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  title info:
    title: Ethical Questions and International NGOs
    sub title: An exchange between Philosophers and NGOs
  name:
    name part: Horton, Keith.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Roche, Chris.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Horton, Keith.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Roche, Chris.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 241 p. online resource.
  abstract: In recent decades there has been a great expansion in the number, size and influence of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) involved in international relief and development. These changes have led to increased scrutiny of such organisations, and this scrutiny, together with increasing reflection by INGOs themselves and their staff on their own practice, has helped to highlight a number of pressing ethical questions such organisations face, such as: should INGOs attempt to provide emergency assistance even when doing so risks helping to fuel further conflict? How should INGOs manage any differences between their values and those of the people they seek to benefit? How open and honest should INGOs be about their own uncertainties and failures? This book consists of sustained reflections on such questions. It derives from a workshop held at Melbourne University in July 2007 that brought together a group of people – for the most part, reflective practitioners and moral and political philosophers – to discuss such questions. It explores honestly some of the current challenges and dilemmas that INGOs face, and also suggests some new ideas for meeting these challenges. Our hope is that the kind of explicit reflection on the ethical issues INGOs face exemplified in this publication will help to promote a wider debate about these issues, a debate that in turn will help INGO managers and others to make better, wiser, more ethically informed decisions.
  table of contents: Ethical Obligations to the Poor in a World of Nation States -- Human Rights, Development INGOs and Priorities for Action -- The Ethics of Taking Sides -- The Epistemic Problem: Potential Solutions -- The Seeming Simplicity of Measurement* -- Whose Impact, and Is It All About Impact? -- Compromised Humanitarianism -- Aid Agencies, States, and Collective Harm -- To Respect or Not to Respect . . . Ethical Dilemmas of INGO Development Practitioners -- Ethical Behaviour in Non-government Organisations -- Afterword.
  note: by Keith Horton, Chris Roche ; edited by Keith Horton, Chris Roche.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Political philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Political Philosophy
  classification: BJ1-1725
  classification: 170
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 23
  identifier: 9789048185924
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8592-4
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    record creation date: 100327
    record change date: 20151204180949.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-8592-4