes in a very engaging manner that is both erudite and easy to read, professional and personal at the same time, as humanitarianism must be. One really feels he himself has struggled with many of the dilemmas he describes and is eager to share his experience.
International Affairs
Few fields of human enterprise are as morally challenging ... Read more

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