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This monograph opens with an examination of the aid industry and
the claims of leading practitioners that the industry is
experiencing a crisis of confidence due to an absence of clear
moral guidelines. The book then undertakes a critical review of the
leading philosophical accounts of the duty to aid, including the
narrow, instructive accounts in the writings of John Rawls and
Peter Singer, and broad, disruptive accounts in the writings of
Onora O'Neill and Amartya Sen. Through an elaboration of the
elements of interconnection, responsible action, inclusive
engagement, and accumulative duties, the comparative approach
developed in the book has the potential to overcome the
philosophical tensions between the accounts and provide guidance to
aid practitioners, donors and recipients in the complex
contemporary circumstances of assistance. Informed by real world
examples, this book grapples with complex and multi-dimensional
questions concerning practices and the ethics of aid. The author
judiciously guides us through the debate between deontological and
consequentialist moral theories to arrive at a sophisticated
consequentialist account that does justice to the complexity of the
problems and facilitates our deliberation in discharging our duty
to aid, without yielding, as it should not, a determinate answer
for each specific situation. Researchers, students, and
practitioners of international aid will all find this book
rewarding. Win-chiat Lee, Professor and Chair, Department of
Philosophy, Wake Forest University Susan Murphy's book offers us a
sophisticated exploration of the philosophical basis for aid. It is
grounded in a full understanding of the complexities and pitfalls
of the aid industry, but its particular strength lies, mainly
through an extensive discussion of Singer, Rawls, O'Neill and Sen,
in a comparison of consequentialist and duty-based approaches,
eventually endorsing a broad non-idealised, situated
consequentialist account in what she calls an interconnected
ethical approach to the practice of assistance. For anyone wanting
to think carefully about why we should give aid, this book has much
to offer. Dr Nigel Dower Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of
Aberdeen Author of World Ethics - the New Agenda (2007)
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt
Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information
comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the
world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach
trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three
weeks--a pulse-pounding page-turner by a reporter who was there
every step of their journey out. After a practice in June 2018, a
Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a
famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys' birthday, but
neither he nor the dozen resurfaced. Worried parents and rescuers
flocked to the mouth of a cave that seemed to have swallowed the
boys without a trace. Ranging in age from eleven to sixteen, the
boys were all members of the Wild Boars soccer team. When water
unexpectedly inundated the cave, blocking their escape, they
retreated deeper inside, taking shelter in a side cavern. While the
world feared them dead, the thirteen young souls survived by
licking the condensation off the cave's walls, meditating, and
huddling together for warmth. In this thrilling account, ABC News
Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman recounts this amazing
story in depth and from every angle, exploring their time in the
cave, the failed plans and human mistakes that nearly doomed them,
and the daring mission that ultimately saved them. Gutman
introduces the elite team of volunteer divers who risked death to
execute a plan so risky that its American planners admitted, "for
us, success would have meant getting just one boy out alive." He
takes you inside the meetings where life and death decisions were
grimly made and describes how these heroes pulled off an improbable
rescue under immense pressure, with the boys' desperate parents and
the entire world watching. One of the largest rescues in history
was in doubt until the very last moment. Matt Gutman covered the
story intensively, went deep inside the caves himself, and
interviewed dozens of rescuers, experts and eye-witnessed around
the world. The result is this pulse-pounding page-turner that
vividly recreates this extraordinary event in all its
intensity--and documents the ingenuity and sacrifice it took to
succeed.
In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal
regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd
returned to the village where she had been conducting research for
many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster
and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the
sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people
worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national
politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The
Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social
identities, economic dynamics, and political structures.
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This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on
development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national
populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of
the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally.
Next, it gives a historical-political overview of development aid
in the post WW-II era and discusses the dominant Washington
Consensus doctrine and its failure. It then provides a critique of
the Official Development Assistance (ODA) discourse and reviews the
political economy of ODA, the discourse, and the conditionalities
that are barriers to socio-economic development. The final chapters
explore the question of Trumponomics as an alternative to the
global neoliberal ODA, and the potential impact of Trumponomics' on
ODA. The book concludes with thoughts on the potential future
directions for ODA within the 'ideals' of Trumponomics and national
populism.
This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other
emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK,
whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The
authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the
growth of the food aid sector in the UK following the period of
austerity 2007-2012, before addressing the causes of food
insecurity and concluding that food banks are a symptom of
austerity and government inaction which fail to tackle the
underlying causes of food poverty. The research is timely, and
considers a range of disciplines and practices. This book will
appeal to researchers, policy makers and practitioners food
economics, welfare economics, public policy, public health, food
studies, nutrition, and the wider social sciences.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book
investigates what international placements of healthcare employees
in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy
of its national health system. The authors present empirical data
collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on
reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning
and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting
as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop
a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and
experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light
on the role that international placements play as part of
continuing professional development both in the UK and in other
sending countries.
Disasters happen! These are the stories of love and loss, death,
and destruction. Many victims died in disasters. These are the
stories of how survivors live to strike back. Survivors were
trapped, but then set free when they were rescued! Some are
man-made disasters, while others are natural disasters. The
survivors of disasters include child abuse victims, domestic
violence survivors, battered wives, war veterans, orphans, riots
survivors, and victims of the terrorist attacks. These survivors
live to tell the tale after seeing a natural disaster such as
deadly storms.
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run
a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which
has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and
children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia
groups have been battling for control of the country creating one
of the most dire human rights crises in the world, Dr. Abdi's camp
is a beacon of hope for the Somalis, most of whom have no proper
access to health care. She was recently held hostage by a militant
groups who threatened her life and told her that because she's a
woman she has no right to run the camp. She refused to leave. This
is not just the story of a woman doctor in a war torn Islamic
country risking her life daily to minister to thousands of
desperate people, it's also an inspiring story of a divorced woman
and her two daughters, bound together on a mission to rehabilitate
a country.
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