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Author: Jennifer C. Rubenstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0199684103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs), this book explains why INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan and full-fledged conventional governments.
Author: Jennifer Rubenstein
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0191507016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first book-length, English-language account of the political ethics of large-scale, Western-based humanitarian INGOs, such as Oxfam, CARE, and Doctors Without Borders. These INGOs are often either celebrated as heroes or do-going machines or maligned as incompetents 'on the road to hell'. In contrast, this book suggests the picture is more complicated. Drawing on political theory, philosophy, and ethics, along with original fieldwork, this book shows that while humanitarian INGOs are often perceived as non-governmental and apolitical, they are in fact sometimes somewhat governmental, highly political, and often 'second-best' actors. As a result, they face four central ethical predicaments: the problem of spattered hands, the quandary of the second-best, the cost-effectiveness conundrum, and the moral motivation trade-off. This book considers what it would look like for INGOs to navigate these predicaments in ways that are as consistent as possible with democratic, egalitarian, humanitarian and justice-based norms. It argues that humanitarian INGOs must regularly make deep moral compromises. In choosing which compromises to make, they should focus primarily on their overall consequences, as opposed to their intentions or the intrinsic value of their activities. But they should interpret consequences expansively, and not limit themselves to those that are amenable to precise measurements of cost-effectiveness. The book concludes by explaining the implications of its 'map' of humanitarian INGO political ethics for individual donors to INGOs, and for how we all should conceive of INGOs' role in addressing pressing global problems.
Author: Jennifer C. Rubenstein
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780191764660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the difficult ethical quandaries faced by humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGOs), this book explains why INGOs occupy a middle ground between the individual good Samaritan and full-fledged conventional governments.
Author: Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-06-13
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0195329546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaged with previous scholarship and bringing to bear new material and literary evidence, this book offers a new understanding of the history, identity, and relationship of early Samaritans and Jews.
Author: Alison Brysk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0199700680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no ties to their own. Each year, Sweden contributes over $3 billion to aid the world's poorest citizens and struggling democracies, asking nothing in return. And, a generation ago, Costa Rica defied U.S. power to broker a peace accord that ended civil wars in three neighboring countries--and has now joined with principled peers like South Africa to support the United Nations' International Criminal Court, despite U.S. pressure and aid cuts. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are alive today because they have been sheltered by one of these nations. Global Good Samaritans looks at the reasons why and how some states promote human rights internationally, arguing that humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism--it is a pattern of persistent principled politics. Human rights as a principled foreign policy defies the realist prediction of untrammeled pursuit of national interest, and suggests the utility of constructivist approaches that investigate the role of ideas, identities, and influences on state action. Brysk shows how a diverse set of democratic middle powers, inspired by visionary leaders and strong civil societies, came to see the linkage between their long-term interest and the common good. She concludes that state promotion of global human rights may be an option for many more members of the international community and that the international human rights regime can be strengthened at the interstate level, alongside social movement campaigns and the struggle for the democratization of global governance.
Author: Patrick McCloskey
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780867169706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe editor of "St. Anthony Messenger" magazine for many years, Fr. McCloskey has answered many questions in his "Ask a Franciscan" column. He mines that wealth of material to find the most helpful questions and answers for readers to help them see the connection between their faith and their spiritual growth as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Author: Stewart Penwell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9004390707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Jesus the Samaritan: Ethnic Labelling in the Gospel of John, Stewart Penwell examines how the ethnic labels “the Jews” and “Samaritans” function in the Gospel of John.
Author: Jongmun Jung
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-05-30
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the background of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26–40. For a comprehensive study, it utilizes echoic allusion, cultural background, and narrative criticism. It explores the textual tradition of Deut 23:1–8 in Jewish literature, with a particular focus on Isaiah’s inclusive presentation of “eunuchs” and “foreigners” in contrast to the Deuteronomy stipulation for the assembly of the Lord. This work also explores the ancient practice of castration, the Jewish exiles in Elephantine, and Jewish pilgrimage to reconstruct the cultural background of the Ethiopian eunuch. Additionally, it focuses on Luke’s authorial role in presenting the gospel’s geographic, ethnic, and religious expansion to identify the Ethiopian’s ethnic and religious identity in the narrative development of the three trajectories. The conclusion drawn is that the Ethiopian eunuch cannot be identified as an uncircumcised gentile. Instead, he is more like an African man of Jewish descent, included in the Abrahamic covenant but excluded from the cultic setting of worship in the temple.
Author: Pummer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-20
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9004666087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-01-26
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 056770825X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClosely examines John's portrayal of women in relation to discipleship and the theme of new creation, arguing that these depictions are influenced by his apocalyptic world-view. By employing historical and literary methods of biblical interpretation to analyse John's presentation of women and gender, Miller explores the extent to which John gives any indications of the female role in both John's community and the beginnings of the Christian faith. Beginning with the Virgin Mary's portrayal at the wedding at Cana, where she prompts Jesus to carry out his first sign, Miller then thoroughly asses several crucial female characters in John to stress how Jesus' female followers truly recognise him as the Messiah. These include the Samaritan woman, Martha and Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene and her encounter with Jesus in the garden. Crucially, Miller suggests that John's frequent use of “woman” links these female followers (particular Jesus' venerated mother) with the figure of Eve in Genesis, and she concludes that women are associated with the “hour” of Jesus when he casts out the “ruler of the world” and inaugurates the new creation.
