The Giving-Receiving Relationship: Inherently Unequal?

Mary B. Anderson

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Humanitarian Response Index 2008, 2009, pp 97-105 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The humanitarian assistance community struggles with what we perceive to be an inherently unequal relationship between givers and receivers of help. We intend to treat people with dignity and respect in order to signal our equality. However, at some basic level, many humanitarian actors believe that the reality of their plenty alongside the reality of others’needs establishes such a fundamental human dichotomy that inequality is inevitable. Given this perception, humanitarian assistance workers are seeking better approaches, in order to redress what they see as the inherent inequality between giver and receiver.

Keywords: Humanitarian Actor; Participatory Process; Local Reality; Humanitarian Assistance; Humanitarian Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584617_6

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