Dr Ayesha Ahmad is a lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at St George's University of London, and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute for Global Health, University College London. She specialises in gender-based violence and mental health in conflict and humanitarian crises.James Smith is a Research Fellow with the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has worked as a researcher with Médecins Sans Frontières's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH), and as a clinician with the U.K. National Health Service.

Nobody is under the illusion that humanitarian work is easy or convenient. What Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith have achieved in this volume, moreover, is a powerful challenge to the idea that it is unquestionably "right".

• Foreword: Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Hugo SlimForeword: On the Front Lines of Humanitarian Medical Ethics - Vickie Hawkins and Paul McMasterIntroduction: Narrating Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Ayesha Ahmad1. Difficult Decision-making, Compromise, and Moral Distress in Medical Humanitarian Response - James Smith2. Moral Entanglement and the Ethics of Closing Humanitarian Projects - Matthew Hunt and Jingru Miao3. The Outsider's Role: Ethical Reflections from the Study of International–National Staff Relations in Development and Humanitarian Organisations - Maëlle Noé4. The Moral Motivation of Humanitarian Actors - Katarína Komenská5. Makeshift Humanitarians: Informal Humanitarian Aid Across European Close(d) Borders - Elisa Sandri and Fosco Bugoni6. Amateur Humanitarianism, Social Solidarity and 'Volunteer Tourism' in the EU Refugee 'Crisis' - Jane Freedman 7. La Nouvelle France: Institutionalised Abuse, 'Exception' and Spectacle in the Exiled/Volunteer Relationship at the Franco–British Border - Celeste Cantor-Stephens8. Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict* - Kory L Funk, Diana Rayes, Leonard S Rubenstein, Nermin R Diab, Namrita S Singh, Matthew DeCamp, Wasim Maziak, Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson9. Home and Away: Ethical Issues in Humanitarian Aid to Syrians in Israel - Schlomit Zuckerman, Morshid Farhat and Salman Zarka10. The Emergence of Humanitarian Failure: The Case of Haiti - Jan Wörlein11. Ethical Encounters as a Humanitarian Psychiatrist - Peter Hughes12. One for All, or All for One: The Ethical Implications of Individual Human Rights-based and Public Good-based Frameworks in Emergency Mental Health - Liyam Eloul and Claire F O'Reilly13. Ethics of Cultural Concepts and Conflicts Surrounding Disclosure of Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings - Ayesha Ahmad14. The Invisible Man: The Shrouding of Ethical Issues Related to Sexual Violence Against Men in the Humanitarian Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Vanessa Okito Wedi15. Humanitarian Ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Discussing Dilemmas and Mitigating Moral Distress - Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Carol Devine, John Pringle, Sidney Wong and Philippe Calain16. Stop Missing the Point: Managing Humanitarian Action Well - Caroline Clarinval17. An Ethic of Refusal: The Political Economy of Humanitarianism Under Neoliberal Globalisation - John Pringle and Toby Leon MoorsomAfterword: The Ethics of Compiling a Book on Humanitarian Ethics - James Smith*The chapter 'Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict' is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). You can view the downloadable PDF here.

Dr Ayesha Ahmad is a lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at St George's University of London, and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute for Global Health, University College London. She specialises in gender-based violence and mental health in conflict and humanitarian crises.James Smith is a Research Fellow with the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has worked as a researcher with Médecins Sans Frontières's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH), and as a clinician with the U.K. National Health Service.

Nobody is under the illusion that humanitarian work is easy or convenient. What Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith have achieved in this volume, moreover, is a powerful challenge to the idea that it is unquestionably "right".

• Foreword: Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Hugo SlimForeword: On the Front Lines of Humanitarian Medical Ethics - Vickie Hawkins and Paul McMasterIntroduction: Narrating Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Ayesha Ahmad1. Difficult Decision-making, Compromise, and Moral Distress in Medical Humanitarian Response - James Smith2. Moral Entanglement and the Ethics of Closing Humanitarian Projects - Matthew Hunt and Jingru Miao3. The Outsider's Role: Ethical Reflections from the Study of International–National Staff Relations in Development and Humanitarian Organisations - Maëlle Noé4. The Moral Motivation of Humanitarian Actors - Katarína Komenská5. Makeshift Humanitarians: Informal Humanitarian Aid Across European Close(d) Borders - Elisa Sandri and Fosco Bugoni6. Amateur Humanitarianism, Social Solidarity and 'Volunteer Tourism' in the EU Refugee 'Crisis' - Jane Freedman 7. La Nouvelle France: Institutionalised Abuse, 'Exception' and Spectacle in the Exiled/Volunteer Relationship at the Franco–British Border - Celeste Cantor-Stephens8. Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict* - Kory L Funk, Diana Rayes, Leonard S Rubenstein, Nermin R Diab, Namrita S Singh, Matthew DeCamp, Wasim Maziak, Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson9. Home and Away: Ethical Issues in Humanitarian Aid to Syrians in Israel - Schlomit Zuckerman, Morshid Farhat and Salman Zarka10. The Emergence of Humanitarian Failure: The Case of Haiti - Jan Wörlein11. Ethical Encounters as a Humanitarian Psychiatrist - Peter Hughes12. One for All, or All for One: The Ethical Implications of Individual Human Rights-based and Public Good-based Frameworks in Emergency Mental Health - Liyam Eloul and Claire F O'Reilly13. Ethics of Cultural Concepts and Conflicts Surrounding Disclosure of Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings - Ayesha Ahmad14. The Invisible Man: The Shrouding of Ethical Issues Related to Sexual Violence Against Men in the Humanitarian Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Vanessa Okito Wedi15. Humanitarian Ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Discussing Dilemmas and Mitigating Moral Distress - Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Carol Devine, John Pringle, Sidney Wong and Philippe Calain16. Stop Missing the Point: Managing Humanitarian Action Well - Caroline Clarinval17. An Ethic of Refusal: The Political Economy of Humanitarianism Under Neoliberal Globalisation - John Pringle and Toby Leon MoorsomAfterword: The Ethics of Compiling a Book on Humanitarian Ethics - James Smith*The chapter 'Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict' is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). You can view the downloadable PDF here.

Dr Ayesha Ahmad is a lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at St George's University of London, and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute for Global Health, University College London. She specialises in gender-based violence and mental health in conflict and humanitarian crises.James Smith is a Research Fellow with the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has worked as a researcher with Médecins Sans Frontières's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH), and as a clinician with the U.K. National Health Service.

Nobody is under the illusion that humanitarian work is easy or convenient. What Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith have achieved in this volume, moreover, is a powerful challenge to the idea that it is unquestionably "right".

• Foreword: Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Hugo SlimForeword: On the Front Lines of Humanitarian Medical Ethics - Vickie Hawkins and Paul McMasterIntroduction: Narrating Humanitarian Action and Ethics - Ayesha Ahmad1. Difficult Decision-making, Compromise, and Moral Distress in Medical Humanitarian Response - James Smith2. Moral Entanglement and the Ethics of Closing Humanitarian Projects - Matthew Hunt and Jingru Miao3. The Outsider's Role: Ethical Reflections from the Study of International–National Staff Relations in Development and Humanitarian Organisations - Maëlle Noé4. The Moral Motivation of Humanitarian Actors - Katarína Komenská5. Makeshift Humanitarians: Informal Humanitarian Aid Across European Close(d) Borders - Elisa Sandri and Fosco Bugoni6. Amateur Humanitarianism, Social Solidarity and 'Volunteer Tourism' in the EU Refugee 'Crisis' - Jane Freedman 7. La Nouvelle France: Institutionalised Abuse, 'Exception' and Spectacle in the Exiled/Volunteer Relationship at the Franco–British Border - Celeste Cantor-Stephens8. Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict* - Kory L Funk, Diana Rayes, Leonard S Rubenstein, Nermin R Diab, Namrita S Singh, Matthew DeCamp, Wasim Maziak, Lara S Ho and W Courtland Robinson9. Home and Away: Ethical Issues in Humanitarian Aid to Syrians in Israel - Schlomit Zuckerman, Morshid Farhat and Salman Zarka10. The Emergence of Humanitarian Failure: The Case of Haiti - Jan Wörlein11. Ethical Encounters as a Humanitarian Psychiatrist - Peter Hughes12. One for All, or All for One: The Ethical Implications of Individual Human Rights-based and Public Good-based Frameworks in Emergency Mental Health - Liyam Eloul and Claire F O'Reilly13. Ethics of Cultural Concepts and Conflicts Surrounding Disclosure of Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings - Ayesha Ahmad14. The Invisible Man: The Shrouding of Ethical Issues Related to Sexual Violence Against Men in the Humanitarian Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Vanessa Okito Wedi15. Humanitarian Ethics in Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders: Discussing Dilemmas and Mitigating Moral Distress - Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Carol Devine, John Pringle, Sidney Wong and Philippe Calain16. Stop Missing the Point: Managing Humanitarian Action Well - Caroline Clarinval17. An Ethic of Refusal: The Political Economy of Humanitarianism Under Neoliberal Globalisation - John Pringle and Toby Leon MoorsomAfterword: The Ethics of Compiling a Book on Humanitarian Ethics - James Smith*The chapter 'Ethical Challenges Among Humanitarian Organisations: Insights from the Response to the Syrian Conflict' is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). You can view the downloadable PDF here.