Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster by Slim, Hugo

Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human...
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Author: Hugo Slim
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Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster by Slim, Hugo

Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

$116.58

Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

$116.58
Author: Hugo Slim
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Hugo Slim
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780190264833


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2016

About the Author

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.

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