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Bolest je više od metafore
Umrla je velika književnica Susan Sontag. Njeno pisanje o medicini i bolesti vrijedno su nasljeđe. Bile je i izuzetno čovječna osoba. U najtežim trenucima rata došla je u Sarajevo. Tragično je doživjela Srebrenicu i pisala o tome. Njen sin Davi Rieff, svjetski ugledan humanitarac proveo je i sam duže vrijeme u Bosni i Hercegovini i upozorio svijet na nedostatnost postojećih oblika humanitarnog rada.
Nažalost u posljednje vrijeme smo i sami u Hrvatskoj svjesni banalne neosjećajnosti prema bolesnima, rukovodećih ljudi u zdravstvu.
Poput \u27Zida boli\u27 ulažemo prikaz patnje i smrti Susan Sontag i socijalnih raskršća moderne medicine kao početak stalnog praćenja sudbine pacijenata u Hrvatskoj. Tekst koji prenosimo je objavljen u Magazinu, New York Timesa
One future or many? November 14, 15, and 16, 2002
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This was the Center's 2nd annual Conference that took place during November 14, 15, and 16, 2002.The conference brought together some 30 experts from various disciplines to discuss whether the trajectories of the future will be ‘global’ or ‘regional’ in nature. Different panels looks at the future trajectories for Europe, the Western Hemisphere, Central Asia and the Former Soviet Union, and on Asia and in each case the discussion looked at the relative importance of the regional and of global dynamics on teh forces shaping the future of these regions.Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affair
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
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A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
During the 1990s, the world bore witness to a startling number of
atrocities, from the much-publicized massacres in Bosnia and the genocide
in Rwanda, to the lesser known civil wars in the Democratic Republic of
Congo and the Sudan, which themselves claimed millions. To David Rieff,
author of books such as Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and
an experienced journalist who extensively covered Bosnia and Rwanda, the
world is a place where literally billions suffer with little reason for hope.
Human rights and international community are ideas with good
intentions, but with little substance or weight behind them. For Rieff, the
aid worker is one of the last remaining noble forces amidst this brutality.
The aid worker brings food, care, and hope to both innocent and guilty
alike in the worst of circumstances. Quoting one aid worker, Rieff defines
traditional humanitarianism as an effort to bring a measure of humanity,
always insufficient, into situations that should not exist. \u27
Because he holds the principles and acts of humanitarianism in such
high regard, Rieff is deeply disturbed by the increased politicization of
humanitarianism and the military interventions undertaken in its name in
the 1990s. David Rieff\u27s A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis is an
emotionally raw and deeply personal argument that humanitarian
organizations must be free from the constraints of the demands of donor
governments and the broader ideological concerns of the human rights or
good governance movements. Humanitarianism must be free to simply
aid those in need. In making this argument, the book provides a view into
the politics and subculture of humanitarian aid organizations, from the
International Red Cross (IRC) to Doctors Without Borders (MSF); it takes as
its examples the humanitarian crises of the 1990s, from Bosnia to
Afghanistan
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