Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project

by Caroline Abu-Sada

Book Overview

What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid? What is the real impact of humanitarian groups? M?decins Sans Fronti?res sought to answer these questions in the Perception Project, a study that spanned four years and more than ten countries. MSF interviewed close to 7,000 people in order to understand the ways that patients, populations, authorities, and communities perceive the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization's principles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773540857
• ISBN13: 9780773540859
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"