Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict

Chapter 8 from the book Humanitarian Action and Ethics

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 20 March 2019

• Country: Syria
• Document Type: Book Chapter
• Theme: Humanitarian Disasters and Emergencies
• First published: 1 June 2018
• Authors: Funk, K. L., Rayes, D., Rubenstein, L. S., Diab, N. R. and Singh, N. S.
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  DeCamp, M., Maziak, W., Ho, L. S., and Courtland, W.

Abstract

Decision-making for humanitarian health organisations in armed conflict, where combatants often violently interfere with humanitarian operations, is fraught with ethical challenges. Health workers often find themselves confronted with dilemmas where answers consistent with humanitarian values and standards do not exist, requiring what Hunt et al. (2012) describe as the need to choose a 바카라 사이트˜least-worst option바카라 사이트™. De Waal (2010) refers to these challenges as among humanitarianism바카라 사이트™s 바카라 사이트˜inescapable cruelties바카라 사이트™, and argues that they are an unavoidable consequence of working at odds with the interests of powerful forces of war.

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Citation

Kory L Funk, Diana Rayes, Leonard S Rubenstein, Nermin R Diab, Namrita S Singh, Matthew DeCamp, Wasim Maziak, Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson (2018) 바카라 사이트˜Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict바카라 사이트™ - Chapter 8 in Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith (eds) (2019) Humanitarian Action and Ethics, London: Zed Books

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Published 20 March 2019