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A theory of compassion: the new authority of humanitarian organisations
Type
dissertation project
Start Date
September 1, 2009
End Date
September 1, 2014
Status
ongoing
Keywords
NGO
compassion
emotion
humanitarian organisation
interference
Terre des Hommes
Médecins du Monde
Médecins sans Frontière
Description
in the late 1960's we could observe a new "humanitarian wave". Médecins sans Frontière, awarded with the Nobel prize in 1999, sets up a new authority: the right to interfere. We analyse how that interference became a right for human beings, the right to "be human".
Leader contributor(s)
Funder
Topic(s)
humanitarian organisation
emotion in marketing
market evolution
"human branding"
Method(s)
empirical
critical
Range
School
Range (De)
School
Eprints ID
71841